Michael Keaton Returns as Batman at Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Event

Michael Keaton, who stepped back into Batman in The Flash and the scrapped Batgirl movie, was honored at Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals as this year’s Man of the Year. A video of the presentation shows him accepting the pudding pot at Farkas Hall and joining in the evening’s playful proceedings.

During a segment titled "Salooney Tunes," Keaton was ribbed for his lack of Academy Awards and a Bat-Signal appeared on the wall above him. He was fitted with a deliberately low-budget cape and cowl and staged a strange sword-fight with an Oscar statuette and a gold morph-suit adversary.

He also delivered stand-up gags that made Boston the butt of the jokes and wore a McDonald’s uniform for a sketch tied to his portrayal of Ray Kroc in The Founder. The night was a lighthearted contrast to the Academy Awards, where he previously shared a memorable moment with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.

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