I continue on saying that the movie clip ought to be shown. It is part of the wonderful night we are having with these two. Mr. Carson is the best. He allows the guest to fill the space. He makes the guest confortable. Thanks.

@melindarozas1334

Жыл бұрын

I agree!! They need to show the movie clips!!

Ok, but can we talk about the switch into French these two did? Hilarious but subtly really intelligent.

I remember seeing this live. Martin and Lewis were my aunt's favorite comedians. She never missed a moment when they were on TV. Lewis and Carson played so well off the other.

This was just wonderful to watch...Thanks for bringing back the memories.

@mariedefonzo5104

Жыл бұрын

P0

The old days were great actors and comedians.

@scottmoore1614

Жыл бұрын

Such pros and legends. These two were great together.

It's so good to see a video of Jerry Lewis on the Johnny Carson Show. I worked a Jerry Lewis Telethon in Minneapolis, MN for one weekend. That was a blast!! I miss Jerry and Johnny. RIP Jerry and Johnny. You two were and still are the best.

@markmoscatello9461

Жыл бұрын

Melissa I agree with you. Too much of a hassle for licensing to do it. It should be allowed though

@user-dm3rm6tz6k

8 ай бұрын

Did you know what he was like

@melissawarfield

8 ай бұрын

​@@user-dm3rm6tz6kno l do not know what Jerry Lewis was like. Please tell me.

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

@@melissawarfield He was a narcissist, and a bully. Mean as all getout. Ask Dean Martin about that

Notice the way that Carson is completely comfortable being the straight man. He made the guests the center of attention.

@hbmento8102

Жыл бұрын

Carson had a knack for being the straight man, but also inserting his own humor when it was called for. Fallon could learn a thing or two 😒

@catmother4214

Жыл бұрын

Carson was the best !!! 💛💛💛 Jerry Lewis was a nasty man especially cruel to his first family. ☹️☹️☹️

@93Jubilee

Жыл бұрын

@@catmother4214 Yes. Lewis's oldest son, Gary, always tries to conceal his ill feelings about his father in interviews, but it's crystal clear. Very sad

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

@@catmother4214 Yes he was indeed. In real life, he was VERY nasty. There were MANY stories about him. He disinherited his own children and left everything to his last wife.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

Yeah! 😆 He lived for it. Especially when Bob Newhart was on.

I sure miss Jerry's Telethons. I would try to stay up as long as I could as a young man.

@thebluedragon1532

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes!! Always counted my change to send in ..

@rogeredwards4871

Жыл бұрын

yes sir...me too🥲

@jillkjv3816

Жыл бұрын

Jerry raised 2.6 Billion dollars for muscular dystrophy research. No chump change there.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

@@jillkjv3816 Yep. And they ended up firing him after all those years. Once of the reasons I HATE big corporations.

@scottmiller6495

Жыл бұрын

I loved Jerry Lewis and in spite of what people think about him now (and they don't know the whole story), he was brilliant and a terrific entertainer and with his Labor day Telethons for over 40 years that alone should be enough for people to respect him, and I do and always Will PERIOD!!!!!

My grandma’s cousin was a sound engineer on many commercials, and one of his many stories concerned Jerry Lewis, who was the star of one of those commercials. He told me that Jerry came into the studio on the first day of shooting, introduced himself to every single member of the crew, and remembered every single person’s name for the duration of the job.

@blakeh6250

Жыл бұрын

He came to my first navy ship in San Diego, knew the captain and ate dinner in officers wardroom. I got to serve him as a new sailor on board in 92. He was a cool dude.. 😎

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

I heard a totally different story about his personality. I knew a lady who's husband had been the head of security in a fancy hotel in New York City. Jerry Lewis was staying there one time and this head of security had to ride in elevator with him up to his floor. He introduced himself to Lewis, telling him how much he admired him and his movies. Lewis snapped back at him 'how DARE you talk to me BOY!' When they reached the floor as Lewis was about to get out, he pressed all the buttons in the elevator so it would stop at all the floors. Despite the good work he did with MD, from everything I have read, he was a major asshole in real life. I mean, the man even disinherited his own children!

@RyanHLee-nc7hg

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 Well, I'm sorry that happened to your friend's husband. From what I've read, it seems to me that there were two Jerrys--the kind, generous, grateful one, and the irascible, rude, pretentious, cruel one. I don't know exactly how someone can contain two such extremes within himself, but it seems to be the case!

@93Jubilee

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 I'm so sorry that happened to your relative, how awful! Was racism part of his ugly condescension? I've read other comments that allude to that. He was so vile -- it's obvious from watching his interaction here with Carson.

@RyanHLee-nc7hg

Жыл бұрын

@@93Jubilee And yet, there are also many wonderful stories about him. It's a mistake to ignore his complexity.

Growing up in the '60's Jerry Lewis was my comic idol. He was so silly and goofy and made me feel it was ok to be like that around people, and own it. The Nutty Professor is still one of my all time favorite movies.

@ZulcanPrime

Жыл бұрын

Mine are; 'The Bell Boy' and "Whose Minding The Store" movies.

@maliant16

26 күн бұрын

Maybe we need another zany superstar to make it cool again.

I went to a special program in Los Angeles with Jerry Lewis and he was very down to earth.

@botanicalspotlight

Ай бұрын

Hahahahaha

Good memories with the movies together with Dean Martin, the films arranged by Count Basie, the Telethons and much more! Breathed work!

"I'm a marvelous moron." --- Jerry Lewis

I didn’t know abt Jerry Lewis till I watch his movies and fell in love with his actings. He is a talented actor n comedian

My favorite Jerry film has always been The Disorderly Orderly. Hilarious. I never tire of it. 👍

@RetiredSailor60

Жыл бұрын

Many of his movies are on Pluto TV right now

@markmoscatello9461

Жыл бұрын

I like that one too. I have to go with either the bellboy

@jillkjv3816

Жыл бұрын

@@markmoscatello9461 My second favorite of his films after The Disorderly Orderly is The Geisha Boy. It came out the year I was born, 1958. So touching and beautiful. Not really a ribald comedy like the others, but more gentle and sweet.

HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED. I MISS THESE GREAT ONES!

If you know anything about Hollywood and it's narrative. Actors and in film it's the extreme of difference that keeps you glued to a movie. Lewis was that in real life.

Say what you will, and you have, but at least let's not forget his years of humanitarian work for patients of Muscular Dystrophy. Give him SOME credit, and I say this as I recognize the malevolence he visited on his "first" family/children. Either way, RIP Jerry ( and Johnny ).

@PacoOtis

Жыл бұрын

CORRECTION! Dude! Do your homework. My sister worked for SERTOMA (Service to Mankind) and it was decided Lewis would get their "man of the year" award and she had the task to make the arrangements and among them was to verify Lewis did NOT get any sort of reimbursement She ended up speaking to the attorney of Sertoma who told her Lewis was very well compensated for his work. He went on to explain it was just a "business deal" between Lewis and the MD folks, and nothing more. Also, it just happens that Lewis was a rather horrible person. Best of luck to all of us!

@scottmiller6495

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100 💯 percent and let him rest in peace he was a brilliant man and entertainer and with his Labor day Telethons for over 40 years that alone should be enough for people to give him respect, PERIOD!!!!!

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

@@PacoOtis WHAT "correction"? I watched those telethons for many years, as did so many of the other commenters here. It was indeed, without a doubt, Jerry Lewis who hosted those telethons, and stayed live on the air for 24 hours to do it. Collectively, he raised over $2B for the charity. Whatever you're rambling on about has nothing to do with my original comment. I understand and accept why so many people lost respect for him, but even those folks will absolutely give him credit for his humanitarian work. Take care.

@lonmcq7317

Жыл бұрын

... And after raising BILLIONS of dollars for MDA over all of these years, what have they accomplished?... Summer Camps and braces... Jerry was a shill for this bullshit and got rich doing it... What an asshole...

Amazing that Jerry Lewis made it to age 91 with all his health problems.

He was one of my favourite.

@Jameslopez5682

Жыл бұрын

Hello Anna how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

The void of missing this era intensifies

@jesse75

Жыл бұрын

Hollywood is now woke.

@brendanjobe6895

Жыл бұрын

@@jesse75 It's sound asleep

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

I’ve said all of my adult life that I was born too late.

@jesse75

Жыл бұрын

@@joebiggs4387 I so agree. If you read Chuck Yeager his book. He said more than anything he was born at the right time in life. He himself admitted he wasn't all that special. If you look at history. Take as many people that we know who are famous, like Evel Knievel, Audie Murphy, as many as you think of, look at their birthday, you will see a pattern. The first pattern I noticed was how many famous people born in 1880 to 1890's.

@brendanjobe6895

Жыл бұрын

@@joebiggs4387 I wasn't, but nearly was. I do remember when Johnny Carson's hair was dark brown, then a touch of gray around the sideburns, the one day ... full-blown white!

His impression of Frank Sinatra is a scream in the nutty proffesor..

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

Jealous of Dean's close friendship with Frank.

I will always love Jerry Lewis. He never failed to make me laugh. It's really sad how people are so quick to judge others, especially star's. Try walking around the corner in their shoes... Betcha can't!?! ❤️

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

Judge? How so?

@mackdaddyg321

Жыл бұрын

Off camera, jerry was not a nice man.

@koreandramaclassics9124

Жыл бұрын

@@mackdaddyg321 Says someone who never met him.

@koreandramaclassics9124

Жыл бұрын

@Tamar Hannah Whipkey Most politicians have been belligerent but I bet you voted for some of them. Get off your high horse and quit judging a dead man who can't defend himself.

@kellycaviness4850

10 ай бұрын

Exactly!!! I loved Jerry so much! He was the absolute best, an innovater, he inspired many a comic but one thing is for sure, they'll never be Jerry. He was in a class by himself, they'll never ever be anybody that comes close

It's weird hearing the original music when Jerry entered after being used to the version on Antenna TV which replaced Doc's music with a stock track.

RIP Jerry Lewis 😔 RIP Johnny Carson and ED 😔🍁♈

Aaahhh, that famous scientist, Emile Zola….

A friend and I always call each other "Hey, Laydeeeeee", so for Christmas last yr, I had someone make his bellboy pic, by woodburning, with the words "Hey, Laydeeeeee" on it. It's on her front door, and it came out great...lol.

what a great French speaking bit

He became increasingly abrasive in his subsiding years.

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

and abusive

@AuthorLLaurence

Ай бұрын

He had to deal with moronic critics.

Great entertainer!

Why put this beast on KZread 😊

Lewis’s shamelessness has been exhaustingly documented by his kids, ex-wife, girl friends, “friends”, co-stars, business partners…

@jefferyfarr6542

7 ай бұрын

Let he who has no sin, cast the first stone. I enjoy the body of his work. Jerry pioneered the use of the teleprompter among other things. He was a genius.

@AuthorLLaurence

Ай бұрын

He'was still a brilliant and entertaining genius.

@donnikubbitz2146

Ай бұрын

Yep, quite fitting actually.

He is not that person he is a hateful person 😊

Two wild comediZens.

When I was 5 I thought he was more than great.He really was like a very small, crazy child. That was his “genius”. His odd adult personality was a way to cope with that child in him. He had the two voices.

Kind of over the edge nasty when he stuck his tongue at Johnny when Johnny turned away from him.

The GREATEST comedian ever on the GREATEST late night show ever with the GREATEST late night host ever....NEVER will we see greatness like this again

just realized that eventually I ve watched more Carson than Ed MacMahon himself

He had his flaws but did raise millions for MD.

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

Exactly.

@SueProv

Жыл бұрын

I don't like him but he raised 2.5 billion

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

@@SueProv Yes, thank you.

@blakeh6250

Жыл бұрын

2.6 billion total

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

More than 'flaws.' The guy was a major league dickhead in real life who was nasty and abused people. He even disinherited his own children and left everything to his last wife who was a gold digger!

Johnny and Jerry were both 58 years old here.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

Geez that's how old I am NOW and I was in college when this aired. How time goes by and so fast too!

@93Jubilee

Жыл бұрын

@Mike Raffphone It's an interesting fact about the eras in which they both grew up, how much they'd have had in common -- but the interview reveals how much they did not, too!

Very bright man.

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

According to him he was.

@chardiemacdennis7218

3 ай бұрын

@@susantunbridge4612Jerry Lewis was a PUNK

The prestigious Legion of Honor in France is a high distinction awarded to those who have rendered a great service to the nation or to society through their talents. He expresses all of France's gratitude for what these people have accomplished in their lives in all areas. Be it politics, science, art or war. A professor of medicine can receive it like a rock and roll singer or a clown like Jerry Lewis.

100 x Jim Carry = 1 Jerry Lewis

🙌🏼 i loved jl

Errand boy is my favorite Jerry Lewis movie. He did some great films after his split with Dean Martin.

Martin and Lewis colgate comedy hour are classics. They were live and when they went off script it was comedy at its best,

Love him as nutty professor

I used to really enjoy Jerry Lewis and his antics, but after learning of his life and of his original children, I pretty much lost respect for him. How a person can just ignore their own children is beyond me.

@Dakotako

Жыл бұрын

Wait until you learn about the commie trash that wrote “this land is your land”.

@thebluedragon1532

Жыл бұрын

I loved him until I seen in Atlantic City. And he was really nasty to people. . .

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

That’s darn right! He ignored his own children but left his stepdaughter very wealthy.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@@thebluedragon1532 yes. I’ve heard many times he was not a nice man.

@pampoole3815

Жыл бұрын

same thoughts after hearing how he really was....

the one and the only . . . . . . . .

That was fun. I wanted to see the film clip, lol.

He was a better dramatic actor than a comediam. Very good in “The King Of Comedy” and the episode he did in “Law And Order”.

@xanajak

6 ай бұрын

Watch his arc in Wise Guy as Ron Silver's father in the Jewish Garment District of NYC. Phenomenal chops. Stanley Tucci is in the arc as well. It's as good as TV got.

Grateful for his comedy

He was sooo loved in France. What he did then and was called a no talent idiot, people like Jim Carry (spelling??) Win Academy Award nominations. Funny movie is "the Disorderly Orderly"

I used to work at a restaurant in Ft. Lauderdale in 1978 called Ma Pomme. I was fortunate to have prepared Jerry's dinner many times. He was a very fun man to be around & talk to.

Wow! Johnny wasn't joking about the film when he said "here's a short excerpt"

@Jameslopez5682

Жыл бұрын

Hello Carolina how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family

Did i hear that good? the french Gov. gave him some Congressional Medal of Honor? for being a foreign comedian? Now,this is a laughing matter.

7:16 lol

Jerry Lewis came to Temple University when I was student there. He could act the clown, and be serious as a heart attack, which he had. An interesting man, you can ask Dean Martin.

So far it’s almost unanimous. Not many here right now like this man.

@koreandramaclassics9124

Жыл бұрын

Unless it's just one or two people with multiple screen names.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@@koreandramaclassics9124 that’s always a possibility. Can’t rule anything out. Then again there were about 15 people who had all made comments around the same time. This is when the video first came out. But…Who knows?

pause at 2:03 - Johnny was being very slick with that middle finger.

@painkiller1968

Жыл бұрын

That doesn't mean anything.

@percyvolnar8010

Жыл бұрын

@@painkiller1968 Yes, it does. Americans rarely point with their middle finger and if they do, its meant to offend. Jerry was annoyed with him and that was Carson's way of firing back. Watch every Carson appearance Jerry has ever made. Their chemistry has always been a bit tense.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

@@percyvolnar8010 What was Jerry annoyed with him FOR in your opinion? And if Carson didn't like him, why did he keep having him on the show?

@93Jubilee

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 Carson wasn't in charge of canceling the guests on his show. It's surprising, but true. He didn't like Bob Hope, either, and he was often on the show because he drew viewers.

@percyvolnar8010

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 no. Look for a Carson video called 'The dissing of Jer'. Its cold-blooded. Watch it, then watch every Lewis appearance on carson and you'll see 'It'. Every time jerry gets on carson, he tries to flaunt some serious accomplishment of his and carson goes in with jokes. In some subtle way. one-upping. as i said in my last response "Their chemistry has always been a bit tense." Meaning, on the edge of disdain. Carson was an old professional. Even if he didn't like someone, he still had them on his show if they were 'relevant'.

I am the same!

He lived 33 years after that interview, meaning the surgery worked well.....

@shrimpflea

6 ай бұрын

And the diet

👍

I remember when Jerry guest hosted the Tonight Show. I thought he was funny but my Mom couldn't stand him lol

@jillkjv3816

Жыл бұрын

Probably because he was Jewish.

@93Jubilee

Жыл бұрын

@@jillkjv3816 That's a very ugly assumption

@jillkjv3816

Жыл бұрын

@@93Jubilee Anti-Semitism is ugly.

@ralphshelley9586

Жыл бұрын

Needs to be center of attention. Rooney said a room full of comedians is a sad place. Groucho was not comfortable around other comics.

@koreandramaclassics9124

Жыл бұрын

@@93Jubilee But spot on.

Correction: Jerry got Emile Zola wrong. He was not a 'great scientist', he was a great novelist.

I thought Robbins Williams was a whack job.................... This guy is on 3 levels up from that 🤣

@drbernstein3073

Жыл бұрын

Yes. And I never thought Williams’s was funny. But like Jerry he was a great dramatic actor. See Jerry in King of Comedy the Scorsese film with Robert Dinero.

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you're right, I just made a similar comment. But consider that Lewis's fan base was generational, while Williams' antics were just plain embarrassing, although unfortunately attributed to his substance abuse and mental health issues. RIP to all of them.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

I didn't think Williams was funny in his earlier days. For instance, I couldn't stand him as Mork. I thought it was silly and stupid. But by the time Mrs. Doubtfire came around, his comedy was much better. However, I enjoyed his non comedic rolls much better. I thought he was outstanding in Dead Poets Society and as the doctor in Awakenings.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@@stellarocquie7957 like I’ve said. Robin Williams was Jonathan Winters on cocaine. But Winters was much funnier.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 yes, his dramatic roles were fantastic. There’s one I have in mind but I can’t remember the name of it. He played a psychologically disturbed man who develops film for people. He becomes obsessed with the other leading character in the movie, a woman. Very good movie! Then there’s a movie where he dies and goes into the afterlife. It also stars Cuba Gooding Junior. Of course the name of that one fails me also. Apologies.

Dean Martin was right in 1956. Good career move, Dino.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@Beatnik Dean Martin went on to have more hits than Frank Sinatra. He also went on to win a Grammy, and an Emmy. Had his own TV variety show for 10 years. He was also a good dramatic actor. These things would not have happened if he stayed with Jerry Lewis as a comedy team.

@shrimpflea

6 ай бұрын

Jerry Lewis went on to do many excellent dramatic roles too, so put that your pipe and smoke it.@@joebiggs4387

It's jerry Lewis omg.

Whether you realize it or not, you're here for 2:42.

Jerry lewis um cara legal

@CodeineSkeeter

Күн бұрын

Lies

OH THE LEGION LEJOHN OF HONER IS THE BOOTLICKER AWARD

You can not compare the Legion of Honor to the Medal of Honor.

@GeorgAndexlerAndexler

Жыл бұрын

But, isn't it a high honours in France, which is all that matters.

@mattm7798

Жыл бұрын

True they are different awards for different things

@1rjbrjb

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Thank you. I thought I'd made that point. The congressional medal of honor is for heroism. Profoundly ignorant and offensive comparison.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

Who received the medal of honor?

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know who received the medal of honor. But Johnny received the presidential medal of freedom. Jerry Lewis received the French Legion of honor. A pretty big difference. Unless you’re from France I suppose…lol

Jerry loves the attention.

Jerrys comedy was childish and embarrassing. As far as my dad was concerned it was forbidden to watch Jerry in my house growing up . Now as an adult I can see why. Jerry Lewis was also known for sexual assaults and leaving NOTHING to his five children instead leaving his 50 million dollar estate to his second wife and daughter. His ego was so large it mattered not who he hurt in this world, even his own children.

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

He was a narcissist, the worst kind. Bully, abusive, vain, and soooo jealous of Dean Martin's looks and talent and charm.

Nooooo he’s kool , mi dude says yessie ibarra

One abandoned his own kids, the other has a room only for himself whole his family sleeps elsewhere

*THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO PAY FOR HIS SONS FUNERAL. AND 50 MILLION DOLLAR ESTATE, GAVE NOTHING TO REMAINING 5 SONS OR THEIR GRANDCHILDREN OR FIRST WIFE*

@niltomega2978

10 ай бұрын

Jerry Lewis was an ass. Numerous women also said he sexually assaulted them.

@jeanieirwin4747

5 ай бұрын

Definitely.

@zooyork512

11 күн бұрын

It was a different time and you don't know what the relationship or dynamic he had towards his family, maybe they were money thirsty shitty people and he wanted to keep what he created and earned away from them

@tonymontana4284

Күн бұрын

Why are you watching such a horrible person being interviewed ?

"Four packs of cigarettes per day?" And he said Wendy's was the problem? Yeah...Right!

@pamelah6431

7 ай бұрын

He did say he cut cigs, too.

@lorenzoquesada9972

2 ай бұрын

he said he stopped smoking, not cut it down

Incredibly innovative filmmaker (Scorsese studied his film book he wrote and taught from at USC) and as a teen decked an anti-semitic principal right out of his office window. My kind of guy :)

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

Who are you speaking about that was an innovative filmmaker, taught at USC and decked a principal? Scorsese or Lewis?

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@@retroguy9494 I was wondering the same exact thing. A bit confusing.

JOHNNY CARSON 23 DE OCTUBRE DE 1925 23 DE ENERO DE 2005 79 AÑOS

Jerry Lewis (de nacimiento Joseph o Jerome Levitch,​ Newark, Nueva Jersey; 16 de marzo de 1926-Las Vegas, Nevada; 20 de agosto de 2017) fue un comediante, actor, cantante, productor de cine, director de cine y guionista estadounidense.

I always thought He was hilarious. I liked him and Dean Martin together.

Us guys old enough sure do remember all these interviews with Johnny. Putting all of the Jerry stories as well as Jonny’s. Jerry was as funny as you get in his skits with Dean. Both are in my hand shadow routine. I want these days and feelings back as a child. Ty

What a legend

Carson: Class and Epic! Lewis: Still can’t forgive what he did to those women!!

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

Did to WHAT Women?

@VideoAmericanStyle

Жыл бұрын

@@stellarocquie7957 The ones he allegedly assaulted on and off set, repeatedly. The story was covered in depth a few years ago. Lines up with countless accounts of his other reprehensible behavior when the cameras were off, too.

@keithnorris8982

Жыл бұрын

@@VideoAmericanStyle He could be an asshole.

@bobcosmic

Жыл бұрын

Harvey Weinstein before Harvey Weinstein !

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

He did a lot more than just those women! No pun intended. He was a major league dickhead in real life. Nasty and abusive. He even disinherited his own children!

Once Dean left he waz done

Do you guys have fun making fun of me back in as well

My daddy goes out and eats at fast food places everyday and has been for over 50 years...He was a truck driver and just got use to it... he's 80 years old and is in better health than myself who tried to eat right..go figure

*RIDICULOUSNESSS WOULD NEVER WORK TODAY, OR ANY DAY SINCE THE 80'S. ACTUALLY CANT BELIEVE THE STUPID ACT MADE ANYONE LAUGH. OOO BOY MAKE A STRANGE VOICE*

@IshDeelish Amazing is the word. Even as a little kid I didn't think he was funny. And I LIKE the Three Stooges! Something about Jerry Lewis.....

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

I feel as you do. And I like the Stooges as well!

Loved his MD work hated everything else he did

The French LOH is not the same as the American CMOH which you are awarded for military battle heroism ONLY, and can only go to those who fought in battle. It's more like the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the US.

@Tark75ifty

Жыл бұрын

Steve Conkey: The prestigious Legion of Honor in France is a high distinction awarded to those who have rendered a great service to the nation or to society through their talents. He expresses all of France's gratitude for what these people have accomplished in their lives in all areas. Be it politics, science, art or war. A professor of medicine can receive it like a rock and roll singer or a clown like Jerry Lewis.

@steveconkey7362

Жыл бұрын

@@Tark75ifty Like I said the CMOH is ONLY for military heroism.

Weird to think they’re all dead now.

@donnawingard4459

Жыл бұрын

Did not know that

Notice Johnny doesn't find Jerry very funny he doesn't la at Jerry's antics

There has been much written about this extremely talented and complex man, some good and some very unflattering. I have viewed videos of him as a senior at one of his one man shows being somewhat nasty and uncivil to a few of his adoring fans who asked him questions from the audience. It was surprising and a little shocking to see him behaving in this manner. I read that his children received nothing from his estate which was a considerable one. My wife was at one of his telethons years ago and told me he was crude and definitely unfunny in comments he made to the younger women there. No one can question his talent and ability to entertain, but there apparently was another side to Jerry Lewis that was anything but humorous.

I've been watching these clips now for a few months and I'm trying to figure out what the fella on the left of the guest does?

@stellarocquie7957

Жыл бұрын

Ed McMahon was Johnny's announcer/side kick/straight man for decades on the show. Great comedy pair in their own right.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

@@stellarocquie7957 True! 👍

I respected him for his humanitarian work for muscular dystrophy but lost respect for his arrogance later in life. He wanted to be greater than Dean Martin, but his greatness was as an actor was comedy.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

Right. Dino could do comedy and drama. As we all know he could sing very well, and won a Grammy as well as having many hit songs. Dean Martin did television as well as the silver screen. Much more accomplished than Lewis. Jerry Lewis was adored in France. Whaa…whaa… I’m sure Mr. Lewis hated Dean for it. And Dean had the class to show up on Jerry’s telethon. Do you think Jerry would have done the same?

@your_average_joe5781

Жыл бұрын

@@joebiggs4387 That's a good question 🤔

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

@@your_average_joe5781 hey! Cool name. L O L. Personally I don’t think Jerry would have done the same. If you get a chance to watch it again. Watch Jerry Lewis carefully. Dean is smiling and Jerry looks like he doesn’t know what to say. How about thank you! I think Jerry always thought he was the better of the two. But with all the success that Dino had, it probably made Jerry very insecure. Not that Jerry didn’t have success but the late 60s and 1970s belonged to Dean Martin.

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

According to Normal Lear, Dean Martin was a lot funnier than Lewis.

I recall seeing him visit the Childrens Hospital in Connecticut. He was in one door and out the other when the other celebs stayed and spent a lot of time with the kids. In real life he was not a nice person and I believe Dean's continued success after the split ate him up.

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

Yea he was a major dickhead in real life. Abusive and nasty. The only good thing he really did was all the money he raised for MD with his telethons. But as my late grandmother used to say....no one is ALL bad. There is SOME good in everyone.

@joebiggs4387

Жыл бұрын

Oh of course it did. I saw an interview with him on television and the interviewer asked him if Dean Martin could have succeeded where Jerry Lewis succeeded. And he looked at the camera and said “oh yes! Definitely!“. He then looked away and rolled his eyes as if to say“Dean Martin couldn’t carry my socks.” And I believe this was after Dean Martin was big enough to come onto Jerry’s telethon and shake Jerry’s hand. Yeah, Jerry was a real class act! 🙄

@robd1329

Жыл бұрын

He was an Aweful person in real life. Even his own kids despised him

@retroguy9494

Жыл бұрын

@@robd1329 Yea I said that like 2 weeks ago. But he did have SOME good in him. I also feel it was wrong to disinherit his kids and leave everything to his last gold-digger wife.

I don’t like the later older, Jerry Lewis it started around this time

As a kid I thought he was funny… because it’s cartoonish humor. As an adult I mostly can’t stand him and his true person (a narcissist) comes through in many of these interviews. His MDA stuff, though generating significant funding, used children as props. Lewis did it so he could elicit the adulation from the masses: “what a generous man Jerry is.” #fake

@susantunbridge4612

7 ай бұрын

The telethon board fired him eventually