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..."