TV Article 'The Comedians' clip: Billy Crystal flushes a lot of cocaine down a toilet By Dan Snierson Dan Snierson Dan Snierson is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2023. EW's editorial guidelines Published on April 7, 2015 12:00PM EDT Photo: FX Billy Crystal is returning to a weekly TV job for the first time in 30 years, and he’s bringing along a new friend: Josh Gad. The pair will dig deep into their bag of characters as they film a sketch show, but the two most recognizable ones will be Billy Crystal and Josh Gad. That’s right, the actors star as themselves in FX’s new mockumentary series The Comedians (April 9, 10 p.m.), which takes you behind the scenes of The Billy & Josh Show. Right here, exclusively on EW.com, you can check a sketch in which Crystal assumes the role of a drug lord who is sampling new product when he runs into some trouble, thanks to his partner in crime, played by Gad. To see what happens next—and what happens the cameras stop rolling on the sketch but not on the actors—press play. And in a related video, here’s why ‘The Comedians’ should be your new favorite show: