Hey, guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks, as always, for clicking and listening along.

I am absolutely thrilled to bring you my conversation this week with a man who truly needs no introduction.

He is a legend in Hollywood. He is a legend in

comedy. He is Billy Crystal. I will just give you a little background about our location.

Sometimes when we do these interviews, we reach out to the team around our guests and say,

is there anywhere you'd like to do the interview? Is there anywhere meaningful to you?

And Billy Crystal immediately said, I would love to do the interview. Is there anywhere meaningful to you? And Billy Crystal immediately said,

I would love to do the interview in the Jack Crystal Theater at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City.

Why? Because that theater is named for Billy's father, Jack Crystal, who was a bandleader, a guy who in the 1950s had a record label,

a guy who kind of brought in all these different sounds and these voices into that very

building, that space, that of course has been changed and renovated since. But Billy Crystal,

basically as a young kid, grew up going to shows at this very theater where he

and I are sitting and talking and it was the first time he ever got up on a stage. His love for

performing and entertainment was sparked in that room. So it was very special to sit there with him

inside those four walls in the Jack Crystal Theater, now named for his father. So I don't need to tell you about

Billy Crystal's career. I don't need to tell you about SNL. I don't need to tell you about Harry Met Sally,

City Slickers, Monsters, Inc., everything he has done over the course of his career, getting his

break with the Dean Martin Celebrity Ro roast of Muhammad Ali in 1976 that sparked

a friendship between the two for some 40 years. Now, Billy Crystal, obviously so known for

comedy, is in a very dark series on Apple TV Plus. It's called Before. He plays Dr. Eli Adler, who's a child psychiatrist caring for this

very troubled young boy who kind of exposes Crystal's character's own demons and makes him explore

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