Yiddish scat at the Tony Awards
“Ella Fitzgerald, wherever you are, I apologise in advance.” Billy Crystal gave this year’s Tonys a jolt of Jewish shtick when he coaxed the audience into a call-and-response Yiddish scat routine In a good-faith mockery of Fitzgerald’s own famous scat routine, Crystal, in character as his Mr Saturday Night character Buddy Young Jr., let loose […]
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