all of billie holliday great ings. >> jimmy: didn't you go to the movies with -- >> yeah. thers a scene in the show where i'm at my first moviwith bill holliday. >> jimmy: with billie holiday. >> and it's -- it's a very funny kindf wonderful thing to play as an acr. >> jimmy: i love the opening is bob sheppard, does thepening. i'not going on ruin thjoke. bu it's a great -- it starts off funny and en funny. it'such a good -- look at all the people -- >> this is the svenir book which i thought you'd get a kick out of. it has a lot of pictures from "snland stuff that i was on. >> jmy: all billy crystal. [ applse ] th is yul brynner's sister. >> this was from a skeh we did when i was on "snl," cald "life styles of the latives of the rich and famous." and i was yubrynner's sister, ruth who was a tvel agent. [ light laughter i said -- [ imitatg accent ] "i can get there, but you have to go totlanta." [ laughter ] it wasn "snl." eat times. di't you have good tim when you did it? you had to cnge really fast?

and i felt most at home with billie holliday. i'd lived longest with her. and i studied her and had written about her. i think what i wanted to do was i wanted to, one, choose a woman who was engaged in the production of music who wasn't a singer. because we know the singers, we know some of the singers, and that's usually our way of, our way of thinking about women in jazz. and i wanted to try something else like what does it mean to think of yourself as a composer and an arranger at this period in such a male-dominated way. and i also, you know, she -- all three of these women, i think, their sense of themselves was just so incredible to me. and especially mary lou williams. i mean, there were so few examples for her of what it was she was trying to become, and most of those examples were male. and yet she pursued it, she had absolute confidence in her talent and ability and importance. and so i think that i just, i sort of learned to welcome the opportunity to try and learn how to write about her. and how to write about the music. and then it just was a

his father owned a record store and he grew up around all these jazz greats, billie holliday, duke ellingtonit's 50 years his father passed away and realized it is a good time to bring the show back one more time and say goodbye to his dad. there is a moment when he realized what he wanted to do in his life and we asked the stars last night if they had that moment and this is what they had to say. >> yes, i did. when i realized that i wanted to write. i'm an author now but i was in college when i realized i wanted to do that. >> i did but the yankees would not have me. >> there was a moment when i said i'll try comedy or i don't know what else i'll do with my life. >> billy realized he wanted to either play for the yankees or make people hrafr. >> is it a monolog? >> it is a one man monolog. you laugh, cry. it has everything for everybody. it is at the imperial theater now until january 5. limited run. the tickets are going like hot cakes. >> i'm going to put it on my list because of you. >> you can catch me inthefoxlight.com. as always you can find me on twitter at? >> foxlight michael. >>

and i felt most at home with billie holliday. i'd lived longest with her.d i studied her and had written about her. i think what i wanted to do was i wanted to, one, choose a woman who was engaged in the production of music who wasn't a singer. because we know the singers, we know some of the singers, and that's usually our way of, our way of thinking about women in jazz. and i wanted to try something else like what does it mean to think of yourself as a composer and an arranger at this period in such a male-dominated way. and i also, you know, she -- all three of these women, i think, their sense of themselves was just so incredible to me. and especially mary lou williams. i mean, there were so few examples for her of what it was she was trying to become, and most of those examples were male. and yet she pursued it, she had absolute confidence in her talent and ability and importance. and so i think that i just, i sort of learned to welcome the opportunity to try and learn how to write about her. and how to write about the music. and then it just was a pro