Hurricane Sandy – The Comic's Comic

Billy Crystal boosts tourism for his hometown of Long Beach, New York, the summer after Hurricane Sandy

August 12, 2013August 12, 20131

Billy Crystal may be a native New Yorker, but his heartstrings forever tug for his hometown of Long Beach, the Long Island town where the 65-year-old grew up. So when Long Beach needed someone to tell everyone else that the city had reopened for beach business this summer — 10 …

David Letterman’s audience-free monologue for Hurricane Sandy

October 29, 2012

As the advancing winds and rain of Hurricane Sandy began hitting New York City and the Tri-State area on Monday, the storm forced the cancellation of many live comedy shows, Broadway productions, and TV tapings — among them, the first-ever Brooklyn taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as regularly …