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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Billy Crystal and Queen Latifah receive Kennedy Center Honors
Caption: Billy Crystal and Queen Latifah, receive Kennedy Center Honors. The comedian and rapper/actress received the annual honours alongside opera soprano Renée Fleming, Bee Gees star Barry Gibb and singer Dionne Warwick. The honourees sat in the audience alongside U.S. President Joe Biden at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C. while their peers lauded their work. During the segment honouring Crystal, Robert De Niro appeared on stage and scored one of the night's biggest laughs with his joke about President Biden's age. "I had no idea you had done so much. And you've done it all in 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,", Robert De Niro / 46th Kennedy Center Honors at The Kennedy Center. Biden, 81, took the jibe in good humour and waved from the balcony. Crystal was also honoured with appearances from Lin-Manuel Miranda, who performed a parody of the comedian's Oscars medleys, Whoopi Goldberg, and his When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and co-star Meg Ryan. Elsewhere during the gala event, Latifah was honoured by Kerry Washington, Missy Elliott and The Clark Sisters and Fleming was feted by Christine Baranski, Tituss Burgess, Susan Graham and Sigourney Weaver. Warwick's segment featured appearances from Clive Davis and Herbie Hancock and performances by Cynthia Erivo and Mickey Guyton. The night concluded with a celebration of Gibb, with Little Big Town, Michael Bublé and Ben Platt singing Lonely Days, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart and Nights on Broadway, respectively. The show will be broadcast in the U.S. on 27 December. THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
Keywords: Billy Crystal,Queen Latifah,Renee Fleming,Barry Gibb,Dionne Warwick,Kennedy Center Honors,Honourees,Honorees,Bee Gees,Actor,President,Joe Biden,Kennedy Center Opera House,Washington D.C.,Gala,Ceremony,Robert De Niro
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