Billy Crystal Is Available To Become Conan’s Friend | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

hi my name is Billy Crystal and. I'm I'm just not sure. uh about being con baran's friend okay. there's a I I I admire your honesty. first of all there's a lot writing on. this there for both of us no I you know. I have U available days during the week. so so if this works out we could. actually start hanging out on a regular. basis yeah no I would like that yeah. well you're not sure yet we're going to. see how this goes shouldn't it be like.

that it should be like that I'm going to. tell you um I saw you at a at a school. event not long ago and we're chatting. and this thing just popped into my head. and I said it to you which is who has. checked more boxes in their career than. Billy Crystal and I said no no seriously. I'm thinking about this right now taking. off every category that you've had. success in it was impressive it also. angered. me it made me feel all but I was I was.

going through the list of you know. sitcom television Saturday Night. Live uh film I. mean Broadway I was getting I. was it's it's somehow less cool when you. help me with it the. Oscars uh I I mean there's there are a. lot of entertainers where I can say Okay. they've done well in these two uh these.

two slots they've got those covered but. you've had this absolutely uh stunning. career and so I was thrilled when you. said you'd come in and talk oh yeah. because my introduction to you as a real. human being as a physical person was I. was a volunteer on the very first comic. relief really I had just gotten a job my. writing partner and I just gotten a job. at mafit Lee right in the August of ' 85. and not long after that they said we're.

doing this thing comic relief it's going. to be the first one the hosts will be uh. Billy Crystal uh Robin Williams and um. whoopy Goldberg and everybody came out. and I was a gopher on that but I. remembered seeing you seeing you guys. seeing Robin seeing Whoopi I was 22 and. had just arrived in La staying in a $380. month apartment where I still live um.

but I remembered that uh seeing a limo. pull up and Jerry Lewis step out holding. a small white dog which is something. egotistical people do in movies but not. in real life and not only that uh that. dog he would Jerry would put the little. doggy treat m in his own mouth no to. soften it up and then go here Bobby here. that's what he.

he would. do but I. remember I remember that event everybody. came out yeah my introduction to Comedy. that really made me want to do it was. when 10 from your show of shows was. released as a movie with uh uh Sid. Caesar and um I watched my father took. me to see it I might have been 12 I. don't know and I said whatever this is I. have to get in on this and since Caesar. was there and I got to walk up to him.

and tell him how much he meant to me so. you were a big part of my introduction. to this whole world well so was so was. it for me that was my show I. was five or six I'm the youngest of uh. three boys mhm my family was in a music. business my dad uh produced phenomenal. jazz concerts uh the family business was. this little record store called The. Commodore music shop on 42nd Street. between Lexington and third.

and it was the hangout for jazz artists. it was the my uncle Milt who's in excuse. me. in this you can cut out no no no we're. going to keeping this you're softening. up a dog tree right now. I'm Jerry's dog is still alive Jerry is. here. boobby he said for that he said said no. poop no poop sit good boy who's the best. little Jew dog.

and my uncle started this label the. commer Jazz label which was the first. independently owned Jazz label of its. kind and he started producing his own. records one of which became Strange. Fruit by Billy Holiday all of these. great jazz artists but my parents um. were comedy just mavens my mom for a. little while was the voice of Minnie. Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day. parades know that they met at Macy's and.

she was the voice of Minnie Mouse the. float would come down Fifth Avenue and. she'd be sitting somewhere under Min. skirt that's flying in air doing singing. her song which was at the time I'm. forever blowing bubbles they were always. funny and they they really knew that the. three of. us we we had a shine for it so they let. us stay up late to watch in the. beginning show of shows which then later. evolved to Steve Allen on a Tonight Show. Jack par uh Ernie Kovac was a huge.

influence but it was it was an episode. of um 10 from your showa shows they're. doing a takeoff of The King and I which. is just one best picture and so they. have you know kind of cheesy Palace set. and then. Sid who is just the Charlie Chaplain of. Television yeah comes out in a bad bald. wig capri pants Barefoot strikes the. pose then starts screaming at the top of. his lungs grabbing his foot who's. smoking in the palace there's no smoking.

in the palace and I just F that's so I. was doing that constantly and then the. show of shows um to me the classic. sketch was um this is your life yes this. Al duny yes and which is one which is. the sketch that got my attention too in. that movie the movie is a collection of. sketches but yes well Hoy moris comes. out as Uncle goopy and starts crying and. jumping on Sid and said was very strong.

he would drag them around the room. they'd look at each other and they'd. scream and cry and they'd separate then. they'd go back on top of each other so. when my dad would come home from the. store I was four or five six maybe I. jump on his back and cry and and he jump. throw me into bed I so I was I you know. I was Uncle goopy that show when Sid. came I introduced myself this this comic. relief now 1986 maybe yeah yeah and I. have a picture um uh with the cast in.

the cast of show shows and when I was. most recently on Broadway with Mr. Saturday night I had an 8 by10 of that. picture and that was the last thing I. looked at before I would go on on stage. every time because that was the scent. that I followed all of these years.