“So the Pope walks in at once…”
Pope Francis welcomed a star-studded team of comedians to the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Friday – and he only had to get up “at the crack of dawn” to meet them.
“So, we’re going to meet the Pope,” Whoopi Goldberg, 68, said in an Instagram Story shared early in the morning in Rome. “It’s late in the morning, all right, but that’s the time we’re told to come. And I mean, who minds walking on these streets? nobody. It’s beautiful.”
The Oscar winner has met the 87-year-old Pope before. Finally, she revealed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that he had offered her a role in “Sister Act 3” after they met in October 2023.
“I wanted to thank him,” she told host Jimmy Fallon at the time. “I have been trying to meet him for almost 10 years. Every time I say ‘Okay, we’ll do this’ I take some steps and then I can’t do it and they cancel the appearance. But I did really well and had no problems.”
“The View” co-hosts included Fallon, 49, Chris Rock, Mike Birbiglia, Stephen Colbert, Jim Gaffigan, Conan O’Brien and others. At one stage, the entire crowd seemed excited, with their arms outstretched to the Pope, as if he had just told them a humorous shaggy dog story.
In the alternate footage, each megastar shook hands and had alternate conversations with him one by one.
The event was livestreamed via Vatican News, with the Pope praising comedians for their “power to spread peace and smiles” amid global events.
He further added, “You manage to make people smile even when dealing with small problems and incidents.” “You condemn abuse of power. You give voice to forgotten situations. You expose abuses. You point out inappropriate behavior.
“While communication today often generates conflict, you know how to bring together diverse and sometimes opposite realities. How much we need to learn from you!” He concluded. “Please pray with a smile in favor of me, not against!”
61-year-old O’Brien was surprised by this question.
“We’re all looking at each other and thinking, ‘Something’s wrong,'” he said in a video captured on X, first Twitter. “We’re in this beautiful, beautiful place in the Vatican and for some reason, they let comedians in, which is always a mistake.”
Meanwhile, Gaffigan, 57, teased she won the best possible celebration from Pope Francis.
“The Pope told me I’m his favorite comedian,” he joked. “Such an incredible experience. It felt like it was a meeting of all the people who couldn’t behave in church.”
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