{"id":118542,"date":"2024-10-02T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/02\/elton-john-performs-jokes-about-his-health-at-new-york-premiere-of-doc-elton-john-never-too-late\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:01:15","slug":"elton-john-performs-jokes-about-his-health-at-new-york-premiere-of-doc-elton-john-never-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/02\/elton-john-performs-jokes-about-his-health-at-new-york-premiere-of-doc-elton-john-never-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John performs, jokes about his health, at New York premiere of doc &#8216;Elton John: Never Too Late&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-02\/M_EltonJohnNeverTooLate_082724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Courtesy of Disney+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Elton John<\/strong> made an appearance at the New York Film Festival premiere of his upcoming Disney+ documentary,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Elton John: Never Too Late <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Tuesday<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">where he treated the crowd to a performance of his classic \u201cTiny Dancer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/elton-john-jokes-not-much-of-me-left-listing-missing-organs-documentary-premiere-8721741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\">People<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\"> <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">reports that\u00a0while speaking to the audience after the screening, Elton joked about\u00a0his many health ailments over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;To be honest with you, there&#8217;s not much of me left. I don&#8217;t have tonsils, adenoids or an appendix. I don&#8217;t have a prostate,\u201d he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a right hip or a left knee or a right knee. In fact, the only thing left to me is my left hip. But I\u2019m still here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He went on to thank his family \u2014 husband <strong>David Furnish<\/strong>, who co-directed the film with <strong>RJ Cutler<\/strong>, and his two sons,\u00a0<strong>Zachary<\/strong> and <strong>Elijah<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 \u201cfor making me the happiest man in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;I found complete and utter happiness and bliss when I met David and when I had my children, our children. And it satisfied me so much,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never felt happiness like I have now.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Elton John: Never Too Late<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> details Elton\u2019s extraordinary music career and complicated personal life,\u00a0and follows the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer as he prepares\u00a0for his final concert in North America at LA&#8217;s Dodger Stadium. It\u2019s set to premiere Dec. 13 on Disney+.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Disney+ Elton John made an appearance at the New York Film Festival premiere of his upcoming Disney+ documentary,\u00a0Elton John: Never Too Late Tuesday,\u00a0where he treated the crowd to a performance of his classic \u201cTiny Dancer.\u201d People reports that\u00a0while speaking to the audience after the screening, Elton joked about\u00a0his<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/02\/elton-john-performs-jokes-about-his-health-at-new-york-premiere-of-doc-elton-john-never-too-late\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}