Billy Crystal Secretly Met with a U.S. Ambassador Before His Midnight Train to Moscow Shows

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • Billy Crystal talks about being cut right before the very first Saturday Night Live, finding relatives he didn't know about while traveling for Midnight Train to Moscow and learning Russian for his stand-up performance.
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Комментарии • 82

  • @dazman1972
    @dazman1972 Месяц назад +34

    Nice of Billy to stop off for a chat in the middle of a diamond heist

  • @snowsore
    @snowsore Месяц назад +106

    I bet Billy would be brilliant next to Nathan Lane in Cicada, Cicada

    • @leenthegirl
      @leenthegirl Месяц назад +5

      Hahaha yes

    • @alexanderbrierley1208
      @alexanderbrierley1208 Месяц назад +6

      How this comment wasn’t mentioned in #corrections is beyond me - pure brilliance!!!!

    • @Meggs23
      @Meggs23 Месяц назад +2

      YES!

    • @futuresammy
      @futuresammy Месяц назад +1

      ohmygosh he would be an exceptional addition to the cast, yesssssss

    • @ScapegoatLoveWarrior
      @ScapegoatLoveWarrior Месяц назад

      I must rewatch it and envision! I ❤️ this man.

  • @dianeblaylock6697
    @dianeblaylock6697 Месяц назад +3

    Billy Crystal is truly a Legend I'd love to just sit down and hear about his life history btw "Before" is EXCELLENT

    • @amethystpeony
      @amethystpeony Месяц назад +2

      You can listen to his audiobook!
      Also, totally agree on "Before".

    • @dianeblaylock6697
      @dianeblaylock6697 Месяц назад

      @amyjackson8725 Didn't know he had one thank you for the suggestion will definitely check it out.

    • @Laudon1228
      @Laudon1228 26 дней назад

      I met Mr. Gorbachev in the mid-90s, just to shake his hand. Such warm, sad eyes.
      The world would be a lot better off today if they had kept Gorbachev in office when they dissolved the Soviet Union. Maybe we wouldn’t be living in a world shaped by a psychopath who whacks off to pictures of Stalin.

    • @senoritaperdida
      @senoritaperdida 22 дня назад

      Yes! I love Billy Crystal. Please don’t ever tell me anything bad about him….

  • @lashendawest7509
    @lashendawest7509 Месяц назад +32

    We love billy crystal and seth meyers

    • @nickpaine
      @nickpaine Месяц назад +1

      Hard to believe Crystal was cut from snl

    • @sandraandrews9907
      @sandraandrews9907 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@nickpaine First time around, he didn't have a two-minute segment (a story that he told). That was why he didn't get on. BUT, he (with Michael McKean & Martin Short) got one-year contracts as SNL regulars. Happy ending all around.

  • @laurastrom9857
    @laurastrom9857 Месяц назад +2

    My mom would shout up the stairs, “it’s BELOW zero” that and the snow covering the fence tops as far as the eye could see. Ahh, midstate NY.

  • @Litespeedultimate
    @Litespeedultimate Месяц назад +33

    The best storyteller

    • @mandcbruce
      @mandcbruce Месяц назад +2

      I swear to God, his stories get better the older he gets.

    • @florete2310
      @florete2310 Месяц назад

      That's so true. He's always a great guest. Loved him on Conan's the other day❤

  • @tejaswoman
    @tejaswoman Месяц назад +9

    You hooked me with that teaser title, as a fan of _Midnight Train to Moscow_ - Started to save this to watch later, but when I saw the truncated title, I knew I had to watch it now to see if I was right that this would be about _Midnight Train to Moscow_ ! Not nearly enough people have seen that special. I bought it on VHS in 1990 - 91 and used it as part of a unit on humor in my American Literature course as a first-year teacher. Such a delightful man and always makes me think of my dear departed daddy, who enjoyed him immensely and had much in common with him.

  • @mgpriester
    @mgpriester Месяц назад +4

    Billy channeled his inner Robin Williams for the French poodle bit.

  • @ecamp6360
    @ecamp6360 Месяц назад +7

    Its amazing that we remember Billy for "mahvelous" but have no idea who he was spoofing.

    • @stephanieames66
      @stephanieames66 Месяц назад +1

      Ricardo Montelban(sp).

    • @ecamp6360
      @ecamp6360 Месяц назад

      @stephanieames66 Pretty sure it was Fernando Lamas? But u might be right. Did he also talk about "...rich Corinthhhhian leather...?

    • @stephanieames66
      @stephanieames66 Месяц назад

      @@ecamp6360 You are most likely right. You get to an age and names just pop into your head, right or wrong!!

    • @ecamp6360
      @ecamp6360 Месяц назад

      @stephanieames66 I'm not even sure what Fernando Lamas was famous for, other than being spoofed by Billy, or maybe his son Lorenzo, who again, not sure who he was either. All I remember about Lorenzo is that he married some tacky Playboy model.

  • @Minimeowzilla
    @Minimeowzilla Месяц назад +1

    wow did not know about this special! How things have and haven't changed

  • @AWAKEGRAYWOLFE
    @AWAKEGRAYWOLFE Месяц назад +20

    I’d give anything to meet Billy Crystal, he is absolutely EVERYONE I grew up with!! , and loved, living in NC now I feel he’s only human alive who knows me 😂

  • @StephanieJeanne
    @StephanieJeanne Месяц назад +9

    I love Billy!! He is so hilarious!

  • @florete2310
    @florete2310 Месяц назад

    5:50 Not so fast, Billy😂.... Although, personally, I would applaud each and every one of the eighties. All ten of them would deserve a nice round of applause. It was a great time to grow up in. ❤ 80's.

  • @rhinoman1984
    @rhinoman1984 Месяц назад +3

    there's this clip of Billy I've ben trying to find of him at Comic Relief playing a homeless disabled vet. It was really good and I can't remember from which one, I just remember it was during the early nineties because he makes a reference to George Bush Sr.

  • @PhillUpNorth
    @PhillUpNorth Месяц назад +10

    Crystal Seth... Very addictive.

  • @ellencourtney7187
    @ellencourtney7187 Месяц назад +13

    Love him

  • @KaarenAllynFOMO
    @KaarenAllynFOMO Месяц назад

    National Treasure I first fell in love with oil Soap OMG so friggin hilarious. Always a superstar.

    • @gerrydooley951
      @gerrydooley951 Месяц назад

      already too many national treasures no room for little crystal

  • @mathewbainbridge9508
    @mathewbainbridge9508 Месяц назад +1

    I would love to see Billy do a season of Only Murders in the Building!

  • @HelpfulFriend
    @HelpfulFriend Месяц назад +18

    Only Murders in the Building guest star ? Could happen.

  • @abarfriedrich5027
    @abarfriedrich5027 Месяц назад +2

    Edit: Waving to.... - No difference, I miss them 😢😢

  • @christopherdelaney6263
    @christopherdelaney6263 Месяц назад +9

    Norman... Hellloooooo?
    Billy is still a comedy genius.
    \mL

  • @annestewart5741
    @annestewart5741 Месяц назад

    I kinda thought Billy might've blocked the freezing cold parts of his childhood. Right, Seth? (I got yer back! 😉👍👍)

  • @MsIngPeaces
    @MsIngPeaces Месяц назад +3

    I’m really enjoying his new show Before!

  • @conduit89
    @conduit89 Месяц назад

    Will Ferrell received the Mark Twain prize. Wow Seth.

  • @imneonim
    @imneonim Месяц назад +1

    Billy Crystal acknowledging the absence of 8G band 😢

  • @Gryzor88
    @Gryzor88 Месяц назад +9

    The title U.S. ambassador has no weight to it whatsoever, because Kimberly Gargoyle is one too😅

  • @Kane5Cats-ME
    @Kane5Cats-ME Месяц назад +3

    LOVED Midnight Train to Moscow! "If you're going, take a jacket."
    Funny and fascinating. Probably the first all-Billy stand-up I ever saw...and it wasn't even fully stand-up. The STORIES just sucked me in.

  • @abarfriedrich5027
    @abarfriedrich5027 Месяц назад +3

    Waiting for the Band 🫣 8G, I miss you guys 😢

  • @ScapegoatLoveWarrior
    @ScapegoatLoveWarrior Месяц назад

    I didn't know Friz' had been permanently quarantined! (Surely Andy was involved. Hope everything's okay w/that.) These smoking apartment dogs ARE too French! ❤ you both so dearly

  • @BrendanWeinhold
    @BrendanWeinhold Месяц назад +2

    Billy Crystal!

  • @justincastillogayray
    @justincastillogayray Месяц назад

    Billy should see the Magnadoodle. Who was the ambassador then?

  • @DOSkywalkR
    @DOSkywalkR Месяц назад +2

    Crazy that he's 76, besides the grey hair he still looks like in America's Sweethearts from 2001 😮

  • @chriscrai
    @chriscrai Месяц назад

    "Small Apartments" is one of my favorite movies.

  • @Meggs23
    @Meggs23 Месяц назад

    Billy Crystal GOAT ♥

  • @BeeWhistler
    @BeeWhistler Месяц назад

    I wouldn’t say no one has done it before… Harpo Marx went to the Soviet Union in the 30s and did shows. Different kind of comedy, of course, but it’s similar.

  • @tejaswoman
    @tejaswoman Месяц назад

    Chihuahuas are some of the only dogs were you genuinely _do_ need to dress them if you're going to live anywhere there's a bit of a chill.

  • @alexaales7937
    @alexaales7937 Месяц назад +1

    yeah Billy, please rescue a dog! and please dont make fun of people telling you to get a rescue cause unfortunately the us is euthanizing dogs left and right. i am glad to live in a country where there are NO kill shelters!

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Месяц назад +5

    The French, right?

  • @ReneeKadlubek
    @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

    That was great. Kept me thinking... someone knows that I am alive and how unusual this is.

  • @mzunnurain
    @mzunnurain Месяц назад +7

    Get a cat. No walking, no barking, low maintenance.

  • @SteampunkALIEN
    @SteampunkALIEN Месяц назад

    God ! I'm so happy he's still alive ! 😆
    So many great people are dead...
    "YES PAP ! IT'S GOOD THAT YOU'RE ALIVE PAP !
    REMEMBER ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DEAD PAP ???"

  • @Sisteryoda1440
    @Sisteryoda1440 Месяц назад

    I heard a band. I thought the band was canceled?

  • @ReneeKadlubek
    @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

    It was essential to get me here and keep me here given what was going on and all the lies!

  • @ReneeKadlubek
    @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

    I can remediate and rehab anywhere. I dont want to go somewhere to do snail pace or games anything

    • @ReneeKadlubek
      @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

      No start stop. None of that. Whatever is next needs to be what is next.

  • @ReneeKadlubek
    @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

    I dont remember a lot of 2014-2018 and 1/2 of 2018-2019.

  • @diehardWNBA.fan.since.May.2024
    @diehardWNBA.fan.since.May.2024 Месяц назад

    Billy must have run out of glue for his hairpiece.

  • @mooo6747
    @mooo6747 Месяц назад

    WaiW

  • @ReneeKadlubek
    @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

    I enjoy ppl like that sometimes but why was I not allowed to have unaltered books, opportunities, and similarly educated similarly goal oriented peers?

  • @ksrt2654
    @ksrt2654 Месяц назад

    I’ve actually always hated that Seth doesn’t have a band.

  • @ReneeKadlubek
    @ReneeKadlubek Месяц назад

    Why was I at a co ed breeding farm? It was a hospital or no? What was that? Why all these non lawyer types who were falling asleep and spilling their coffee? Not judging just saying if it was deliberate and that is a long time to not be able to practice my sport due to decisions others are making for me without my knowledge or consent.

  • @wraith_youtube
    @wraith_youtube Месяц назад +1

    Is this guy supposed t be a comedien?

    • @ZachsMind
      @ZachsMind Месяц назад +2

      IDK are you supposed to be carbon based life? I'm asking for a friend.

  • @isabellaflores1643
    @isabellaflores1643 Месяц назад

    Love that he's always talking abt Andy

  • @HardlyCoping
    @HardlyCoping Месяц назад +2

    He turned into Don Rickles & Lewis Black. Fascinating.