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

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

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

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.

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

@CodeineSkeeter

5 күн бұрын

Do your research

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

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.

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

6 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.

"Maybe nobody likes you." PWNED.

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

Жыл бұрын

He just come across unlikeable

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

@CodeineSkeeter

5 күн бұрын

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

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

All puffing away...old school

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

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.

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@kramsdrawde8159

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Johnny Carson was funnier than any of them.

@jamesm.3967

11 ай бұрын

Wrong. Jack Benny was the king.

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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@daveinindy

6 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

6 жыл бұрын

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

@daveinindy

6 жыл бұрын

pieguy3 - if only ... still miss John Candy

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

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

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

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

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✳✳✳!

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

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.

He broke the cigar as part of the gag.

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%

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

Жыл бұрын

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

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!

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

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

6 жыл бұрын

koko, thank goodness.

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

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

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

9 ай бұрын

No one could stand JL

@kellycaviness4850

5 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.

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

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

6 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

6 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.

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

@julianhermanubis6800

8 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.

Terrific! Thanks for posting

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!!!!

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

i wonder what they all said during the break haha

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

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

Жыл бұрын

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

@chrissytina6379

Жыл бұрын

@@johngerson7335 ☺️thx

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.

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

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

Johnny's chair looks like it's hovering.

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

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!!

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

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.

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

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

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."

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

Funny stuff. Thanks for sharing it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

@yogertlvr Mr Yogert, do you have the rest of this 90-minnit program on an LP? would you like to trade a copy for a Tonite video taped 10/3/75?

I love the casual smoking lol

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

Жыл бұрын

Lemme guess... you're French?

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.

JERRY SEEMED BITTER IN HIS LATER YEARS.

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

I don't think Johnny was being serious and neither was Jerry's response

@patricioarriagada9069

7 жыл бұрын

NotAboutMe79 n

@chocolatcats

6 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU

@VisionaryCompanion

2 жыл бұрын

Whether he was being serious or not, he was right. Lewis was not well-liked, and many of his peers positively loathed him, for good reason.

Telegrams were the "emails" of 1972.

RIP he helped a lot of people.

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.

I love seeing the Egos on all these guys

Jack Benny did not like JL. Benny had class.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Schtick. Just Big 'Ol Schtick

I agree with you!! Your right! People today don't laugh like they use to. There is nobody funny like Jerry Lewis anymore!!

Jerry was, in the words of his son, "evil and mean," and I just saw a video which seems to bear this out: a Jerry who appears to be in his 80s treating a reporter with rudeness that is truly disgusting. Interesting to see that he seems to have been the same man decades earlier and that Johnny knew who Jerry really was.

the tension is palpable

@chuckfan1

6 жыл бұрын

No tension here at all. Everyone is reading waaay too much into it. They are just sitting around busting balls. And not even high level ball busting. Johnny was the master at letting the conversation develop, then going with it. Even if he had other questions etc. Here, Lewis started, playfully, giving crap, Everyone joined in, and Johnny rolled with it. It's all actually pretty low key. nowadays everyone is used to that spastic Fallon and his fake laugh and all those boring stupid games he plays. People , this is nothing, but some serious show biz vets hanging out. I imagine this is exactly what it would be like if they were at one of their homes playing poker. This is how the conversation would go..

@susansimpson2181

6 жыл бұрын

chuckffan, I loved Johnny.....one of a kind.

Let that hair down and let the truth set you free.

Two comic genius's and Jerry Lewis. Johnny Carson came to Britain and no one knew who he was. This annoyed him so much he paid a TV channel to run his show. Right there was enough reason for Brits to dislike him. When the show aired it was crap of course. No one could stomach Ed constantly kissing his arse. Thankfully it didn't run for long.

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

What did Johnny mean when he said, were gonna have the couches re-uphosltered , did he mean his guests were all incontinent and damaged the upholstery? Probly an old fryers club reference, the fryers were known for having very old members

Does anyone know why Jack broke George's cigar?

According to Don Rickles, Jack Benny, who was "the sweetest guy in the world," hated only one person, and that person was Jerry Lewis.

The best movie Lewis ever made was "King of the Night" where he played a late night talk show host that Robert Dinero (sp?) idolizes and wants to replace. The one scene where he walks down the street, acknowledging "the little people" (cab drivers, etc.) and won't speak to the lady's son on the pay phone' The self conceit that he displays in that scene was all natural.

@hayesman76

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Newton And then the very Jewish-sounding lady yells at Jerry, "You should get cancer! I hope you get cancer!" Great scene illustrating how "fans" of celebrities can turn predators in an instant. Jerry's name in "The King of Comedy" (now considered a "cult film") was "Jerry Langford".