WATCH: President Joe Biden celebrated artists including Bette Midler, Joni Mitchell and Lorne Michaels at the Kennedy Center Honors. Referring to Michaels, Biden joked that the 'Saturday Night Live' creator was ‘trying out seven guys to play me’
Singer Justino Díaz and Motown founder Berry Gordy rounded out the group of artists selected by the Kennedy Center for top honors this year at a show that had been upended by politics and the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It is quite nice, very nice, to see the presidential box once again being occupied," comedian David Letterman said at the beginning of the show. The crowd rose in a standing ovation. Michaels, also a native of Canada, is the creator and executive producer of the long-running NBC sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live.""If you can't laugh at yourself, we're in real trouble, and you make me laugh at myself a lot," Biden said during his remarks at the White House, referring to Michaels. Current and former SNL cast members lauded and roasted the producer during the show and singer Paul Simon sang "America.
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