Monday Morning Cage Match XXII:City Slicker vs. Shitty Predictor.

After a moving/family-gathering-induced one-week hiatus, the Cage Match is back with a matchup I'm surprised I didn't think of before now: Actor/comedian Billy Crystal vs. commentator/editor Bill Kristol. Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure Kristol has more "Daily Show" appearances under his belt, but it remains to be seen how well he'll hold his own in the other categories.

	Billy Crystal	Bill Kristol
Early years	Performed regularly at The Improv, then got the role of gay ventriloquist Jodie Dallas on "Soap"	Taught politics at a couple of Ivy League schools, then got the role of chief of staff to Reagan's secretary of education
WINNER: Crystal
Big break	Joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in 1984	Founded The Weekly Standard in 1994
WINNER: Crystal
Best known for	Repeated appearances as host of the Academy Awards	Repeated appearances on every political talk show you can think of
WINNER: Tie
Biggest mistake	"Fathers' Day"/"My Giant"	Full-throated support for the Iraq War
WINNER: Crystal (but not by much)
Attempt at a comeback	"Analyze This"/"Monsters, Inc."	Full-throated support for Sarah Palin as John McCain's 2008 running mate
WINNER: Crystal
How'd that work out?	Good reviews and more than $700 million in worldwide grosses	First Democratic president in eight years
WINNER: Kristol
Sage wisdom	"No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her."	"[Saddam Hussein]'s got weapons of mass destruction . . . Look, if we free the people of Iraq we will be respected in the Arab world."
WINNER: Crystal

FINAL SCORE: Billy Crystal 6, Bill Kristol 2. Lesson: It is better to be unfunny some of the time than to be wrong all of the time.