Jerry Lewis receives French Legion of Honor on 80th birthday

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

miss you Jerry

(not the telethon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP59ZQdQZak

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").

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.

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.

That could be part of it, but I doubt humorless f______ts is the whole story

Limp wrists and ice buckets are a deadly combination.

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.

his joke on on Julio Iglesias's name in that bit is "Julio English-Ass"

Julio English-Ass

that's what 58 years onstage (to that point) gets ya

punchline of woman-who-went-to-doc joke a fairly progressive twist tho

(for him)

also, do not play that at work or you might be euthanized

I was otherwise pretty impressed with his stand-up manner, it's not really even his field but he makes it work

his field

http://www.suprmchaos.com/jerry-lewis_061006.jpg

I'm always "impressed" by him. This much is true.

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/

"Nic, why did you do my voice in Peggy Sue Got Married? You couldn't have given me a call, first?"