Here's the last one of these I'm going to embed here.
I've always liked Billy Crystal. Years ago, I wondered why no one had shovelled enough cash his way to install him as a TV talk show host. Then a friend at the network told me that his was a name that was once mentioned in that capacity but that back when he was making hit movies, he didn't want to give that up…and that once he was no longer making movies, he was "too rich to work that hard." I suppose now they'd say he's too old…
But I wonder if anyone's ever discussed offering him the chance to emulate one of his idols, Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy had a talk show for a while but it was once a week. Sammy and Company was on from '75 to '77 and it was famous for having its guests spend the full hour (or was it 90 minutes?) locked in discussions of each others' greatness. SCTV parodied it as The Sammy Maudlin Show but it was like trying to exaggerate infinity. I say bring it back as Billy and Company. He could even open every show doing little song parodies with his guests' names inserted, not unlike this…