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NEW YORK – Billy Crystal's "When Harry Met Sally..." has eventually gotten a supplement in a newborn Web recording that mixes in a taste of "Twilight."

Crystal debuted his prototypal recording for the comedy website FunnyOrDie.com on Wednesday. In it, he and administrator Rob Reiner pitch a supplement to the 1989 film.

A flat executive, played by cristal Scott, requests one draw to Crystal's plans: vampires. A trailer for the handle results follows, with Crystal falling for added woman, Sharon — played by Helen Mirren — in a retirement community.

Sharon, though, turns out to be a bloodsucking vampire. The flick is dubbed "Grampires: When Sharon Bit Harry."

"I'm employed in picture now," said Crystal in a sound discourse Wednesday. "I did 2 transactions on the Oscars and 4 transactions on FunnyOrDie and a aggregation of people wager it."

The 4 1/2-minute recording gives Crystal wide shack to spoof the recent vampire revitalisation in imbibe society — and a Hollywood desperate to study the trend — by marrying offensive maulings with old-age romance. A sort of stars attain cameos including Amerind Rudolph, Rob Riggle and modify Mike Tyson.

Crystal said the intent came to him at his grandson's prototypal date party, where he was dressed in a lowercase day vampire outfit.

"I said, `Oh, that makes me a grampire!'" said the 63-year-old comedian.

The recording is something of a kinsfolk affair, with Crystal's girl playwright (a past shaper on "The Daily Show") bringing as administrator and a playscript written by his sons-in-law, Howie playwright and archangel Foley. Crystal's grandchildren are seen in the background.

"Over the eld we've talked about, `Could we attain a sequel?'" said Crystal. "And I always intellection there was a chance to do something with them. And nobody wanted to intend participating with it. Then this lowercase intent hit, and it seemed same the amend way to have recreation with it and also sendup the flat system, which is rattling preventative at times."

The recording was effort with the help of FunnyOrDie, the place co-created by Will Ferrell and cristal McKay, over three life in Los Angeles.

"It every happened so fast," said Crystal. "I desire movies could be same this."

It's something of an entry to the cyberspace for Crystal, who also just connected Twitter. New as the tools are, though, the undergo recalled Crystal's earlier life on "Saturday Night Live" making videos with Christopher Guest.

"So it's right up our alley," Crystal said.

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http://www.funnyordie.com/

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