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Topic: Billy Crystal

Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Getty/Kevin Winter)

Let's never have an Oscars host again

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Columbia Pictures)

Sally's fake orgasm was a group effort

Tamar Jeffers McDonald
(HBO)

Crystal and Maher on guns and DeVos

Taylor Link
(AP)

"SNL"'s insane first show

Doug Hill, Jeff Weingrad
Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)

Salon Staff
Gary Kroeger (AP/NBC/Salon)

My three mixed years on "SNL"

Kera Bolonik
Gary Kroeger and Jim Belushi at 30 Rock, with their cast photo from the 1984-85 season of "SNL" (GaryHasIssues.com)

My amazing "SNL 40" backstage

Gary Kroeger
Billy Crystal (Reuters/David Mcnew)

What Billy really meant

Erin Keane
Martin Short as Jackie Rogers Jr., Ed Grimley, Nathan Thurm

Martin Short's "SNL" secrets

David Daley

Prachi Gupta
Robin Williams and Billy Crystal (screenshot/"Today")

Sarah Gray
(Vince Bucci/invision/ap)

A perfect Emmys tribute

Prachi Gupta
Ellen DeGeneres (ABC)

The perfect Oscar host

Daniel D'Addario

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Billy Crystal on "Soap" (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-70292p1.html'>R. Gino Santa Maria</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

How gays on TV changed America

Andrew O'Hehir
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally"

Would Sally fake that orgasm?

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Willa Paskin
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