The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon - Classic or Dud?

6 years on, not remembering anything of the sort, I say classic, only because I read this thread as "The Jerry Lewis MDMA Telethon"

i still think the jerry lee lewis mdma telethon would be teh-awesome

uh MDA telethon

MDA is sorta old school MDMA

It's on, y'all!

Wynonna's singing "I Want To Know What Love Is" with requisite choir.

Charo on NOW!

Singing freakin' Rihanna's "Don't Stop the Music!!!!!!!!"

She just slammed her crotch in a female audience member's arm.

I think I just saw the face of God.

I hope that gets YouTubeded.

I got it on tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_QSvWE_HkA

What I thought Jerry said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the rock band GWAR!" (wha????)

Cut to a shot of War doing a medley of their hits.

I could never force myself to watch more than ten minutes of it. The show biz schlock and pity-pushing are so palpable it tastes like a slug of mercuric acid.

Yay!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiI2FzZIn80

God bless you (and her)

It's kinda sad he couldn't get up and do a spaz-dance with Charo.

OK, a friend says Jerry sang "Mammy" on the show (sitting down).

Jerry had oh so many senior moments, but none quite so bizarre as when he somehow managed to nearly get run over by his own motorized wheelchair cart.

that would be a good gag for Cracking Up II

Will have this on my TV all day at work tomorrow. Can't wait.

call me when Charo is on

Jerry condescends to the Jackson 5, whereupon they burn the damn house down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsqBjvOUPsQ

this is the era of Jackson 5 during which I first heard them and it's so special to me, how funky they were getting, just the vibe - when I was a kid I had the Enjoy Yourself single & listened to it over & over & over - and man just look at them chew up all the scenery. so rad.

Never seen the Telethon, being a Brit. But Jerry Lewis was classic onstage on Broadway and in London in Damn Yankees. Pure old school showbiz classic.

Tony Orlando indefatigably hosting NY local segments, still

biggest performers I caught last night were Manilow & Norm Crosby :/

is there any more boring a performer than Tony Orlando? I saw him on one of the telethons a few years ago and he was singing some song (i dunno if it was even one of his as I generally avoid his music) but during it he was making ridiculous facial expressions as if he had just blown your mind after every lyric.

also remember a few years ago that he had his son perform (Gary Lewis and the Playboys). and of course Gary's voice sounded terrible and tinny ("This Diamond Ring").

story on that is that Gary Lewis was supposed to originally just be the group's drummer, but they pushed him to the forefront of the group because he was attractive and related to celebrity, and could sell the group. Since he couldn't sing well, so they mixed his voice in with several other peoples so that he sounded more like Mario Lanza. this is why they lip-synched on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Competitive jump ropers back with more bore!

Jerry has lived this long just to keep jumpropers on TV

I wonder if I can write about French film w/ this on

if only they were martial arts jumpropers

Tony Orlando's showbiz hyperbole fits this show like a glove. To wit, SNL 1978:

Bill Murray:

Nominations for Update's Quote of the Year have piled up over the months and even though two weeks remain in the year, uh, the front-running quote looks hard to beat. Comes from the former member of Tony Orlando and Dawn, Tony Orlando himself. [Photo of Tony Orlando] It was on Bob Hope's seventy-fifth birthday special that Tony said, and I quote here, [slowly and solemnly] "If you could put all the laughs that Bob Hope has gotten, one after another, they would stretch all the way to the universe and fill up the black hole in space." Unquote. Jane?

Carrot Top.

The horror.

ditto

does Jerry just do the first 3 hours and the last 90 mins? seems that way.

Was gonna say, he was conspicuously absent until now.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs209.ash2/47179_431921752357_513642357_5226486_8180314_n.jpg

ok, a friend posted this on F'book -- is it an accurate quote?

"I have wonderful Porno stuff that I watch A LOT! Porno Corporation, the same people that did the Castle Films with the Monsters! Did I get away with it? NO!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIJQbSl7tr0

thx <3

Funnily enough, i misread this as "The Jenny Lewis MDA Telethon."

kicker on that clip is Taylor Dayne's horror

end of an era, obviously; his last, and shrunk to 6 hours.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/17/entertainment/la-et-quick-20110517

Last two hours should be The Day the Clown Cried.

dohhhhhhhhhhhhh

I guess he didn't want to go out with "I have lotsa pornos"

wow that really is the end of a long, long era.

the afterimage of vaudeville

Hey, lady!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8NCvn8LtCc&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

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

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

I somehow missed this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2bddu2a8A

him interviewing shatner. the mind reels.

― dell (del), Thursday, May 19, 2011

They probably both thought they were talking into a mirror.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, May 19, 2011

1984:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWeR3MN4im0

Shatner interview starts at 28:00 if you're impatient

Totie Fields, people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=velqgpw6PTY