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Was Jerry Lewis supposed to be funny?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 9:27 pm
Because I don’t fricking get it. Who was this over the top shite for besides French people?
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Posted on 7/26/22 at 9:30 pm to JumpingTheShark
Everyone in the 1950s claimed Dean Martin would be forgotten to time when he left Jerry Lewis.
Holt shite were they wrong. Lewis was never funny. His best work was actually The King of Comedy, which wasn't even a comedy...
There's a reason he's more famous for his telethon than anything he ever did in the screen.
Holt shite were they wrong. Lewis was never funny. His best work was actually The King of Comedy, which wasn't even a comedy...
There's a reason he's more famous for his telethon than anything he ever did in the screen.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:08 pm to JumpingTheShark
Jerry Lewis was a comic genius.
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:13 pm to JumpingTheShark
quote:Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld… most top comedians idolized Lewis.
Who was this over the top shite for besides French people?
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:14 pm to JumpingTheShark
quote:
Because I don’t fricking get it.
Buddy Love would kick your arse for that comment
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:18 pm to JumpingTheShark
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ETA: Richard Pryor saw this movie as a kid, and thought this bit was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
14 yrs later he told Lewis this personally on The Merv Griffin Show
ETA: Richard Pryor saw this movie as a kid, and thought this bit was the funniest thing he'd ever seen.
14 yrs later he told Lewis this personally on The Merv Griffin Show
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 10:21 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 10:59 pm to JumpingTheShark
He was fricking hilarious. Mostly in his early films with Dean Martin and then in the 70's he stopped being funny. Because his character that made him funny was the Stooge and an older Stooge just isn't funny. The Stooge, Jumping Jacks, Scared Stiff, The Nutty Professor ,The Geisha Boy, The Bellboy, the Ladies Man, Artists and Models, and My Friend Irma Goes West remain favorites.
This post was edited on 7/26/22 at 11:01 pm
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:03 pm to JumpingTheShark
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Who was this over the top
Jim Carrey
Posted on 7/26/22 at 11:30 pm to JumpingTheShark
He and Dean Martin had a radio show that was pretty good. As a kid, I was always glad to run across a Jerry Lewis movie on tv, especially if it was a Martin/Lewis movie.
If you were a kid in the 70s, you knew the telethon would be pretty boring but it was still a huge event...just because you knew that there would be a station still broadcasting at 2 am.
If you were a kid in the 70s, you knew the telethon would be pretty boring but it was still a huge event...just because you knew that there would be a station still broadcasting at 2 am.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 12:06 am to JumpingTheShark
He was hilarious in “The Day the Clown Cried.”
Posted on 7/27/22 at 12:18 am to JumpingTheShark
He may be one of those people you don't like unless you saw his stuff when you were a kid. I've still got Geisha Boy on VHS somewhere and I thought he was hilarious but I can see thinking he was just silly as an adult
Posted on 7/27/22 at 2:57 am to JumpingTheShark
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Who was this over the top shite for besides French people?
French comedies to this day are very Jerry Lewisesque.
See Le Diner De Con
Which became in the US remake
Posted on 7/27/22 at 4:39 am to JumpingTheShark
I love hearing the stories about what a POS.he was IRL to his family. Really warms the heart.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 6:58 am to JumpingTheShark
You probably think Trevor Noah is funny.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 7:01 am to JumpingTheShark
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Because I don’t fricking get it. Who was this over the top shite for besides French people?
Its as if tastes change over time or something
Posted on 7/27/22 at 7:45 am to JumpingTheShark
The Martin/Lewis movies were kind of funny, from a slapstick point of view. Lewis was pretty good with physical comedy.
As he got older, he seemed to develop an air of arrogance that was really over the top and came off like he thought he was God's gift to comedy. He really became unlikeable in his old age.
Dean Martin, on the other hand, was quite the likeable guy and his variety show was a big hit when on TV for 9 years from 65 to 74.
As he got older, he seemed to develop an air of arrogance that was really over the top and came off like he thought he was God's gift to comedy. He really became unlikeable in his old age.
Dean Martin, on the other hand, was quite the likeable guy and his variety show was a big hit when on TV for 9 years from 65 to 74.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:04 am to gumbo2176
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As he got older, he seemed to develop an air of arrogance that was really over the top and came off like he thought he was God's gift to comedy. He really became unlikeable in his old age.
Back when Stern was listenable, they used to play clips from the telethon where during commercial breaks or even on the air where he was just being a complete dick to the producers and stage hands. The clips were funny as hell.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 8:31 am to JumpingTheShark
Its almost as if mainstream comedy evolves over the decades, and one generation might have a different flavor of comedy than the next.
Posted on 7/27/22 at 9:13 am to JumpingTheShark
Like everything else, comedy evolves.
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