Legendary actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke made history by winning the award Daytime Emmy Award 2024 for Best Guest Performance as Timothy Robicheaux in the Peacock’s Daily Drama Series “Days of Our Lives.”

At 98, he became the oldest winner of the awards, which were held Friday night at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.

“I don’t believe that. I feel like a nighttime TV spy,” he said on stage at the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards. “I am 98 years old. Can you believe it? This is truly the culmination of an 80-year career. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!” completed.

The star, who was honored with the Kennedy Prize in 2021, said he had a “great time” on “Days,” noting that during a dramatic sequence he started laughing so hard that filming “stopped.”

The audience gave him a standing ovation as the actor used a cane to reach the stage, accompanied by his wife, Arlene, who held the award.

“I brought this lady on stage with me because she is the love of my life but also because she was in the series, she was the police officer who arrested me”he added.

According to the AP, producer Norman Lear was 100 when he received his final Primetime Emmy nomination in 2022 and passed away the following year.

This year’s nomination for Van Dyke, who has received four Primetime Emmys, including three in the 1960s for his classic sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” was among last year’s winner Alley Mills of “General Hospital,” to Australian actor Guy Pearce of Amazon Freevee ‘Neighbours’, Linden Ashby of ‘The Young and the Restless’ and Ashley Jones of ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’.