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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:39 PM Oct 8

Dick Van Dyke jokes about 100th birthday: 'It'd be funny if I didn't make it'

Dick Van Dyke is maintaining his signature wit ahead of a milestone birthday.

The "Mary Poppins" star, 99, cracked a dark joke about his upcoming 100th birthday while attending a Vandy High Tea event in Malibu, California, on Oct. 5, according to People magazine.

"I'm not officially a hundred until December," he noted, per the outlet. "Two months. Two months. It'd be funny if I didn't make it."

Van Dyke attended the event, which raised money for the Van Dyke Endowment of the Arts and Dick Van Dyke Museum, alongside his wife, Arlene. When a fan asked him his secret to looking young, he pointed to his wife and said the secret was "right here beside me," according to a video from the event shared on Instagram.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/dick-van-dyke-jokes-about-100th-birthday-it-d-be-funny-if-i-didn-t-make-it/ar-AA1O2i4u

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Dick Van Dyke jokes about 100th birthday: 'It'd be funny if I didn't make it' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 8 OP
Dick was a big part of "The good old days" I wish him well. Paper Roses Oct 8 #1
Class act, great entertainer. Midnight Writer Oct 8 #2
Betty White probably thought the same thing - and didn't make it. chicoescuela Oct 8 #3
Although 99.95 years was quite a nice run for Betty! Zambero Oct 8 #4
she missed it by 16 days Celerity Oct 8 #5

Paper Roses

(7,575 posts)
1. Dick was a big part of "The good old days" I wish him well.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 06:48 PM
Oct 8

During his time in the public eye, he brought us laughs, smiles, admiration.
Those days are gone but I am so glad Dick is still around to bring back memories.

Celerity

(52,537 posts)
5. she missed it by 16 days
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 08:01 PM
Oct 8


you legally turn the next age in years on the day before your birthday

she would have turned 100 years old on January 16th, 2022
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