Comics Brutally Taunt Trump At Kennedy Center In Historic ‘Resistance’

Comics battered President Donald Trump in the venue he now chairs on Sunday.

In a ceremony to award Conan O’Brien the Mark Twain Prize that will stream May 4 on Netflix, comedians gathered at the Kennedy Center to unleash sharp barbs at the president.

O’Brien’s award was announced by the center before Trump took over and installed himself as the chair to root out perceived “wokeness.” So it was on with the show.

Here are some of the best jokes, culled from Deadline, the New York Times, Washington Post and others.

Sarah Silverman to O’Brien: “I just really miss the days when you were America’s only orange asshole.”

Stephen Colbert: “This is a very different place. Today they announced two board members, Bashar al-Assad and Skeletor.”

Colbert also ate spicy hot wings in a “Hot Ones” segment for O’Brien. “I just want to start by saying, in light of the new leadership at the Kennedy Center, all of these are right wings. And a couple of them are truly insane.”

John Mulaney welcomed viewers to the Kennedy Center, which he said would soon be rechristened “The Roy Cohn Pavilion for Big Strong Men Who Love ‘Cats.’”

Kumail Nanjiani on the Masturbating Bear, a recurring character on O’Brien’s talk show “Late Night”: “This is a fitting introduction to America. Nothing represents America better than an unbelievably powerful predator pleasuring himself on television.”

Will Ferrell griped about having to attend because “I’m supposed to be shutting down the Department of Education.”

Fellow talk show great David Letterman proclaimed late in the ceremony, “In history for all time, this will have been the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, ever.”