White Home Confirms Invoice Maher Will Not Obtain the Mark Twain Prize This 12 months [Updated]

UPDATED: The Atlantic is reporting that regardless of an earlier story Friday morning, Invoice Maher will not be this yr’s recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The publication has up to date its story with a remark from White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirming that “That is pretend information. Invoice Maher will NOT be getting this award.”

Maher would have been honored earlier than the Kennedy Heart shuts down for a two-year renovation (that has no relationship in anyway to some other occasions surrounding the Kennedy Heart over the previous yr). The host and comic has undoubtedly been doing comedy for a very long time, as one would hope for the recipient of one in every of comedy’s highest honors. Starting his profession within the Seventies, he hosted the political discuss present Politically Incorrect from 1993-2002, after which he started Actual Time with Invoice Maher, the HBO sequence he nonetheless hosts at this time.

Maher’s choice, as The Atlantic initially noticed, felt like an unlikely one contemplating that like many comedians, Maher isn’t a present favourite of the present presidential administration, has taken management over the Kennedy Heart and its respective packages. Reportedly, Trump did initially approve the choice, however even if final yr Maher did attend a dinner with Trump arrange by Child Rock, simply final month, Trump known as Maher a “extremely overrated LIGHTWEIGHT” on TruthSocial.

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Which means Maher will not have the chance to face up on a stage and inform jokes, persevering with his current declaration that he was quitting stand-up. He would have succeeded Conan O’Brien, who was final yr’s recipient.