There was consternation in the upper echelons of the comedy world after Adam Sandler’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony was stripped of political jokes.
David Spade was among the former top “Saturday Night Live” stars at the awards show.We’re told Carvey impersonated the Donald, and made jokes about Nancy Pelosi — who was in the audience — but those jokes, too, disappeared.
Meanwhile, we’re told “Saturday Night Live” legend Spade cracked that, because of the “woke police” the one American humorist who definitely wouldn’t win a Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2023 would be Mark Twain himself. But CNN told Page Six that the jokes were just cut for time, so that the live show could be slashed by an hour to fit into its broadcast slot.Meanwhile, reps for the the Kennedy Center told us, “The Kennedy Center and our own producers from [production company] Done+Dusted are the sole decision-makers for what is included in both the live show and the final broadcast — not CNN.”Jennifer Aniston has starred with Sandler in three films.
CNN is in the midst of a tricky overhaul by new president Chris Licht, who is reportedly trying to make the network less partisan and branching out beyond the news.
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