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10-22-2018, 04:49 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/julia-louis-dreyfus-accepts-the-twain-prize-anybody-would-be-lucky-to-be-part-of-a-night-like-this-honoring-someone-like-me/2018/10/21/af445ef0-d309-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html
"When Mark Twain first emailed me about the Mark Twain prize, I have to admit I totally misunderstood," the Veep and Seinfeld star, the sixth woman to receive the Mark Twain prize, said after a night devoted to her at the Kennedy Center. "I thought I was being asked to honor someone else. What a hassle. I have to go all the way to Washington, D.C., and make up flattering things to say about how funny someone else is. And then I realized. It’s me. I get the prize, and my attitude about the whole thing changed. It really did. This is a great night, a great honor. Anybody would be lucky to be part of a night like this honoring someone like me.” Throughout the night, which will be broadcast on PBS on Nov. 19, Louis-Dreyfus was feted and roasted (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/10/22/julia-louis-dreyfus-mark-twain-prize/1725196002/) by comedies biggest names, from former co-star Jerry Seinfeld to Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Kumail Nanjiani, Stephen Colbert, Lisa Kudrow, Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Larry David, who worked with Louis-Dreyfus on SNL and tapped her for Seinfeld, joked about her recent cancer battle via video. "I want to congratulate Julia for this unbelievably prestigious award," the David said. "But I gotta say, the lengths that she went through to get it, frankly I was a little surprised... that whole cancer thing? Cancer? Honestly, I gotta take my hat off to her. What a scam." Jerry Seinfeld, meanwhile, credited Louis-Dreyfus for making his career (https://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/tv/2018/10/22/seinfeld-louis-dreyfus-she-made-my-career/38235161/). “I could not get enough of her,” Seinfeld said of their partnership on screen. “That whole time, nine years, I was not acting. I couldn’t.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/arts/julia-louis-dreyfus-mark-twain-award.html)
ALSO:
Louis-Dreyfus used her acceptance speech to take a shot at U.S. Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh (https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/412473-julia-louis-dreyfus-knocks-kavanaugh-while-accepting-mark-twain)
Will PBS censor Louis-Dreyfus' Trump-bashing and Kavanaugh comments? (https://deadline.com/2018/10/julia-louis-dreyfus-mocks-donald-trump-mark-twain-prize-christine-blasey-ford-metoo-bill-cosby-1202486969/)
"When Mark Twain first emailed me about the Mark Twain prize, I have to admit I totally misunderstood," the Veep and Seinfeld star, the sixth woman to receive the Mark Twain prize, said after a night devoted to her at the Kennedy Center. "I thought I was being asked to honor someone else. What a hassle. I have to go all the way to Washington, D.C., and make up flattering things to say about how funny someone else is. And then I realized. It’s me. I get the prize, and my attitude about the whole thing changed. It really did. This is a great night, a great honor. Anybody would be lucky to be part of a night like this honoring someone like me.” Throughout the night, which will be broadcast on PBS on Nov. 19, Louis-Dreyfus was feted and roasted (https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/10/22/julia-louis-dreyfus-mark-twain-prize/1725196002/) by comedies biggest names, from former co-star Jerry Seinfeld to Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, Kumail Nanjiani, Stephen Colbert, Lisa Kudrow, Broad City's Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer. Larry David, who worked with Louis-Dreyfus on SNL and tapped her for Seinfeld, joked about her recent cancer battle via video. "I want to congratulate Julia for this unbelievably prestigious award," the David said. "But I gotta say, the lengths that she went through to get it, frankly I was a little surprised... that whole cancer thing? Cancer? Honestly, I gotta take my hat off to her. What a scam." Jerry Seinfeld, meanwhile, credited Louis-Dreyfus for making his career (https://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/tv/2018/10/22/seinfeld-louis-dreyfus-she-made-my-career/38235161/). “I could not get enough of her,” Seinfeld said of their partnership on screen. “That whole time, nine years, I was not acting. I couldn’t.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/arts/julia-louis-dreyfus-mark-twain-award.html)
ALSO:
Louis-Dreyfus used her acceptance speech to take a shot at U.S. Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh (https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/412473-julia-louis-dreyfus-knocks-kavanaugh-while-accepting-mark-twain)
Will PBS censor Louis-Dreyfus' Trump-bashing and Kavanaugh comments? (https://deadline.com/2018/10/julia-louis-dreyfus-mocks-donald-trump-mark-twain-prize-christine-blasey-ford-metoo-bill-cosby-1202486969/)