Billy Crystal Calls Modern Comedy a ‘Minefield,’ Throws Shade on This Year’s Oscars

Billy Crystal questioned the wisdom behind the Oscars not employing a host in recent years.  The "When Harry Met Sally" actor, 73, was first tapped to host the biggest awards show for movies in 1990. Since then, he’s been asked back again in 1992, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2012.

,“Suddenly you’re a hypocrite if you want to show your skin, and you’re easy and you’re a slut and you’re a whore. If I am, then I’m proud.

Billy Crystal knows what an entertaining Oscars looks like.

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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.

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.

When it comes to her fashion, Billie Eilish is singing a different tune. The Grammy-winning singer, who is the cover star of the June 2021 issue of British Vogue, opted for a glamourous pinup look for the surprising shoot.  The 19-year-old, known for her oversized, tomboyish style, rocked designer lingerie, stockings and a corset.

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