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” Pope Francis welcomed a star-studded group of comedians to the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Friday — and they only had to wake up at “the butt crack of dawn” to meet him. “So, we’re on our way over to see the pope,” Whoopi Goldberg, 68, said in an Instagram Story she shared early in the morning in Rome. “It is the butt crack of dawn, okay, but this is the time we’ve been told to come over.
And I mean, who minds walking down these streets? Nobody. It’s beautiful.” The Oscar winner has met the pope, 87, before.
Last month, she revealed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” that she offered him a role in “Sister Act 3” when they met in October 2023. “I wanted to thank him,” she told host Jimmy Fallon at the time. “I’ve been trying to meet up with him for about 10 years.
Every time I say ‘OK, we’ll do it’ I’d step in something and then I couldn’t do it and they’d cancel the appearance. But I stayed really good and I didn’t get in any trouble.” The “View” co-host was joined by Fallon, 49, Chris Rock , Mike Birbiglia, Stephen Colbert, Jim Gaffigan, Conan O’Brien and more.
At one point, the group all looked elated standing in front of the pope with their hands out, as if they just told him a funny joke. In other photos, each star shook hands and had an exchange with him separately. The event was livestreamed by Vatican News, with the pope praising the comedians for their “pow.