Chinese media have dubbed him "the savior of cross talk" for attracting young and middle-aged audience members to the aging cross talk crowd.
His mainly lower-middle-class, middle-aged audience listens with rapt attention.
Others will be less familiar to the mainly middle-aged audience.
The heavily interracial, mostly middle-aged audience responded with waves of adoration.
By the time she reached the chorus, the middle-aged audience in the sold-out Music Hall was singing along.
It is still fresh in the memories of middle-aged audience members, many of whom doubtless recall the show's era with at least a tinge of embarrassment.
Middle-aged audience members who have been rattled by seeing rock idols of their youth transformed into Madame Tussaud-ish creatures will receive no similar shock here.
BBC1 is aiming to air more shows for older viewers, in a bid to reflect the channel's late middle-aged audience.
His joke allowed the tuxedoed, evening-gowned, middle-aged audience at the Washington Hilton to feel, for a precious moment, hip.
Buoyed by successive opinion polls showing growing support, Salmond taunted Cameron from his rostrum: "If at any point David Cameron walks in, I am available for this debate," he said, to chuckles from the largely middle-aged audience.
"Sway, you buggers!" he commands as a middle-aged audience recreate SAW mania, before he dons spectacles and feigns amazement at the sights – including two ladies wearing cardboard cut-out Astley masks.
