Kennedy Center Honors – The Comic's Comic

2017 Kennedy Center honoree Norman Lear will skip White House reception because of Trump

August 4, 2017August 5, 2017

Norman Lear is honored that The Kennedy Center has chosen to honor him — alongside Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Lionel Richie, and Carmen de Lavallade — for the center’s annual celebration of the arts in 2017. But Lear will skip the traditional pre-show reception at The White House. Thanks, Trump. …

Upon receiving Kennedy Center Honors, a rare interview with David Letterman

December 24, 2012December 27, 20121

Finding a sincere, sit-down interview with David Letterman is about as rare as finding one with the late Johnny Carson. Which, if you follow Letterman’s career as closely as he has followed Carson’s, makes perfect sense. Almost. But this year, the Kennedy Center Honors have honored David Letterman — the …