(UPI) — Stand-up comedian, Real Time host and Club Random podcaster Bill Maher is to receive the The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’ Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on June 28 in Washington, D.C.
“For nearly three decades, the Mark Twain Prize has celebrated some of the greatest minds in comedy,” Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center’s vice president of public relations, said in a press release Thursday.
“For even longer, Bill has been influencing American discourse — one politically incorrect joke at a time,” she added.
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“Thank you to the Mark Twain people: I just had the award explained to me, and apparently it’s like an Emmy, except I win,” Maher said in a statement. “I’d just like to say that it is indeed humbling to get anything named for a man who’s been thrown out of as many school libraries
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