These guys were what you call "career performers" they live to entertain the people at any cost. Today actors live to entertain themselves.

@thegiftedone

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant.

@thegiftedone

Жыл бұрын

I completely agree…..with exceptions of Conan Obrien and Martin Short

In truth Johnny Carson was a raging alcoholic, and a bitter, bitter, cruel man. Many people had horror stories about Johnny being drunk and saying and doing the most hateful things to wife, family, friends and coworkers. They said that in private Johnny Carson was nothing like his on-air personality

@Sensei.shonuff

Ай бұрын

Jerry Lewis was way worst ....he was a rapist n treated ppl like trash

Carole Wayne is the blond chick that escorts him out. She was everywhere on TV in the late 60s and early 70s.

@tj.espygil4544

2 жыл бұрын

She eventually committed suicide.

Put in Rickles and Groucho and you'd have the smartest,funniest guys in comedy history.

Tension-schmension! These were the greatest of the great; this is the same thing that used to be done when Vaudevillians met on the road...R.I.P.

LEwis used that hair tonic even in 1972 when "The Dry Look: was in!

Johnny introduced Jerry with practically no enthusiasm. None. There's tensions.

I don’t think Jerry had many true friends. His eyes are glazed. This was during his addiction days.

I know Red Skelton isn't in the mix, but when he came to our town for a show it was great. I was just a kid. The next day before he left town, he stopped in at Wendy's. While there, he put on one of his best skits ever and only the people at Wendy's witnessed it.

@dalehood1846

Жыл бұрын

He seemed to be a real class act. What a performer and a real human being. Never was insulting. I have many VHS tapes and DVD's of Red Skelton. Also he dearly loved this country and was NOT SHY about it. His break down of The Pledge Of Allegiance, word by word was historic. Possibly on KZread somewhere. When he did it on his weekly show, thousands wrote in asking for a copy. And as Red Skelton would end his shows, MAY GOD BLESS

"Maybe nobody likes you." PWNED.

The dead- pan stone faces, the one- upmanship, the staring...these are all seasoned comedians applying their trade for one common goal: ENTERTAINMENT.

@gregwatson8219

2 жыл бұрын

Great legends!

@gregwatson8219

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@Sensei.shonuff

Ай бұрын

Do your research

Most people don't realize that these comics could be funny playing it clean (tv and film) or dirty (the club scene). There were essentially two comedy worlds then.I really think most comics can't do a whole show clean anymore. And this isn't dising it's ribbing

@deborahjackson2356

7 жыл бұрын

kdurston1 I always love Jerry Lewis

Jack Benny looks great here; he was originally cast in the Al Lewis role in the film adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" filmed three years later. When Benny became ill and ultimately died, his close friend George Burns, who hadn't made a movie in 35 years, was cast in the role opposite Walter Matthau and won an Oscar.

Jerry was THE most insecure celebrity I've ever seen, as witnessed here. It's uncomfortable to watch.

@gregwatson8219

2 жыл бұрын

Ur uncomfortable Rick

@chrissytina6379

2 жыл бұрын

He just come across unlikeable

All puffing away...old school

If you could put this group of entertainers together again. Jack Benny, George Burns, Joey Bishop, Jerry Lewis ! 360 years of entertaining.

Humans are very capacious beings. They can manage to be generous humanitarians and jerks at the same time.

@yowzephyr

Жыл бұрын

@@SteveGad There's a secondary definition, not as often used. 2. Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal. A capacious mind.

Apparently a tongue-in-cheek music cue when Jerry entered, to the tune of "By Myself" (I suppose "without Dean").

Seeing this just reminds me once again of how great...how truly, truly great...I am.

@sky-et6md

4 жыл бұрын

omg !! LOL!!🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

@evadunn4894

2 жыл бұрын

Weirdo

@evadunn4894

2 жыл бұрын

Your breath smells like crap

thank you so much for shareing this with us . i havent seen this befor even though the sound a bit off it is still a pleshure to watch lol!

The bumpers with Doc Severinsent and the NBC Orchestra rocked! Thanks for sharing this rare gem.

Heave weights of wit... not the filth out there today.. These guys put current entire Hollywood to shame...Miss them... They kept us on our toes......

@daveinindy

7 жыл бұрын

Classic comedic actors - but wit wasn't exactly on display here. Only Carson seemed agile during this clip. The heavy weights of wit during this time period (through today)? Reiner, Brooks, Allen, Simon, ... even Lewis' long-time partner Dean Martin had a great wit.

@chocolatcats

7 жыл бұрын

they didn't have to be on display here...

@daveinindy

7 жыл бұрын

keri caye - would have been better if they'd just conversed. As it was, their attempts at humor came across as lame. Sammy Maudlin/Bobbi Bittman -level lame

@ThePieguysKitchen

7 жыл бұрын

Love the SCTV reference, Were you waiting for Johnny LaRue to make cameo too? ;-)

@daveinindy

7 жыл бұрын

pieguy3 - if only ... still miss John Candy

Wow!! Great to see George, Jerry and Jack together. I love those guys haha

@softwater88

4 жыл бұрын

Click bait!! No dissing. Just a buncha old farts schmoozing!!

@jimmythemadostrich8947

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry didn't give a f✳✳✳!

THIS WAS CLASSIC TV IN MY DAYS! LOVE LOVE LOVE!

Johnny Carson was funnier than any of them.

@jamesm.3967

Жыл бұрын

Wrong. Jack Benny was the king.

All those legends riffing in one single segment. Late night TV talk is no longer that spontaneously interesting anymore.

This is in no way a diss. It's 100% rib as back then, these guys can hit hard and no one would get butt hurt like nowadays. Sad but, true!

@laurab9867

7 жыл бұрын

... I agree. One perfect example was Don Rickles who was brutal but loved by everyone.

@kramsdrawde8159

2 жыл бұрын

Men ribbing one another years ago was par for the course but now, you may get fired for some of the things we used to do in jest, long story short-- today society and especially the woke have no sense of humor.

@scottaw666

Жыл бұрын

You’re totally correct. John and Jerry were friends. Just another vid title to bust Jerry’s dead balls.

George Burns could own the lot of them if he chose to....

Love. Here's Johnny! Love him, no other like him as a host....2017...He was more than great!

What a classic move by Jack Benny to snap Georg Burns cigar in half! (I bet during commercial break he put the two pieces in his pocket, lol)

@Deutschie

2 жыл бұрын

It was well known that George Burns smoked one of the worst cigars in history. While his contemporaries smoked Havana cigars George puffed away on El Producto cigars. Jack Benny was actually making fun of George Burns being cheap.

No dissing here, more like Joey threatening Jack in an unscripted live show.

These gentlemen are so adorable!!! Very funny and classy from the old days.

Jerry looked like he was hurt and almost in tears after Carson's inappropriately cutting (if very true) remark.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

hayesman76, True! Jerry was hurt! Jerry is unable to hide what he feels! He was always like that! Very emotional and delicate and Carson hurt him especially because they were friends! I don't think he meant it. I think that he was joking, but Jerry felt bad :(

@JasmineSurrealVideos

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that flash of hurt as well, no one likes to be told no one likes them, I've had that myself, and whilst it's true, it does hurt sometimes, and Jerry like me has an expressive face that doesn't hold back how you are feeling. The tragi comic is very true.

@Melinda8162

4 жыл бұрын

@@JasmineSurrealVideos Really? I need to look at that again! I just figured it's part of his schtick! He was good at that too!

@grindle1857

2 жыл бұрын

@@marym5037 you give it, you better accept it

@johngerson7335

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry started the ball breaking, right out of the gate. He could've let up, but didn't until Johnny made him.

Seriously, can nobody nowadays tell when people are joking, or when there's no ill intent in what people are saying? Almost the whole exchange between them was joking.

@byHexted

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think the person who posted this is like someone my age (23) I think you’d have to be older to even possess this clip in he first place

@AmosPressley

2 жыл бұрын

@Christycat35 No. No, they can't. Even among slapstick pros like these, they had an intelligent edge, with a disdain for the "politically incorrect" that is rare today. Humor suffers as a result.

@melissagregoire9278

2 жыл бұрын

I think you could feel the jealousy among them, perhaps from Jerry Lewis the most. Sitting in my own home he alone made me uncomfortable. He had an ax to grind and was going at it full bore. Creepy to me, you can see class here and one who is bereft of any class at all.

@jamesbasham5439

2 жыл бұрын

Generation 280zzzzzzzzzz has no clue what comedy or sarcasm is, that's why they love cancel culture.

@bodichair

2 жыл бұрын

I think Johnny hit the nail on the head. Not many people liked Jerry Lewis.

Terrific! Thanks for posting

Oy. Un-comfortable. Wow. Poor Jerry. I'm guessing that the film he's talking about is "The Day The Clown Cried."

the problem is Jerry thought he was Don Rickles....only he could get away with dissing with humor

@KoKo-eq5tr

7 жыл бұрын

contact1araya only one don rickles, EVER

@vikings844

7 жыл бұрын

contact1araya I though the same thing! Mimicked rickles alot

@susansimpson2181

7 жыл бұрын

koko, thank goodness.

He broke the cigar as part of the gag.

the smoking takes me back to the 70s''when ppl smoked just about anywhere..even in hospitals..just not on the 02 floors...

All of the talent on that stage. When Gentlemen were Gentlemen. Long live Jerry.

@vincentdefeo5917

2 жыл бұрын

Why !!!

@katie195

2 жыл бұрын

Yuch. JL was a creeper and not at all funny.

@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen

Жыл бұрын

@@katie195 To me, some of what he did was hilarious--and brilliant.

@robindore258

10 ай бұрын

No one could stand JL

@kellycaviness4850

6 ай бұрын

@@robindore258Lol yes they could. Dean Martin loved him and so many more

I remember this show, Johnny's 10th anniversary. He had all the greats on like Jack Benny, George Burns and Tony Clifton.

Jerry at his most handsomeness.......sadly all here are deceased.

@marym5037

5 жыл бұрын

yes I love Jerry at that age! However, I think that he was always handsome and sexy! Always! Even when he was 80! The guy exuded sexiness...he couldn't help it! :)

@JasmineSurrealVideos

4 жыл бұрын

I do think he's good looking but the hair is Buddy Love! I found him more appealing when he was younger, not so tanned and more puckish. I didn't see the fuss about Dean Martin tbh I prefer Jerry.

@michealholm2900

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but they had a better life then most of us could ever Imagine!!!!

man i would love to see more of this WOW

@james5460

8 жыл бұрын

+James Johnson The cigar bit is CLASSIC.

@vikings844

7 жыл бұрын

James Except when Benny snapped the cigar in half! Killed the laughs

With all due respect it was Jerry who started with the ribbing & sarcasm. I think Joey Bishop saved Jerry from further on-stage ribbing by pointing out that nobody can hate someone that raises 10 million dollars for charity.

@hayesman76

6 жыл бұрын

ReeseMac I was carefully observing what Joey Bishop's reaction would be. Bishop was a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack which Jerry couldn't be a member of because it included Dean Martin.

@howardmanley3388

5 жыл бұрын

Let’s face it this man was a jerk and never respected people he was in contact with regardless of the good he did for mda

@tommylucy4738

5 жыл бұрын

Jerry Lewis was a horrendous horrible little c@!T !!!! FACT !!

@sky-et6md

4 жыл бұрын

@@howardmanley3388 I agree 100% I just don't understand : " he was in contact " ??

@sky-et6md

4 жыл бұрын

@@tommylucy4738 agree 100%

In my humble opinion, what's happening here is a fencing match, which Jerry started and Johnny finished. Jerry knew better than to walk onto Johnny's set (and in front of a couple of old-timer heavyweights to boot) and lead with his asshole, but it seems he just couldn't help himself. Started in on Johnny with the ball-breaking on his first line. Johnny let Jerry set himself up and then knocked him down like he was a wet-behind-the-ears amateur. Touche'. "Mess with the bull, get the horns.." is an old expression that comes to mind.

@AmericasChoice

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Lewis was asking for it.

@chrissytina6379

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry is annoying I find him obnoxious, irritating and his rhetoric is much like loud clinging symbals. Johnny was telling the truth even if people laughed. Just my little opinion

@johngerson7335

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrissytina6379 l think that your opinion's pretty spot on..

@chrissytina6379

2 жыл бұрын

@@johngerson7335 ☺️thx

Jack Benny did not like JL. Benny had class.

Funny stuff. Thanks for sharing it.

I always stayed up to see Johnny's show every night it was a must.

Carson meant it as an insult, he wasn't being funny. Jerry was not well-liked as a person, ok. And if this hot mess of an episode was so good, then why did Carson opt for a moderated "clip" show each anniversary thereafter?

George had a funny joke handing the cigar to Benny and he killed the laugh with his week break it in half joke!

This wasn't a rib. Johnny didn't suffer fools gladly and there was no bigger fool in Hollywood than Lewis.

@julianhermanubis6800

10 ай бұрын

I agree. And how dare that jerk Lewis sully the stage with his presence when the great Jack Benny was already there? That's like bringing on a chimp to perform after Itzhak Perlman.

Tension is thick in that room... A fight is about to break out... And the rest of the guys are trying to lighten it up but they can't.

@chuckfan1

7 жыл бұрын

Uhh no... No tension.. Lewis comes out and just is giving a little crap... And everyone rolls with it. There are some serious veteran show biz heavyweights there. This is nothing to them. They are just having some playful banter. Geez people, pay attention

@jondunmore4268

7 жыл бұрын

No Butcher, there's no tension. You're reading it all wrong. This was the state of comedy in those days; it ran on insults and disses when a bunch of comedians/entertainers got in the room.

@hayesman76

6 жыл бұрын

Jon Dunmore I disagree, there WAS some tension. Look how Jerry's face radically changed after Johnny's all-too-true remark about no one liking Lewis.

@bunnyhop3211

6 жыл бұрын

Jerry and Johnny were actually friends.

Johnny (joking to Jerry): “Ever get the feeling that nobody may like you?” Jerry: “There’s great truth in humor”. A lot more going on there than we knew.

@gmoney8585

2 жыл бұрын

Johnny said "he's hurt"

@TheLobocantaore

Жыл бұрын

@@gmoney8585 Nope ! just speaking truth , Jerry is not even funny !! he is just a jerk

Not that he wasn't a star of high magnitude, but Lewis was out of his league here, and he knew it.

See, there IS tension here. Joey Bishop is genuinely annoyed by Jack Benny. I believe Jerry Lewis' ribbing of Carson is good natured, but Carson, who'd maybe imbibed a bit that night takes it personally. Johnny's "no one likes you" DOES sting, because there was actual truth to it. Lewis was generally not well liked, except by Sammy. There is definitely tension in that studio.

Their humor had an edge to it, yet was clean.

Please post the rest of the tenth anniversary special. It was in the words of "Johnny" "GOOD STUFF!"

i wonder what they all said during the break haha

My opinion is this is a cut throat business. And these are the best.

You said it , they act like angels but people have always the human animal

No dissing to see here. Just a bunch of fantastic comedians trying to one-up each other.

These were the top comedic geniuses of all time and they worked well together here without practicing

At 70 yrs old I am a child of the 50's, I grew up watching these guys, and, more Actors, Singers, and, Comedians of that era. I must say that the TV, and, Movie Theaters are very LONELY places now, it's all about the money these days, hard working Celebrities are now gone, replaced by tattooed Women, Wokester, and, spoiled brats!!

Is that Carol Wayne bringing Jerry out? Those were the days. Incidentally, I may be mistaken, but I think that film Johnny is asking about was "The Day The Clown Cried." Never did get released, has rarely been seen (it apparently was finished) and it is interesting that Johnny asked about that, because it is the stuff of Hollywood legend.

@bracha2u786

8 жыл бұрын

+James good eye. you spotted carol wayne. i did not realize she died so young in a drowning accident. she was only 42.

@fenwaypark1725

5 жыл бұрын

bracha udelsohn I’ve heard from a good source she floated for 17 hours before she went under.They don’t make them like that anymore.

RIP he helped a lot of people.

I love seeing the Egos on all these guys

Wow Johnny Carson pulled rank on him once he crossed his legs. “Prickly Heat”

Johnny's chair looks like it's hovering.

There was a tension through that whole clip. No doubt!!

Odd that George is sitting by himself, while four people have to share the other couch.

This was 1972 and yet, George Burns was already 116 years old.

@rexxgarvin5313

3 жыл бұрын

Right! Atleast 120 years old.....

@lindasloat2794

2 жыл бұрын

No he wasn't. Jerry was the BEST. RIP 💙💜💚💜💙

@johnbrennan4449

Жыл бұрын

Burns was actually 76.

you all take that a bit too sierous... It's all just a joke lol that's how Jerry is he doesn't mean what he sais and it's all just a act when he is joking. love Jerry 💞

@hayesman76

6 жыл бұрын

Anja Ullmann Even Jerry himself acknowledged there was some truth in Carson's "joke".

@bloodtimemaximusfullthrott226

5 жыл бұрын

Anja Ullmann Jerry was an asshole...

@destroygaryfunky7053

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah,....Jerry was so "loveable" he wrote his own kids out of his will.

@exerciserelax8719

5 жыл бұрын

From many clips I've seen of him, Jerry seemed to have a fragile ego. He could dish it out but sometimes he couldn't take it himself. He was a wonderful talent when he was performing but I often find his interviews and other appearances uncomfortable to watch.

This was the day when stars were stars. Todays stars are a bunch of egomanics.

Joey is extremely serious. He doesn't relax at all.

This was tough. I got to see new (to me) footage of one of my favorite comedians of all time, Jack Benny, but I had to sit through footage of one of my least favorite comedians, Jerry Lewis. The film old Jer was "filming in Sweden" was the notorious mostly unseen disaster, "The Day the Clown Cried."

Amazing to remember, but non-smokers often just had to cop second hand smoke back then. Most folk smoked, and so in social situations they had the power.

Footnote: the film he had just finished still hasn’t been released and likely never will be. It was the infamous The Day the Clown Cried

@VisionaryCompanion

2 жыл бұрын

"...a marvelous film," he says.

This was a special set built specifically for this all-star anniversary show. Johnny admitted the set and the format were both big mistakes. After this, all Tonight Show anniversary shows were done on the regular Tonight Show set with no guests, just Johnny and Ed with clips of the best moments from the past year. That became so popular that NBC moved the anniversary show into prime time in the late 70's.

@frankj.semplemba7252

2 жыл бұрын

That's because Jerry Lewis was never that talented. He couldn't sing or dance very well; He didn't write jokes, so comedians didn't care for him; he wasn't a good actor, so other actors didn't care for him. Dig a little and you just may find he was a bully toward women and his own kids hated him.

@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen

Жыл бұрын

@@frankj.semplemba7252 I don't know what he was like as a person, but he had a unique talent, and he did some amazing stuff--including some damn fine acting and dancing.

@frankj.semplemba7252

Жыл бұрын

@@KZreadallowedmynametobestolen Yep, his acting was right up there with The Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers

JERRY SEEMED BITTER IN HIS LATER YEARS.

I love the casual smoking lol

rip ed machon,jerry lewis, joey bishop, Johnny Carson, Jack Benny, George burns

There was nothing WRONG nor any dissing/ill will AT ALL, just THESE GUY'S being...THESE GUY'S, thank's a lot for posting!!!!!!!!!

And this was very tame. Look up Jerry Lewis and Richard Pryor. I dont remember which show they were on, but it when they start a water fight. Damn good.

had this bit on an lp of carsons best...before vcrs

Bohemian grove frequenting, D.O.Bs the lot of them - but that veneer of panache is still alluring.

I think Jerry Lewis was a second class comic who happened to hit _BIG_ with Dean Martin at the right time; the development of that new fangled television, almost anyone who got tv show became a superstars. That's mainly because people would have watched a flag blow in the breeze for an hour on that new contraption; but because he got so big so quickly everyone treated him like he was funnier than he was. There were several Big Stars made at that time who hardly funny. Does anyone actually laugh at Milton Berle? Jerry was in the same boat. Every one treated him like he was the comic genius of geniuses but most of his _comedy _ does not age well. I almost gagged when I watched sycophantic James Lipton's interview on the Actors Studio, he was bending over soooo hard to kiss his ass and stroke his ego so badly; Lipton tried to make every scene Jerry ever made on film sound like it was pure comic genius Gold, he went on about how his stairway scene in Cinderfella was soo marvelous; Jerry stated braggingly, "I didn't choreograph it, and that was the first take." To be quite honest, he didn't do anything other than badly keep time to the music playing as he did ridicules steps down a stairwell. My six year old nephew could have done as well unchoreographed, on a first take. He was not a pleasant person to watch in an interview, often snarky and rude to those around him., and the way he treated members of his own family was an _infamy._ I rarely even chuckle at him, most of his so called _comedy_ is just _how can I do the stupidest thing possible just to be stupid,_ there is no _honesty_ in his comedy, especially after Dean broke off. Lucy Ball was better, much funnier, because there was always a logical (albeit skewed logic) honesty to the gags Lewis lacked. As far as I can tell, in my most humble opinion, he only made one truly _Great Comedy Film,_ actually worthy of being considered genius, _The Absentminded Professor._ He played himself in both personalities, his clown persona was _The Professor,_ his real personality was _Buddy Love._ Only Buddy Love was a toned down version of his actual self. He was a much bigger asshole in the RW.

@erichaynes7502

5 жыл бұрын

I think most of Jerry was false bravado and he carried a lot of pain from his childhood..his showbiz parents weren't around and Jerry tried so hard to please them. He did a lot of charitable things for a lot of people, not just muscular dystrophy. Jerry once admitted in a USA Today article(05?) that he once had been an overbearing egomaniac. He didn't really have a lot of money after declaring bankruptcy in the 70's, so he was humiliated that he always had to work for peanuts the rest of his life. He even had to move from L.A. to Vegas in the early 80's because his Hollywood career was over and from then on it was mostly Vegas shows and guest spots on TV shows, etc. I understand his false bravado, especially since Jerry understood more than anyone how you only rent fame and not own it. He gave horrible interviews and was probably the most self unaware celebrity in history..he always chewed gum and his slave like wife would have to hold out her hand to catch his gum, that's how he treated both of his wives. He was a control freak and a task master..In the end I'll say what really cracks me up about Jerry's dysfunction is that he'd corner somebody on his staff and try to berate them with a serious expression on his face, they could never get over the fact that he looked so silly with that mock look of anger on his face..he was such a facade.

@lindashelley3635

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Haynes I agree with your assessment of his childhood, and the fact that he seemed to have been dumped on various relatives while his parents were on the road. He admitted to having been very lonely as a boy and you have to feel sorry for someone whose parents were too busy working to even attend his Bar Mitzvah (which I understand is an important ceremony in a Jewish boys life, when he ‘becomes a man’). And Jerry himself always said that’s why he came to love Dean as a substitute father/big brother figure in his life. Two phrases always come to my mind when I think of Jerry’s childhood; Philip Larkin’s poem ‘They f***k you up, your Mum and Dad, they may not mean to but they do.’ And the Jesuit expression ‘Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man’. Add to that the fact that he became a millionaire almost overnight when he was still only a teenager, which was bound to go to anybody’s head, as it did to many teenage pop groups of a later generation. Dean was 10 years older and arguably somewhat more worldly wise, and certainly had a better relationship with his parents, and a more traditional family background. It’s not hard to imagine the double hurt and betrayal (in his eyes) that Jerry must have felt when Dean wanted out of the partnership and ‘abandoned’ him the same way he felt his father had. Perhaps it’s not really all that surprising that Jerry became so bitter in later life. It’s just a shame that some of Dean’s easygoing personality didn’t rub off on Jerry in the 10 years they were together. If they hadn’t been so ‘chalk and cheese’ they might at least have been able to remain friends after the act broke up.

@henrygingold6549

2 жыл бұрын

The guy was a putz

@martinmahern7268

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you about The Absentminded Professor. He was also good, playing basically himself, in The King of Comedy. Generally just a miserable human being, from all I've learned, that couldn't even scrape up some love for his own flesh & blood.

@lowbridge7070

2 жыл бұрын

I gotta agree that Jerry was a second hand comic who happened to hit it big with Dean at the very right time. The way Jerry himself described his comedy acts he performed (lip synching to a record album while making funny faces) before he teamed up with Dean sounds absolutely like a second rate, tired old bit, even for the 1940s. If he hadn't met and teamed up with Dean, I doubt his comedy act would have brought him anywhere far. Or anywhere, period.

Jerry was a busboy at the Browns Hotel in New York Catskill Mountains before he met Dean.

Benny, blowing his cigar smoke in Bishop's face and annoying him is gold. I read somewhere that Carson really despised Jerry. Now with all the stories coming out about him (including #metoo type stuff) its pretty clear what people were thinking but not saying about him to his face.

Jerry was egging on the presenter though first, so he did deserve a comeback, but the comeback was nasty, Jerrys joking was flippant and silly. Saying nobody likes you hurts, and I did see the hurt on his face. Yes Jerry could be abrasive and unpleasant, like Joey Bishop towards writing staff, but he was a bloody great surreal and inventive comedian, his films are masterpieces of auteur psychology and inventiveness. He has his Buddy hair here from The Nutty Professor, oddly enough. Joeys reaction was wonderful really, very thoughtful and supportive, I like Joey a lot, I think he's quietly inventive and a funny, loyal guy.

@rexxgarvin5313

3 жыл бұрын

Jerry was HURT! Tears of a clown......

@johnmanning5193

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry had that Buddy hair up until he was about 80. It feels like Joey stepped up for him prematurely with the $10 Million stuff. But all those gentlemen paid their dues. In the end, Jerry Lewis was quite open about his respect for the comedians from that era.

@baconmaster1023

2 жыл бұрын

Lemme guess... you're French?

Telegrams were the "emails" of 1972.

I think there was a lot of tension on the set that night; obviously some animosity, and maybe some old scores to settle between those veteran performers.

Wow! Just finished a film in Sweden. Jerry must have been talking about "The Day the Clown Cried." Never to see the light of day.

So many comedians, such LITTLE time for niceties. The only ones who won here are Ed and George Burns!

Jerry and Dean were great together!

@amisam8176

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry would have been nothing without Dean.

These are The Kings of Comedy .

You gotta Love Jerry!!

@elvicare35

4 жыл бұрын

I Do...that's probably the only time that I'll ever get to say that!!!!! Lol

I miss those day's

A "must see"? Not only didn't they dis Jerry that much, but even they seemed bored out of their minds.

Rest dans Peace Liliane de Toulon Fr Born December 21 le 1939 Departed September 11 le 2021

This was great and awkward at the same time! With Jerry's Humor, he has to be The ''One''. When their are other Masters in the Industry who are not impressed with Jerry, he has to work Hard! Jack Benny and George Burns are Vaudeville Vets! They remember Jerry as a Kid. Jerry knew his Levels. Jerry is not Nice. And lived in the House of ''Drama'' . That's why his ''Comedy'' was over the top but accurate at the same time......

@DonaldGerbino

2 жыл бұрын

Jerry's humor is for little 3 year Olds, it had as much sophistication as whoopie cushion and stunk about as bad as a real fart