« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!  (Read 1412 times)

trippymonkey

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4550
Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« on: August 20, 2017, 09:36:17 PM »
Logged

Walt Zingmatilder

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 33827
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2017, 07:45:45 AM »
Logged

Steve H

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11080
  • God? She's black.
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2017, 01:50:01 PM »
I always thought he was deeply unfunny.
Logged
"That bloke over there, out of Ultravox, is really childish."
"Him? Midge Ure?"
"Yes, very."

Aruntraveller

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11627
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #3 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.
Logged
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them. - God is Love.

Shaker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 15639
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #4 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.
« Last Edit: August 22, 2017, 02:28:19 PM by Shaker »
Logged
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

Gordon

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 18633
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #5 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.
Logged

Robbie

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7512
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #6 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.)
« Last Edit: August 23, 2017, 01:57:41 AM by Robinson »
Logged
True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
          What oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exprest

Steve H

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11080
  • God? She's black.
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #7 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".
Logged
"That bloke over there, out of Ultravox, is really childish."
"Him? Midge Ure?"
"Yes, very."

Robbie

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7512
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2017, 03:21:38 PM »
Your sig is worthy of a Jerry Lewis adult stand up routine steveH!
Logged
True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
          What oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exprest

Steve H

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11080
  • God? She's black.
Re: Jerry Lewis Is Gone Now ?!!?!?!?!
« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2017, 10:45:04 PM »
Glad you think so - I think. I pinched it from a comment by someone on Facebook.
Logged
"That bloke over there, out of Ultravox, is really childish."
"Him? Midge Ure?"
"Yes, very."
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »