Quote of the Day (Billy Crystal, on “My Worst Bomb”)

“I was playing a place in Pennsylvania, back when The Exorcist was the hot movie. I’d put together a very funny thing, and when I exorcised the demon, it turned out to be Nixon. This thing was scorchingly funny for colleges, but with this audience, it’s just not hitting at all. And I looked out, and the first six or eight tables were all nuns. Afterward I hit my head lightly against the wall and said, ‘Check the crowd first. Check the crowd first.’”—Billy Crystal, quoted in “The Funny Business," in Rolling Stone, September 18, 2008