2021 Kennedy Center Honorees include Garth Brooks and Debbie Allen - NPR

Clockwise from upper left: Debbie Allen, Garth Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Baez and Midori Goto.

Clockwise from upper left: Debbie Allen, Garth Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Joan Baez and Midori Goto.

The annual Kennedy Center Honorees have been announced: choreographer, and actress Debbie Allen; singer-songwriter and activist Joan Baez; country singer-songwriter Garth Brooks; violinist Midori; and actor Dick Van Dyke.

Master of pratfalls, goofy facial expressions and other forms of physical humor, 95 year old Dick Van Dyke danced on rooftops in Mary Poppins, tripped over the ottoman on The Dick Van Dyke Show and wise-cracked with his fellow security guards in the Night At the Museum movies "with a charm that has made him one of the most cherished performers in show business history, says Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter

To join the "illustrious group" of just over 200 artists who've received Kennedy Center Honors, says Van Dyke in a statement, "is the thrill of my life."

The Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast June 6, on CBS