Kael did have a good word for Jerry Lewis, in her first book: "The Nutty Professor is too long and repetitive, but Jerry Lewis has some scenes that hold their own with the silent classics." That's pretty high praise, from her.

I could sit for hours just hearing this man talk about the film industry. He is frank and honest and his comments about Pauline Kael are brilliant...

Whatever happened to quality interviews like this? Very thoughtful and humorous, like many of Cavett's interviews. The shows today just don't stand up.

@tonydalcon

7 жыл бұрын

Cavett was barely hanging on to his time slot back then too...

@LocksLondon

3 жыл бұрын

Because celebrities aren't interesting anymore have and nothing to say.

@andrewharty3874

3 ай бұрын

UR Correct

He's a genius deserves the respect of all great director

Jerry is so good looking and sexy. He's not arrogant, he's aware of who he is and all his talents.

wow, this is an amazing clip. thanks for posting.

I wish more people had wanted Jerry for drama. He would have made a curiously good mafia boss.

@milart12

5 жыл бұрын

Agree totally-he was great in the King of Comedy-I think when left to his own devices he fell back on the corny slapstick and a lot of maudlin dramas.

thanks ever so much--fascinating interview--this is the best of jerry-despite what some think..

Jerry was such a genius.....he is truly like a fine wine that continues to get better and better with age.....r.i.p. 2017

As Jerry has said..to paraphrase..'when I'm on as Jerry the human being not Jerry the Idiot Kid...I'm arrogant, a megalomaniac for being intelligent and proud of my accomplishments' and that is very evident here on youtube. He has every right to be arrogant..he was able to set his mind to doing anything, being anyone..from Comedian to Director to Inventor of the most used technology in the industry today..Hail To The King!

Every theatre/acting/filmaking student should watch this. Todos los estudiantes de cinema/actuacion deben de ver esto.

Mankewicz was talking about most people. He was talking about the majority of youtubers commenting on this interview, (many of whom are calling this guy an arrogant egomaniac). When are people going to learn that the success of another is not their failure? That it's impossible to put someone (anyone) in a box? That the way someone perceives themselves has no bearing on you, and should not effect you in anyway? The lack of confidence the average person has in themselves is appalling.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

LauhterMadeFat Love your comment! Honest and intelligent! Unfortunately some Americans (maybe more than some) seem so morally judgmental. They think they are better than anybody else and it's appalling!

Very well put!

He tries to be what most people refuse to be; honest and objective. How could people honestly judge him so poorly?

@DDumbrille

10 жыл бұрын

Because as you pointed out above, he's extremely arrogant and an egomaniac. And he's hardly objective. One can be honest without being so patronizing...

@LaughterMadeFat

10 жыл бұрын

DDumbrille I said no such thing. DDumbrille, the more you explain, the more it seems like you just didn't like his tone, lol. That's fine, but assuming will from that is rather ignorant, no?

@DDumbrille

10 жыл бұрын

LaughterMadeFat My bad. You personally didn't describe him as such, but pointed out that 'many are calling this guy an arrogant egomaniac'. My point was that that's precisely why people 'judge him so poorly', not because of his so-called 'honesty', but because of his demeanor, his arrogant, superior attitude, or as you call it, his 'tone'.

@LaughterMadeFat

10 жыл бұрын

Right. Just as I typed. A shame.

@DDumbrille

10 жыл бұрын

LaughterMadeFat Well, we'll have to agree to disagree on that...

I think at the beginning when he talks of soeone to do things with him as good or better and having to wait for another, he refers to Dean being gone.

He said he started in the business 41 years before when he was five years old. Since he was born in 1926, I think, this would be about 1972.

@ronmackinnon9374

Жыл бұрын

Yes, 1972. The other clue to that was when a question was asked about one of his TV appearances, and he said that it was from 1961, and added that that was '11 years ago.'

If only I could be there to interview people on the red carpet. I'm an interviewer. too, but still a student. I love Jerry. He is a god.

Jerry kinda played down the question about Dean Martin, and went on... LOL

Love Love Jerry

Wow, this is pure gold , the real YT.

Class act

Mr. Lewis was a serious FILMMAKER. I don't know if it's been mentioned here but I believe he was the first to videotape his scenes simultaneously in order to review a the scene immediately after it is filmed - called video assist.

@bodguard1988

9 жыл бұрын

Good point, about video assist. Most people think of him just being that goofy loveable comic but he was a real ground breaker in films. There was a really great Documentary on him a couple of years ago I believe on PBS a lot of footage of him on the set etc. If you haven't seen you can probably Google it

@corfan99

9 жыл бұрын

Hey THANK YOU for the reply and for the PBS documentary - I haven't seen that one.

@AbirTarafdar

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah Corfan, you're right.

@audreysimmonds4873

7 жыл бұрын

oozes sex appeal....attractive infectious smile, funny love him ...

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

Audrey I agree 100% with you . I always thought that he was phenomenally sexy even in his Martin and Lewis days....

9:14 Shows how quick Jerry was on the uptake "fish" and "AC/DC" are gay/bi references of the day. Not sure if he was hinting something about himself or just testing the audiences IQ, lol.

@JohnSmith-kz8yo

4 жыл бұрын

i think he was hinting about the gal that asked the question...cut likes knife..lol

He is Buddy Love!

Great post!!! Anyone know what year this was?

Jerry is far smarter than I tought he was.

2019?? Anyone

JERRY LEWIS 16 DE MARZO DE 1926 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2017 91 AÑOS

Jerry was a complicated man that Scorcese captured pretty well. I liked Jerry in all his messiness...can't play a clown all the time.

Very intresting interview. What ever happened to Mr. Martin? He married Cyd Sharice! Great stuff! Thanks again. Cheers! :)

Jerry's a cutie ♥

@atlantidemariamangin4659

6 жыл бұрын

freshprincess yes! He was sexy!

I've *never* understood the attraction to his 'humour'. The French think he's a *comedic genius* and they're usually *quite intelligent.* On the other hand his *'serious' acting* has been quite *competent.*

The best thing he ever did was the King of Comedy. By far.

@thecinematicmind

2 жыл бұрын

Martin Scorsese got Lewis better than Lewis.

@gb2096

Жыл бұрын

Filmbro’s

this is good because he's Jerry Langford in it

how the fuck can this guy be so articulate?

@iaresloth I agree with you on so many levels!

Is the other female critic Judith Crist, perhaps?

@krisscanlon4051

25 күн бұрын

15 years later maybe but it could be Rona Barrett who was a gossip columnist too

I wonder whatever Pauline Kael wrote about Jerry Lewis. The only review of a Lewis film I remember reading from her was about "The King of Comedy".

when was this done? 1961+11=1972.....i recall welles sort of crticizing jerry , and he was the first and ultimate auteur...but i love jerry's movies, both as the sidekick to martin and his self done ones

Ya know, people in high radio standing have consistently put down this man and i've listened with interest because i just don't get it.Jerry Lewis, regardless of his personal life, made some very good intertaining movies.More than a few.I like what i see here, agree with his point of view,think that he was just a man dedicated to giving people something they could smile about.The human condition.Thanks,Jerry.

He talks about the most "competent" male critic and sticks to just that, the criticism. He mentions Kael and just has to relate his insecurities to her womanhood. And does it again for the "incompetent" woman critic in NY. Beautiful.

@tonydalcon

7 жыл бұрын

Now you've got something to yak about in the next seminar.

Duct tape is a grips best friend.

Anyone who can produce such a work of genius that is The Nutty Professor can do no wrong in my eyes.......IMO

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

very well said!

Jerry Lewis is a very angry man inside

Pauline Kael (19 de junio de 1919 - 3 de septiembre de 2001) fue una crítica de cine estadounidense, que escribió para la revista The New Yorker entre 1968 y 1991. Era conocida por sus reseñas "ingeniosas, mordaces, muy obstinadas y fuertemente enfocadas";​ sus opiniones a menudo eran contrarias a las de sus contemporáneos. Fue una de las críticas de cine más influyentes de su época.

@gustavoreyes4117

Жыл бұрын

Es mi crítico favorito, y sí, era tal cual como dices, fue uno de los pocos críticos que no se entusiasmó demasiado con Star Wars en su estreno, al mismo tiempo tuvo en mejor estima El imperio contraataca pero no por las razones por las que los fans aman esa cinta, y El retorno del Jedi fue para ella una película absolutamente sin alma, salvo por un par de ocurrencias. Igualmente no parecía encontrar mucho placer en el cine de Kubrick, pero por ejemplo, en contra de lo que muchos esperarían, celebró la visión multicolor, campy y caricaturesca de aquella versión de Flash Gordon donde Queen hizo el soundtrack. Sus comentarios eran bastante impredecibles. Me gusta mucho como escribía, independiente de si estoy de acuerdo o no con algunos de sus comentarios. Sin embargo ese honestidad e ingenio le procuraron muchos detractores, acá mismo en los comentarios se pueden leer varios comentarios tachándola de persona sin criterior sólo porque se atrevió a hacer comentarios negativos sobre películas "consagradas".

Ah.. the year was 1972

@iantara As Orson Welles said "He's been coming on as a great thinker. This must be stopped." The pretentiousness begins when you click on play and ends (in this clip) nine minutes and twenty two seconds later.

@skinwalkerxxx Very true!

@termsofusepolice I know right? You could see it all over his face. Even if it was meant to be a joke, why would you say something like that? Their split most definitely did hurt him. It is said that he never watched their final film together because he said that it hurt him too much.

It could be Kael's colleague at the New Yorker, Renata Adler.

BROWN SHOES THEY DESERVE IT!

Reminds me of Birdman.

he's taller than i thought

Based on what exactly?

To the little bastard himself, Jerry Lewis... who did change the very face of film-making. And to the woman who trail-blazed as a connoisseur and appraiser of the art of film... and now they're both gone. Forever... Let's not cry for them... or ourselves... or for film. Let us be eternally grateful that they ever passed through this lifetime to begin with. They made it... they prospered... and changed the landscape of the arts forever and forever... for eons to come...

Jerry Lewis cool guy.

@AbirTarafdar

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah he's so great. Genius from another time.

@audreysimmonds4873

7 жыл бұрын

love him, sexy, witty, funny , intelligent, great combination oozes sex appeal .........

i wanna know who's the OTHER NY female critic to whom he's referring.

Lewis is (was) sometimes undervalued-he could be funny (M & L club bits, scenes from Nutty and Bell Boy), a good actor (King of Comedy), and some directorial innovations-but I feel he pretty much has the reputation he deserves, which is mostly “meh.” I respect his fair treatment of the greatest film critic, Kael.

@levanyzzuf I agree!!!

4:55 Was he referring to Judith Crist or Wanda Hale?

@zackerycooper7602

23 күн бұрын

Would be Judith Crist, wouldn't it? Who is Wanda Hale?

Rona Barrett, maybe?

Judith Crist??

He is funny, but my heart aches, that he did not care about his six sons!😰

Jerry Lewis is a great example of someone who from time and time became so full of himself because of fame.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

No, It was mainly because of his insecurities that he carried with him from childhood! I love the man !

acourse. dat's it stargate...thx

Now that he's dead I don't mind saying, boy was he dull.

only recently has jerry really aged, mostly due to his weight battles and illnesses.he doesn't look 46 here.

or maybe Kathleen Carrol

"It's either The Three Stooges, or this tall Jew.. go.. you know.."

He IS smart-and he IS smarmy -and even his worst mid-60's fare made many boring young saturday afternoons all the better....

Pauline Kael reviewing Jerry Lewis???!!! that's comedy.

Sometimes he sorta looks and sounds like John Travolta

The man was a genius but of course the fucking critics didn’t get it!

Lewis never acted as well as when he was "himself." That's all I get from this. I don't believe, maybe, 95% of it. Only when he talks about Martin do I trust what he's saying. Few other things. Rest is bullshit. But it's still great stuff.

Does anyone know who this New York female "incompetent" critic is?

New ice cream flavor: CHERRY LEWIS

If you do something well, u don't have to tell people. U let the work speak 4 itself. U never see Sinatra, Dean, Bing etc dissecting their material: songs, movies etc. No one cares. Fans just wanna be entertained.

Thank you for standing up for Jerry. I didn't want to read whatever trash that person wrote and I won't. Jerry is wonderful, the best. Also --it's high past time that he got all the awards that he deserves. From the Academy awards, he deserves the Lifetime Achievement Award, the technical award --for having created the camera video assist; for the Irving Thalberg award ---and for the Jean Hersholt. FINALLY they see fit to give it to Jerry --The Jean Hersholt, at LEAST. This year, on Feb. 22.

He looks like Russell Crowe.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

no he doesn't! Why do you say that?? Jl was a good looking man!

I think as a movie critic, Pauline Kael is a great food critic.

@Scott93205 +1

I would gladly let this "Jew", at this point, have his barbaric lust with me. Quite handsome, tall, intelligent. That is sexual dynamite!

This poster doesn't know what snoozes means.

Such a shame that he comes across as arrogant.

did they smoke a lot in this time period? Was cancer not a issue? its crazy how they felt their "coolness" revolved around smoking, its always in movies in this time frame and interviews

@brettwyatt7165

8 жыл бұрын

cigarettes and alcohol were normal accessories to adulthood before the late 90s . I used to smoke and everybody I knew smoked I can remember every household had a collection of ashtrays. it just goes to show how powerful culture is and how we follow it without realising .

@lynnturman8157

8 жыл бұрын

They knew it was bad for you but back then it wasn't as looked down upon as it is now. Seeing people smoke back then was like watching people chew gum now. No big deal. Times have changed.

@tonydalcon

7 жыл бұрын

oh brother...

Wonder why Kael didn`t like Jerry Lewis?. Many Jewish critics while decent writers have vast pretensions and tend to dislike Jewish comics no matter how brilliant. This could be construed thus as antisemitism. On the other hand Lewis is a god to the French. He is a god to them. And to my mind, as an American living in Britain, he is a god.

Jerry has the balls to pick on someone else's wardrobe?! :D

Pauline Kael wouldn't even know what GOOD is even if she could have licked on it. The same Pauline Kael who said about Stanley Kubrick's "2001 - A Space Odyssey" that it was pretty much the most boring thing she ever saw. Let that sink in for a moment. And THOSE people then pretend because THEY don't like it, they are in the right and their opinion weights harder than everyone else's. And that's why i never give a damn what Critics say because they are ALWAYS wrong.

I love the way he pontificates over the junk he produced.....pure crap.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

Lawrence Fishberg, you are a lonely person who spends his time watching all Jerry Lewis''s videos and make nasty comments about him when in reality, you are obviously and clearly obsessed with him! That's pretty sad! You should just get a life! Maybe a job? Not all jobs are difficult! You should try! Something easy! It must be hard for you to watch all these videos of the great Jerry Lewis and the amazing stuff that he did . Envy is a terrible thing..

He became arrogant later. I hated him because he was so jealous of Dean Martin. Tht was the cause of the breakup/he'd walk all over Dean's lines and singing. I have never seen him serious and was actually handsome--never saw it before.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

Kathy Kautzman, He was never jealous of Dino and it wasn't the cause of their break up! LOL . Actually Dino hated that the critics would only pay attention to Jerry and not him! That was one of the reasons that lead to the split. There were so many outside forces that lead to that split as well! Not sure why people depict Dino as an angel and Jerry as a monster! When a relationship is over it is never only one man's fault. Jerry took care of the writing for the team, the business part, and pretty much everything while Dean only played golf. All I am saying is that there were numerous factors involved. It wasn't just Jerry!

I can rap Pauline Kael, Jerry. This is the woman who called 2001: A Space Odyssey "a monumentally unimaginative movie." What a dullard.

@tonydalcon

7 жыл бұрын

I think it was a little too imaginative...

Pauline Kael said 2001: A Space Odyssey was “unimaginative”-She can be dismissed. Cool to see Jerry Lewis back in the day. Where are these shows today? Don’t exist.

@Kareragirl

Жыл бұрын

"Where are these shows today? Don't exist." And you say this being on KZread? The 21st century called, TV is out, the Internet is in. There's plenty of content like this on KZread.

His godawful movies have been relegated to obscurity.

Jerry's films were bad....face it, fans.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

but I bet you watched all of them just like you watched all of his videos! LOOOOOL

Jerry Lewis isn't quite correct about Pauline Kael. Kael's attack on Orson Welles was one of the most intellectually dishonest acts by a critic. She lost all credibility on that score. She was also completely clueless about John Cassavetes' work. She did an interview with Stan Brakhage that was one of the most egregiously insulting things I've ever heard, and Brakhage was way too patient and nice to her, she was a complete schmuck. Kael was a jumped-up piss-ant, a no-talent.