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On March 17, 1984, Billy Crystal gave Saturday Night Live viewers their first taste of his debonair character, Fernando. At the time, Crystal wasn’t yet a cast member, but was instead the episode’s host. The comedian had seen his fame steadily rise thanks to his popular standby career, as well as television roles and (briefly) his own variety show on NBC, The Billy Crystal Comedy Hour. Crystal had previously made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, performing a monologue during a season one episode. Still, this would be his first time hosting, and he brought a character with him...

During an impassioned segment on MSNBC, Donny Deutsch slammed Hollywood and corporate America for their silence amid Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel. “I don’t understand the silence from Hollywood. I don’t understand the silence from corporate America. I don’t understand the silence from the academics. And I don’t understand the silence from so many politicians,” Deutsch said, speaking with anchor Nicolle Wallace. Deutsch, who is Jewish, was previously a host on MSNBC and CNBC. The television personality and political analyst now hosts the podcast “On Brand With Donny Deutsch.” “There is not context here. This is about the slaughtering of...

VIDEONot too long ago hordes of celebrities were gushing over Andrew Cuomo despite the fact that it was already well known at the time that he forced many infected elderly patients into New York nursing homes. However, we need to now overlook how ridiculous those celebs were and... Aw! Who am I kidding? Those idiotic celebs need to be fully exposed for their blind worship of Cuomo and here at the DUmmie FUnnies we are duty bound to reveal just how foolish they looked even though they now probably wish they had just kept their big fat mouths shut about...

Billy Crystal seems like a pretty likable guy. So what the h—- is he doing with someone like Bill Kristol? This. He’s doing this: Bill Kristol @BillKristol NEW: When Bill met Billy! It was a pleasure to join the (misspelled!) @BillyCrystal in making the case for Joe Biden. Here's the video (a 30-sec version will air in FL and elsewhere). Thanks to @robreiner and @PhilRosenthal, and @USJewishDems and @JDAVUSA, for making this happen. Video: https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/10/08/bill-kristols-pro-biden-comedy-routine-with-billy-crystal-is-the-saddest-and-dorkiest-thing-i-have-seen-in-a-long-time-video/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Erdogan was initially on the roster of speakers on the funeral — a list that includes a number of famous names, such as former president Bill Clinton and comedian Billy Crystal. However, on Monday, Ali family spokesman Bob Gunnell had said that two unnamed speakers had been added to the program, meaning that foreign guests Erdogan and King Abdullah II of Jordan would no longer be able to make an address. Gunnell told reporters that the two world leaders had been “gracious and understood.” But there were a number of suggestions that perhaps Erdogan had been removed from the list...

Ted Cruz Again Displays His 'Audiographic' Memory With a Nearly Perfect Re-enactment of a Scene From 'The Princess Bride' How good is the “audiographic” memory of Republican presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz?Cruz demonstrated his impressive skills during a meeting with voters for the taping of a segment on WMUR-TV in New Hampshire Thursday, acting out a scene from one of his favorite movies, “The Princess Bride.”Image source: YouTubeThe re-enactment happened as Cruz sat down in WMUR’s “Candidate Cafe.”Watch Ted Cruz’s performance and note his impressions of Billy Crystal and Carol Kane.GOP candidate Cruz acts out 'Princess Bride' scene (video)Cruz’s...

Billy Crystal Has Had Enough of Gay Storylines Billy Crystal, comedian and one of the first actors to portray a gay character on TV, has had enough of the gay storylines on television.Speaking to an audience at the Television Critics Association press tour, Crystal said: “Sometimes I think, ‘Ah that’s too much for me.’”The comedian played Jodie on Soap from 1977-1981. “It was very difficult at the time,” said Crystal. “Jodie was really the first recurring [gay] character on network television and it was a different time, it was 1977. So, yeah, it was awkward. It was tough.” He spoke...

Hoooo boy. Billy Crystal has angered plenty with some poorly-worded statements he made about the portrayal of gay sex scenes on television. According to The Independent, during a panel on the Television Critics Association this weekend promoting his upcoming FX series The Comedians, Crystal said he can do without all the gratuitous P-in-the-B scenes that TV keeps shoving in his face: Speaking during a panel interview in Pasadena, the actor said: “Sometimes I think: ‘Ah that’s too much for me’. “Sometimes, it’s just pushing it a little too far for my taste and I’m not going to reveal to you...

NewsBusters reported Friday that Oscars host Billy Crystal intended to mock GOP "idiots" during Sunday's awards presentation. Roughly forty-five minutes in, Crystal was true to his word taking a cheap shot at the Republican presidential candidates

Billy Crystal is coming back to host the Oscars. The comedian, who has hosted the show nine times, tweeted the news this afternoon. "Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show," he wrote. Crystal, who last had the job in 2004, takes over after a string of incidents left the show without a host and producer. Brett Ratner dramatically stepped down Tuesday as producer after saying “Rehearsal’s for fags” at a Q&A for “Tower Heist” last week, and then talking to...

[see side-by-side videos in the article] Helen Thomas has been squatting there in the front row of the White House press briefing room all these years and now we discover she doesn’t even really exist. It’s all been a giant practical joke played on America by comedian Billy Crystal. Want proof? Watch these two videos. You’ll be convinced that battle axe reporter Helen Thomas is just another one of Billy Crystal’s crazy characters. In fact, it’s the same character he played in The Princess Bride. Same face. Same voice. Same lunacy. We’re onto you, Crystal. Did you really think you...

LOS ANGELES - Billy Crystal won't be singing his movie parodies at the Oscars in March. Crystal tells Variety that he was asked last week to host, but he had to turn down the job. Crystal's one-man show "700 Sundays" opens in Los Angeles next month, he's going to direct a movie and is writing another book.

Before I start. I am a conservative and have been once since I was a little kid in 1960. I haven’t changed. So, here goes. Poor Harriet! Doesn’t it just make you angry? It sure does me. The idiot conservative elite made a stand just to prove they could. These bunch of hypocrites who go on and on about appointees not getting the right to be voted up or down are now so proud of themselves for doing the same thing. What a group they are: Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Crystal and the rest of...

John Kerry raised about $5 million for his campaign at a couple of events in Los Angeles on Thursday night, the second of which featured performances by Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Billy Crystal and Willie Nelson. Amongst those who contributed in order to attend: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. Crystal "joked" about President Bush, according to multiple media accounts, "I realize that 9/11 is also his SAT scores." The New York Times touted how "the much-heralded highlight was the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond reunion duet, 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers,' which they had not performed...

More and more real life mafia godfathers are seeking help on the psychiatrist's couch, according to new research. Medical experts at the University of Palermo in Sicily say they are following the lead of James Gandolfini in the Sopranos and Robert de Niro in Analyse This. Psychiatrist Girolamo Lo Verso says the mafioso are grappling with mental problems caused by the stress of organised crime. ''They come to discuss food disorders, anxiety, depression and sexual problems they are having," he said. "We know of one case where a Godfather from Trapani in Sicily visited a psychiatrist because he could not...