Earlier this month, rejectedjokes and BillyCrystal, two Jewish kids from the Bronx who can make people laugh, reunited over Zoom for a casual chat about food, sleep, and other essentials.
As a Jewish kid growing up in the Bronx, Ben Schwartz relied on humor to make new friends. That skill came in handy when his family relocated to Westchester, and even more so when he embarked on a comedy career that eventually led him to his breakout role as the lovable blowhard Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on. Schwartz’s origins made him a natural fit opposite Billy Crystal, another Jewish kid from the Bronx who could make people laugh, in the 2019 comedy.
SCHWARTZ: I was. I think I’m a mixture of my mom and dad. My mom is more physically comedic and zany, and my dad is more witty, and I kind of do both. So as a kid I liked making people laugh, and when I moved from the Bronx to Westchester, the way that I made friends was by making people laugh. I was the class clown in high school.SCHWARTZ: You know what it is? The second I look at my phone, I’m up. If I see a text or an email, my brain starts and I can’t go back to sleep.
SCHWARTZ: Talk about what you’re doing. I know this is supposed to be about me, but I’m so excited that you’re doing this thing on Broadway [CRYSTAL: It’s scary. Leaving my family brings anxiety, and then there’s the work. You’re thinking of new lines, new songs—that’s what keeps me up. But it also fuels the dreams.
SCHWARTZ: All the time. But when I have an important thing coming up, if there’s a big filming day, I’ve usually not slept a ton the night before, because I’m either excited or nervous.SCHWARTZ: I get frustrated at a lot of things, and I get annoyed, and oftentimes I’ll spiral about little things that nobody else would care about.SCHWARTZ: I hate feeling helpless. That can be on a macro scale, like during Covid, or it could be my mom who just hurt her leg, and she’s in New York.
SCHWARTZ: My father started off as a social worker, then he worked as the director of the YMHA, which is a big job in Riverdale. And then he moved from that, and also did a whole bunch of stuff, and then worked in real estate. My mom was a Bronx school teacher.SCHWARTZ: Music. I was one of her students, and I wasn’t allowed to be any of the big roles in musicals when my mom was a teacher because they considered it nepotism.
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