Bill Maher Had a Lot to Say About Awards (and UFOs)

Bill Maher Had a Lot to Say About Awards (and UFOs)

This week, Bill Maher was in the news for reasons unrelated to a Real Time episode: he’ll be the recipient of this year’s Mark Twain Prize. That Maher is receiving the award isn’t surprising — in the last five years, the likes of Jon Stewart and Conan O’Brien have also taken to the stage of the Kennedy Center to accept it. What is notable here is that the Trump administration had denied that Maher was receiving the award after The Atlantic initi…