Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish Partner Up in 'Here Today' Trailer

Billy Crystal knows what an entertaining Oscars looks like.

Good comedy has always striven to tell the truth and push boundaries.

Add Billy Crystal's name to the long list of comedians who aren't fans of cancel culture. Celebrities have been at odds with cancel culture, which could see someone be "canceled" for problematic remarks or behavior, effectively ending their careers as public figures.

latest flick, “Here Today.” The movie, the first he’s directed in two decades, follows a veteran comedy scribe, Charlie Burnz (played by Crystal), who is battling dementia.

Angelique Jackson In the new movie “Here Today,” Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish play an unlikely duo who form a May-December friendship. Off-screen, the comedy stars have grown just as close.In fact, when Haddish celebrated her bat mitzvah in late 2019 with a star-studded shindig, Crystal was in attendance alongside Wanda Sykes, Common, Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Handler, Kevin Nealon and Sarah Silverman.

Billy Crystal plays Charlie Berns, a renowned writer of TV, films and Broadway plays whose heyday was in the 1970s and ’80s. Now, he’s a respected old fogey with a gig writing for a cable sketch show called “This Just In.” It airs on the “Funny Channel” — a misnomer if there ever was one.No wonder the overlong movie directed by Crystal doesn’t get laughs, because “Here Today” is also a dementia drama.

Billy Crystal's new dramedy,, begins with a scene so outlandish and so unbelievable that it could only be true. Crystal's character, veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz, sits down at a restaurant with Emma (Tiffany Haddish), who won their lunch in a charity auction.

Tiffany Haddish may be a mother. The 41-year-old actress recently revealed that she's preparing for motherhood by taking parenting classes with ambitions to one day adopt.

A sleepy and aimless stab at something earnestly “feel-good," “Here Today" is a wasted pairing of Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish that juggles dementia, grief and family squabbles about as adeptly as a daytime soap.“Here Today,” which opens in theaters Friday, is genial and gentle enough to make it mildly restive. It is, in scenes around leafy Brooklyn Heights, at least leisurely.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Here Today,” starring Billy Crystal as a venerable TV comedy writer and Tiffany Haddish as the saintly, rough-around-the-edges street singer who becomes his unlikely pal, is a movie that feels like it could have been made 30 years ago: a friendly, adult-skewing, tart-witted but never nasty, jokes-and-hugs-built-around-a-serious-crisis character study that’s just ’90s enough to be comfortably old-fashioned, like an old pair of tasseled loafers.

The Last Black Unicorn author explained that she's not expecting to have a child naturally. “Let me tell you, if I get pregnant, that is all God—tearing down all walls, all barriers,” she joked during the interview.

Tiffany Haddish made an in-person appearance on Monday’s edition of “The Late Late Show”, joining host James Corden for a socially distanced conversation while wearing a bedazzled plastic face-shield.

Looking ahead! Tiffany Haddish has taken a major step in her adoption journey.

Tiffany Haddish is opening up about her plans to adopt.

Tiffany Haddish is living her best life.From hosting another season of to finding love with rapper Common, the comedian is basking in her blessings.

Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish joined forces for a wide ranging interview.

Billy Crystal has hosted the Oscars a lot.

Tiffany Haddish and Common!The couple turned up the heat in their steamy #SilhouetteChallenge video in January — and fans loved it. So will the two ever collaborate again? The answer is yes!"[Yes], as far as I know from our conversation this morning," Haddish tells ET's Kevin Frazier while promoting her and Billy Crystal's new movie,.