King Charles is letting everyone know he’s in on the joke!
04.12.2023 - 09:19 / deadline.com
Robert Ne Niro took the stage at the Kennedy Center on Sunday and, looking out at the balcony box where honoree was sitting, told him of his career, “I had no idea you had done so much. And you’ve done it all is such a relatively short amount of time. You’re only 75. That means you’re just about six years away from being the perfect age to be elected president.”
The joke got some of the biggest audience cheers of the night — and a laugh from President Joe Biden, 81, embarking on a re-election campaign where his chronological advantage is, based on polls, top of mind to voters and the source of some doubts.
It was also one of a few references to age throughout Sunday evening’s Kennedy Center Honors which, in addition to Crystal, honored opera singer Renée Fleming, hip hop star and actress Queen Latifah, singer Dionne Warwick and singer-songwriter Barry Gibb.
The event, which will air on CBS on Dec. 27, regularly draws the highest echelon’s of D.C.’s power structure, not just the president and first lady but Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Sonia Sotomayor (also getting many cheers), Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell, in addition to network news anchors, senators and representatives as well as governors and ambassadors.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters that, amazingly enough, this was his first time attending the ceremony — largely to support fellow New Yorker Crystal. “His show on Broadway — he talked about his father and it reminded me of my father, because I never got to see my father because he was working overtime,” Schumer said.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that this was probably her 30th. The new House speaker, Mike Johnson, did not
King Charles is letting everyone know he’s in on the joke!
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