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1 Jun, 2004

O Magazine interview

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Crystal talks about things not working out with Saturday Night Live early in his career in an interview with O Magazine.

I don’t blame anyone. It just got all blown out of proportion with the managers. They stood up for me, and Lorne stood up for his show. I understand that. The hard part was calling all the relatives and saying, “I’m not going to be on. They’re like, But we took naps so we could watch this at 11:30, Mr. Big Shot. What did you do, open your mouth?

19 Sep, 2014

The View interview

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Crystal is interviewed by Goldberg on The View. They talk about their friendship with Robin Williams, Crystal’s tribute to Williams on the Emmy’s and the person that Robin Williams was to them. Goldberg comments:

I met him ten years before I met you because he used to come to the comedy store in San Diego and we would improvise. I mean it was Robin Williams he used to do Mork and Mindy and when he saw me he said ‘Boy, you grew up!’

Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg talk on Robin Williams