TV & VIDEO - Sept. 26, 1989

Robin Williams, Jay Leno and Billy Crystal do jokes and celebrity impressions for Barbara Walters in her first all-comedian interview special, tonight (10-11 P.M. ET) on ABC. But the emphasis is more on stay-at-home domesticity than stand-up routines. Williams introduces Walters to his wife and baby daughter, Zelda, and Leno and Crystal talk about their longtime marriages. “In general, I haven’t liked doing comedians because you ask a question and you end up playing straight man,” admits Walters, with whom Eddie Murphy was uncooperative in an early interview. “But these three were very nice, funny and revealing--and maybe I’m able to sit and laugh more than I might have in the past.”