Did he only recently let himself go grey? Good look on him, should have done that a while back.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
And damn if you're not right about the quotes:
“Want me to tell you what would make Al Jolson turn over in his grave? That’s to see a marquee outside of a hotel, a huge marquee, saying, ‘Prime Rib $9.’ That (bleeping) marquee was put there for Andy Williams, or Steve and Eydie, or Frank, or Dean and Jerry. Prime Rib? What are you doing? You’re using that to advertise a steak? … You’re charging people $200 night to come to a town that has a steak on the marquee? (Slams a fist on table). Let’s go see steak tonight! It just boils my ass!”
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Steak will be here all week!
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i found a copy of this mag @ a book sale the other day -http://www.ebay.com/itm/FOCUS-Chicago-Film-Journal-Hitchcock-Tashlin-Hawks-/220510132382#vi-desc
theres a footnotes section on the second-to-last page abt various projects, etc and one reads:
Finally, despite extreme production difficulties, Jerry Lewis has finished his pet project of many years, THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 19 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
miss you Jerry
(not the telethon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP59ZQdQZak
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 September 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Flipped past it last night, thought, "Woo-hoo! Jerry!" and just as quickly remembered he was out of the picture.
Also, I'm upset that I can't find the clip from the year when he introduced Lynyrd Skynyrd by pronouncing their name phonetically ("lie-neerd sky-neerd").
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 1 September 2014 22:32 (nine years ago) link
Did anybody listen to WBAI (FM 99.5) from New York City this morning at 11am? No? OK, I'll summarize it for you. Hosts Janet Coleman and David Dozer welcomed Judy Graubart (ex-cast member of the Electric Company!) and Joshua White, who claimed to be a former producer of the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, to speak on the topic of comedy and charity.
Joshua White stated unequivocally that the reason Jerry Lewis no longer hosts the Telethon is that the MDA administration, which had always been composed predominately of gay men, reached a point where they could no longer tolerate the homophobic nature of Lewis's comedy, and so they fired him.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 02:43 (nine years ago) link
Joshua White also claims to be one of the three people who have seen the unedited footage of The Day the Clown Cried, which he says is terrible and no amount of tweaking could make it good.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
That could be part of it, but I doubt humorless f______ts is the whole story
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
Limp wrists and ice buckets are a deadly combination.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Jerry's said many fucked-up and indefensible things over the years, but iirc he issued a more-sincere-sounding-than-usual apology for a homophobic joke he told on the air a couple of years ago. For whatever that's worth.
which he says is terrible and no amount of tweaking could make it good.
tbf, Jerry himself has said that too, publicly and repeatedly.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
his joke on on Julio Iglesias's name in that bit is "Julio English-Ass"
Julio English-Ass
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
that's what 58 years onstage (to that point) gets ya
punchline of woman-who-went-to-doc joke a fairly progressive twist tho
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
(for him)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
also, do not play that at work or you might be euthanized
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I was otherwise pretty impressed with his stand-up manner, it's not really even his field but he makes it work
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
his field
http://www.suprmchaos.com/jerry-lewis_061006.jpg
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
I'm always "impressed" by him. This much is true.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 14:46 (nine years ago) link
89 yesterday! he's playing Nic Cage's father in a corrupt-cop drama!
http://deadline.com/2015/02/jerry-lewis-the-trust-nicolas-cage-elijah-wood-1201375459/
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
"Nic, why did you do my voice in Peggy Sue Got Married? You couldn't have given me a call, first?"
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link