thank you so much this is a tremendous
honor wonderful evening I'd like to
thank the Kennedy Center first of all
for for celebrating me and honoring me
in such a wonderful way and bringing my
loved ones or my family here's is a
super special memorable night and thank
you to all the comedians and came out
and sang and I mean Sam Moore came out
saying and Alabama Shakes was here we
have had a really really really special
special night hasn't been lost on me
that you know usually when people have
evenings like this a person's really
really old when they get these around
they'll let you wait really like one of
the greatest funniest people of all time
was a George Carlin and he received this
Ward award posthumously he's funny in
all of us so to be standing here alive
and looking like myself still just
didn't let you get really old ability
and it was also some confusion about
whether or not it was an award or a
prize and I and actually it's an award
even though they call it a prize it's an
award because usually when there's a
prize there's money involved but I
thought I was gonna get some paper I was
like yo Mark Twain Award Kennedy said
that sound like paper then they told me
yesterday they raised 2.3 million that
was like yeah oh I'm in there then I
came down and they told me that you do
over there is no it's it's a surprise
but it's just there's no money so I
think to clear up the confusion for
future recipients maybe maybe maybe you
don't want to call it the Mark Twain
prize maybe you might want if you don't
want to call it the award maybe you
could call it the Mark Twain surprise
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and the surprise of course being you
ain't getting no money but that still
doesn't diminish how how wonderful this
is a wonderful wonderful thing to be
included with some of my my heroes which
are Pryor and George Carlin and Carl
Reiner and really Tomlin who else got
the bill bill bill has one of these did
you make bill give his back no cuz I
know it was a big outcry from people it
was trying to get bill to give his
trophies back you know you DEP when
anyone should give you trophies back
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taupey back to he should do one show we
just come out and just talk crazy now I
would like to talk to some of the people
who feel that I should give back my jaw
berries
because you may have heard recently that
I allegedly put Pureland people's chakra
I wish somebody would come up to my
house talking about give up the trophy
cause she put the pillar people
chocolate you get up I'm not giving back
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who is Hannibal Buress
first of all Hannibal is a cave man's
name the needle would just come all out
and put pushed over applecart that had
them if I ever see or make this Hannibal
Barisan person I am going to try to kill
this just one show like this just
do one like I said I don't wanna go too
far hard bill but this is a wonderful
night thank you all so much I love
everybody here for coming out and make
me feel so wonderful I love you thank
you so much this is a wonderful
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