kicker on that clip is Taylor Dayne's horror
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 September 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
end of an era, obviously; his last, and shrunk to 6 hours.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/17/entertainment/la-et-quick-20110517
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Last two hours should be The Day the Clown Cried.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
dohhhhhhhhhhhhh
I guess he didn't want to go out with "I have lotsa pornos"
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wow that really is the end of a long, long era.
― w of in the attic (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the afterimage of vaudeville
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey, lady!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NCvn8LtCc&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 May 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
for a few years I kept tripping on Labor Day weekend so the telethon made some deep, weird connections. peaking at 3am trying to grok the banter between Norm Crosby and Charo
― herbal bert (herb albert), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
slightly off-topic, but i wonder if anyone in his circle ever tried telling him that he is much funnier playing "himself" (like in the bellhop or buddy love or the king of comedy) than he is doing the manchild character that he made his reputation on
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
lol, that's awesome. advice: i would recommend never watching sonny and cher show under similar circumstances. on the other hand, i think i would kind of enjoy watching an endless loop of those dean martin celebrity roast infomercials
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
"hold it a second. hold it hold it, hold, hold it. we'll make our own music, gorgeous, just hold it. you and you stay. tubby, you go rest your thumbs, i'll drive. sweetie, go get your lips pressed. split! ...mood is wrong, mood is wrong! innkeeper, got sexy lights? lay it on me!"
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not a fan, but Lewis is just great in King of Comedy. I'm sure it took every ounce of Scorsese's energy to rein him in. I don't know if he's playing himself or not--I always thought he was playing Carson (when the cameras were off), but I suppose he draws heavily on his own life too.
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 May 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
He did MC some talk shows, you know.
And he didn't really play the manchild much (except for quick laughs on TV) after The Disorderly Orderly.
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xpostyeah, he was just amazing in that. was larry sanders supposed to be based on johnny carson, or am i making that up?
arizona dreams is another drama with lewis that is supposed to be really good, but i've not seen it
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Jerry's speech in Sandra Bernhard's apartment -- "the pressure, the ratings," etc. -- was entirely improvised. So yeah, I think there's a fair bit of himself in there.
With a big cock on it.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
xpostie
what talk shows?
well, he was still sort of playing the manchild to some degree in hardly working and smorgasbord. anyhow, the point i'm trying to make is that when he played less broadly or whatever i think he was much much funnier and more impressive
dr. morbius, do you have a favorite out of his late sixties films?
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
jeez, the late '60s films are kind of a wasteland. I saw Three on a Couch not long ago and it was better than I remembered, but he didn't direct some of the others -- which were among the first I saw as a kid on TV, probably put me off from the good stuff for years.
The broad "nine-year-old" stuff is very funny on the TV specials he did with Dino in the '50s, much wilder and improvised than anything that's in their movies certainly. That's what made him a star, it's understandable that he didn't start to let go of it til he was about 40.
(I will hit anybody who brings up Adam Sandler w/ a sock o' manure)
He had at least one short-lived 'Jerry Lewis Show' chat series in the '60s. Then he did a "pilot week" of one around 1984 that I saw -- I remember him interviewing William Shatner, and then doing a sketch where he played an Asian chef with plastic buck teeth. :(
Anyway, this is the telethon thread. He really performed some amazing, drugged monologues of fury in the '70s.
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, yeah, afaict the consensus seems to be that three on a couch is the best of the lot.
lol, he did the asian with buck teeth thing in hardly working when he gets a job at a benihaha-type place. yikes
i would love to see footage from his chat shows or from the telethon years when he was out of control
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
him interviewing shatner. the mind reels.
― dell (del), Thursday, 19 May 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
They probably both thought they were talking into a mirror.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
jenny lewis should take this over next year
― buzza, Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
He did the Asian stereotype bit when he guested on Mad About You (voice only, not that it made it any less offensive); you could hear the studio audience collectively thinking, "What the fucking fuck?"
For me, seeing Jerry as "the kid" (first in You're Never Too Young, which COMPLETELY changed my mind about Lewis/made me a convert for life), the first thing that sprang to mind was, "Oh, so this is where Pee-Wee Herman got about 60% of his schtick." The Errand Boy makes that connection more obvious (and the studio backlot scene in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is pretty much an homage to Errand Boy).
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 May 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
in his more freeform moments, Jerry is clearly father to Jim Carrey too
― the gay bloggers are onto the faggot tweets (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Jerry's out
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 August 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
A month before the show... If this isn't purely age/health-related, I'm sure there's a story, and I don't wanna hear it.
― satan club sandwich (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 August 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpdnfD1Z_tg
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 September 2011 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, disfigured kids. I'm not watching a second of your show this year.
― Gus Van Sant's Gerry Blank (Eric H.), Monday, 5 September 2011 02:37 (twelve years ago) link
missing the mortifying hilarity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMX8yA3MAwc
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 September 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
At 4:10: "I'd like to see her in a platter with a banana in her mouth.
!!
And nice Goodfellas moment at 6:30. "Why did you play those few notes after he said stop?"
― half the staying power of Erasure (Eazy), Monday, 7 September 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
excellent Torah joke about a minute after that
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
"It shoulda been a Jew that did it."
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/09/dean-martin-jerry-lewis-reunion-anniversary
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 September 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link
I somehow missed this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2bddu2a8A
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 August 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
― dell (del), Thursday, May 19, 2011
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, May 19, 2011
1984:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWeR3MN4im0
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 August 2017 21:59 (six years ago) link
Shatner interview starts at 28:00 if you're impatient
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
Totie Fields, people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=velqgpw6PTY
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 September 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link