Don’t want to give away the joke, so just watch!
If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the source for this clip, Billy Crystal’s one-man autobiographical show, 700 Sundays, available on HBO Go and on DVD. And if you like movies about comedians, I also recommend Crystal’s Mr. Saturday Night (1992).
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin