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Title: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: trippymonkey on August 20, 2017, 09:36:17 PM
Not another one ?!?!!?!?

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-comedian-jerry-lewis-dies-las-vegas-aged-181100742.html
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on August 22, 2017, 07:45:45 AM
Quote from: trippymonkey on August 20, 2017, 09:36:17 PM
Not another one ?!?!!?!?

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/us-comedian-jerry-lewis-dies-las-vegas-aged-181100742.html
The original The Nutty Professor is a comic masterpiece.
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Steve H on August 22, 2017, 01:50:01 PM
I always thought he was deeply unfunny.
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Aruntraveller on August 22, 2017, 01:52:31 PM
Quote from: SteveH on August 22, 2017, 01:50:01 PM
I always thought he was deeply unfunny.

His style of comedy certainly seems to be out of fashion - I cannot remember the last time one of his films was shown on TV.

I tend to agree that it wasn't particularly funny and at times (to me at least) excruciatingly embarrassing. Norman Wisdom had much the same effect on me, too.
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Shaker on August 22, 2017, 02:25:49 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on August 22, 2017, 01:52:31 PM
His style of comedy certainly seems to be out of fashion - I cannot remember the last time one of his films was shown on TV.

I tend to agree that it wasn't particularly funny and at times (to me at least) excruciatingly embarrassing. Norman Wisdom had much the same effect on me, too.
I'm OK with a bit of Norman Wisdom - frankly I could watch The Early Bird until my eyeballs drop out of my head - but JL's style of comedy seemed to put gurning over any gift for comedy that I could ever see ... the same goes for Jim Carrey.
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Gordon on August 22, 2017, 08:08:00 PM
Quote from: SteveH on August 22, 2017, 01:50:01 PM
I always thought he was deeply unfunny.

Me too.
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Robbie on August 23, 2017, 01:24:21 AM
Jerry Lewis was like Marmite - love or hate. Can't say i ever saw much of his work, what i did was not my sorta thing.

Quote from: Shaker on August 22, 2017, 02:25:49 PM
I'm OK with a bit of Norman Wisdom - frankly I could watch The Early Bird until my eyeballs drop out of my head - but JL's style of comedy seemed to put gurning over any gift for comedy that I could ever see ... the same goes for Jim Carrey.
 
Just how I felt!

He was clever and inventive in ways other than his style of comedy. Iirc he invented something that is still used today in filming,a google search would probably show what it was*. There's always a bit more to a person than the bit we see.

*Video assisthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assist

(Must go sleep now, start work 10 thank goodness.)
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Steve H on August 23, 2017, 10:35:33 AM
I did find Norman Wisdom - since he's been mentioned - quite funny when he was trying vto be funny; what I hated was the syrupily sentimental interludes in his films, like that awful song "Don't laugh at me".
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Robbie on August 24, 2017, 03:21:38 PM
Your sig is worthy of a Jerry Lewis adult stand up routine steveH!
Title: Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
Post by: Steve H on August 25, 2017, 10:45:04 PM
Glad you think so - I think. I pinched it from a comment by someone on Facebook.