Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as

always for clicking and listening along. I am absolutely thrilled to bring you my conversation

this week with a man who truly needs no introduction. He is a legend in Hollywood. He is a legend in comedy.

He is Billy Crystal.

I will just give you a little background about our location.

Sometimes when we do these interviews, we reach out to the team around our guests and say,

is there anywhere you'd like to do the interview?

Is there anywhere meaningful to you?

And Billy Crystal immediately said, I would love to do

the interview in the Jack Crystal Theater at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. Why? Because

that theater is named for Billy's father, Jack Crystal, who was a band leader, a guy who in the 1950s had a record label, a guy who

kind of brought in all these different sounds and these voices into that very building,

that space, it of course has been changed and renovated since.

But Billy Crystal, basically as a young kid, grew up going to shows at this very theater where he and I are sitting and

talking and it was the first time he ever got up on a stage. His love for performing and

entertainment was sparked in that room. So it was very special to sit there with him inside those

four walls in the Jack Crystal Theater now named for his father. So I don't need to tell you about Billy Crystal's

career. I don't need to tell you about SNL. I don't need to tell you about Harry Met Sally,

City Slickers, Monsters, Inc., everything he has done over the course of his career, getting his

break with the Dean Martin Celebrity Ro roast of Muhammad Ali in 1976 that sparked a

friendship between the two for some 40 years. Now, Billy Crystal, obviously so known for

comedy, is in a very dark series on Apple TV Plus. It's called Before. He plays Dr. Eli Adler,

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