New Old Rules: White House Says Bill Maher Getting Mark Twain Prize Is “Literally Fake News”

The Trump management insists Bill Maher will not beryllium receiving nan prestigious Mark Twain Award for American Humor.

“This is clone news,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Friday arsenic reports circulated nan Real Time big was going to entering nan 28-year-old pantheon of comedy. “Bill Maher will NOT beryllium getting this award.”

“Literally FAKE NEWS,” proclaimed White House Communications head Steven Cheung today.

Handed retired by nan Kennedy Center (which nan MAGA crowd likes to telephone a different name), nan Mark Twain Award, has induced nan exhalted likes of Richard Pryor, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin and Eddie Murphy successful nan decades since it was first introduced successful 1998. At for now, and whitethorn not until 2029 astatine nan earliest, Maher will not beryllium joining nan exalted group. which besides has rewarded Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Carol Burnett and David Letterman.

Mel Brooks and nan precocious Robin Williams refused nan Award

Reps for HBO, which shows Real Time, and Netflix, which shows nan Mark Twain Award presentation, did not respond to petition from Deadline for remark connected Maher getting and not getting nan prize.

Perhaps nan comedian will reside it connected nan latest version of Real Tome tonight, arsenic it is nan show is recorded conscionable hours earlier its precocious nighttime airing.

And, of course, this is persona;

Still, unsurprisingly beyond a meal detente facilitated by Kid Rock a twelvemonth ago, Maher and Trump person had a tempestuous narration for complete a decade.

In nan past fewer weeks it has flared up again, pinch POTUS posting precocious past monthof Maher: “it was a full discarded of time for maine to person this naughty astatine nan White House.” On his February 21 show, Maher said: “it’s truthful funny, because I sewage truthful overmuch crap from nan near for reporting honestly that successful person, he was very different, very nice, very gracious. And past he says, ‘No, you were scared.’ I’m for illustration nan Democrats pinch an election, I conscionable can’t win.”

Boys will beryllium boys, and return their shot location pinch them erstwhile they want to.