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...senior years. But Rothman's is not one of the customary retirement pastimes--not golf or travel or genealogy or a reading club. No, Rothman's pursuit is a lot more laughs than those, but it's also more difficult and, to some, much scarier. It's stand-up comedy...
After 30 years as a stand-up comic, movie actor and eight-time Academy Awards host, Billy Crystal cracked Broadway last season, starring in 700 Sundays, a one-man show about his New York childhood and the death of his father. Now he has launched a five-city tour of the show, and a book version ("the director's cut") is due Oct. 31. He talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin...
WHAT OTHER STAND-UP COMICS INFLUENCED YOU? Cosby, Carlin, Robert Klein. Bill Cosby was the one I related to the most. He had brothers; I had brothers. He played ball at Temple; I belonged to a temple...
...STAND-UP COMICS WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS--MOVIES OR TV SITCOMS OR WHATEVER. WHY? I don't know why that is. It's funny because now I'm just the opposite. I was so happy doing this play--not that I don't care if I don't do another movie, because I'm going to--but there's no comparison to the work. It's so much more thrilling onstage. You get it right away. When you do a movie, you set up the joke in September, you don't hear it till March...
...TOUGH DECISION TO DO THAT SHOW? Yeah. I had a stand-up career that was starting to bloom, and I had a lot of trepidation doing it. You know, if I had any regrets in my career, as much as I enjoy learning more about acting, I would have said no to Soap and continued to develop my stand-up. I loved the time, and what we did on the show was important. But I think if I looked back--yeah, I should have waited for something that may have fit me better...