No, we shouldn’t waste time fretting about Billy Crystal’s Yiddish scat routine
Cheer up, says a cast member of ‘Mr. Saturday Night,’ it’s a joke
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Theater Billy Crystal’s fake Yiddish was a Jewish standout at the Tonys — but how should Jews feel about it?
The shtick was familiar and fun, but did it reduce the mameloshn to a punchline?
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Culture The Tony 2022 nominees rain on Beanie Feldstein’s parade – but give us a parade of many Jewish faces
Billy Crystal, a Bob Dylan musical and a play about Jewish bankers are among the nominees
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The Schmooze Billy Crystal Is 70, Thriving, And Headed To Broadway
The man behind some of your favorite film roles isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty. Billy Crystal is receiving one of Hollywood’s highest honors — he’s set to make an imprint of his hands and feet outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 12, Variety reports. Alongside the ceremony will…
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The Schmooze Billy Crystal Plays A Rabbi Who Feels ‘Like A Foreskin’ In This Extremely Jewish Sex Comedy
In the beginning, the Torah says the earth was “tohu vavohu” — a phrase that translates to something like “chaos and futility.” Billy Crystal appearing as a Rabbi in a sex comedy starring a mostly Jewish cast plus the star of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” must be the opposite of tohu vavohu. The Jewish pop…
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The Schmooze Billy Crystal Sneezed So Hard He Tore A Rib Muscle
Small, tall, fat, thin — the human body is a miracle no matter what it looks like. Without our bodies, we would just be souls drifting in the wind, incapable of hiking up a mountain or scrolling through Instagram on our iPhones. But sometimes these miracles can be more trouble than they’re worth, as Billy…
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The Schmooze Here’s What Happened When Billy Crystal Golfed with Donald Trump and Bill Clinton
Donald Trump, Billy Crystal, Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg all walk onto a golf course… Nope, that’s not the start of a joke. There was actually a time when those five men hung out—and Jimmy Kimmel has photographic evidence. “I want to ask you about a photo,” Kimmel said to Crystal during a…
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The Schmooze Billy Crystal Roasts Donald Trump at Star-Studded Clinton Fundraiser
On Monday night, the stars of Broadway and Hollywood crammed into one midtown New York theater to headline a benefit concert for Hillary Clinton. Predictably enough, many Jews ended up in the show, from Joel Grey of “Cabret and “Chicago” fame, to Matthew Broderick of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” to the queen herself, Barbra Streisand….
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