Comic Nikki Glaser has revealed she has a “actual worry” of creating political jokes now that Donald Trump is president once more, saying she is afraid of being “doxxed,” getting “demise threats,” and even “detained.”
The Golden Globes host made the feedback on the pink carpet on the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday (March 23), the primary signature occasion on the John F Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts since Trump took over. Glaser joined the likes of Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney, and Will Ferrell to honor Conan O’Brien, who obtained an award for lifetime achievement in comedy.
After returning to the White Home in January, Trump took management of the Kennedy Heart and fired a number of board members chosen by former President Joe Biden. The board then voted for Trump as the brand new chair of the Kennedy Heart.
Forward of the occasion, Glaser informed reporters there is perhaps a number of comedians who joked in regards to the scenario, however she anticipated the main focus to be on O’Brien. She additionally mentioned that with the strain proper now, she thinks twice about making political jokes.
“Like, you simply are scared that you simply’re gonna get doxxed and demise threats or who is aware of the place this leads, like, detained. Truthfully that’s not even like a joke. It’s like an actual worry,” she mentioned, per Deadline.
“So it’s unlucky that that’s true, however I’m not gonna lie and say I don’t take into consideration that typically and go, ‘Oh, god. Can I simply say, I hope all of them know, I could be up on the gallows and say I used to be simply joking. I’m a comic.’ I hope that that’s a protection,” Glaser added.
O’Brien was chosen to obtain the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor earlier than Trump took over as chair. Earlier than issues obtained underway, the latest Oscars host informed reporters, “Nicely, I don’t have any say of what any of my pals are doing.”
There have been at the least a handful of comedians who took pictures at Trump throughout the occasion, together with Silverman, who, per The Guardian, turned to the red-haired O’Brien and mentioned, “I simply actually miss the times while you have been America’s solely orange a**gap.”
Ferrell quipped, “I’m presupposed to be shutting down the Division of Training,” referring to Trump’s dismantling of the Division of Training.
Mulaney, in the meantime, mocked Trump’s mentor, lawyer Roy Cohn, along with the President’s latest reward of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats. “It’s an honour to be right here on the Kennedy Heart or, as will probably be recognized subsequent week, the Roy Cohn Pavilion for Large, Sturdy Males Who Love Cats,” he joked.
Stephen Colbert additionally made an look, joking that two new board members of the Kennedy Heart are “Bashar al-Assad and Skeletor.”
Legendary late-night host David Letterman added, “I’m not a historian, however I imagine that historical past will present within the historical past all the time, this may have been essentially the most entertaining gathering of the resistance, ever.”
Throughout his acceptance speech, O’Brien referenced Trump’s purge of the board, saying, “Because of the individuals who invited me right here a number of months in the past, Deborah Rutter and David Rubenstein. Truthfully, I don’t know why they’re not right here tonight. I misplaced wifi in January. I suppose they’re caught in site visitors.”
