Billy Crystal will bring back some of his “SNL” characters for the new show “The Comedians,” his co-star Josh Gad told us last week at the FX upfronts.
“I grew up watching ‘SNL’ religiously, so seeing [Crystal] re-create some of his characters on this show and doing some of that stuff is a dream come true,” Gad said, adding that he’s also getting an education from the veteran comic.
“He’ll bring up stories about old comedians, like random people that I will know nothing about, like, ‘One time I was hanging out with this guy in 1972,’ and it’s like exactly what’s happening right now,” Gad continued.
The show, premiering in 2015, is appropriately about a late-night sketch show.