Still Foolin’ ‘Em audiobook

OMG! Hilarious! Highly recommend!Billy Crystal hits it out of the park with this book! At age sixty-five, he reflects on his life with humor, self-awareness, humility, and poignancy. He describes aging as peeing in Morse code, dropping food on your chin, shirt and pants, and walking like a whoopee cushion after a colonoscopy.He weaves a colorful tapestry of his personal and professional life that made me laugh and cry at the same time. He shares his wonderful experiences walking his daughters down the aisle at their weddings as well as his role as a grandfather. He provides insights into movie stars and athletic celebrities that are a peek at their true character.Highly, highly recommend!

I think Billy could read me the phone book and I would sit in my chair and be totally enthralled.I loved his story and the way he told it. He made me laugh and cry and made me feel honored to be able to listen to him tell his story about his family and friends. Billy, I hope you go on living, laughing and loving for a long, long time to come.

I am not a huge Billy Crystal fan but I liked most of the movies with him. I like biographies and love humor so this seemed like a good book to read for me.His life isn't like most celebrity lives I read about. Keith Richard's for example had lots of drugs and drama. Billy Crystal on the other hand had a very smooth and "normal" (as normal as a life of a movie star who is friends with other celebrities can be). He got married when he was 21, is still married to that woman. Had kids. Started his career in his early 20's and kept on moving up. But a "boring" life can be a good thing. It does seem to be a happy life.And one can see that he is a good writer and comedian because he still managed to present it all in a pretty entertaining way. I don't like baseball but I still liked the passages where he talks about it. It isn't an outrageously funny book. He concentrates a lot on getting old in the chapters between the ones where he describes his work and life in one of the decades of his life. So it is a mixture of humor and sentimentality. In my opinion it was pretty well balanced and I did enjoy it.

My reading tends to get too heavy. Books on politics, presidential biographies, history, Game of Thrones ... the weight of the words can be too much at times. So it was refreshing to read Billy Crystal's memoir, which I flew through in just a couple of days. It was just what my literary mind needed: something lighter, but with substance. I don't consider myself a die-hard Crystal fan, per se. He just has a knack for showing up in projects I have enjoyed over the years, like Running Scared, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally ..., Monster's Inc., 61*, and Analyze This. His delivery reminds me of Jackie Mason, if slightly edgier. His book is written in much the same way. I could hear Crystal's voice in my head as I read. Either by coincidence or by design, Crystal's narrative seems to mature as he ages in the narrative. The dirty jokes and knowing winks give way to genuine introspection and occasional melancholia. But he finds a way to make it all funny in the right places. I don't like to use the phrase LOL, but I found that I did quite a bit of that as I read. While not a tell-all in the truest sense of the word, Crystal does spin more than a few interesting yarns about the famous people he has encountered. Good story or bad, one thing is certain: Billy Crystal has led a remarkable life. Take a little time and check it out. You won't regret it.

Billy Crystal is great. This is the second book I have read from him , and he has led a very interesting life. This book will make you re-evaluate what is important in your life, and appreciate family more. There are many great stories in this book, some about his movies, some about his stand-up comedy, and several about real life.

A warm, insightful, crudely hilarious, and poignant memoir of sorts that reads like a collection of essays or comedy bits, mixed in with a loose autobiography. Do yourself a favour and pick up the audiobook - Crystal reads some sections in front of a live audience, where he is clearly most at home. It's a beautiful read of personal material, as funny as it is moving.

Delightful and funny trip down memory lane with Billy Crystal. At sixty five, he writes a fascinating and touching memoir that resonates with every baby boomer. Never mind that he is a creative comedian, a brilliant writer, a movie star, baseball fanatic; Billy and the reader have much in common, there is something there for everyone. He is able to tap into your very heart finding the common bonds of society, whether it is as a spouse, parent, grandparent, brother or son. This is a people's biography filled with episodes of a life that makes you feel as though you were there right beside Billy Crystal. His experiences become communal, his joys a shared triumph, his pain and anger as heartbreaking as your own. Crystal relates his history, explaining how he built his career with sacrifice and hard work.He is a devoted husband and father. His clever perceptions whether it's our aging bodies or the impending funeral choices are as insightful as they are humorous. He is the real deal, and as such it was a pleasure to spend the evening with him.