Did Rickles say anything funny? Ya coulda fooled me.
What connected Milton Berle, Sid Caeser, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles and a host of Jackies was that they were all originally Borscht Belt comedians who had to impress their audience with how hard they were working to get a laugh. The reward was laughing at how hard they were working, what a panic, what a cold sweat they were in to make you laugh. You didn't laugh at the jokes, the jokes were pretty lame, you laughed at the effort. This has had an unfortunate effect on American humor: there is none.
Except for Rock-a-Bye Baby and Cinderfella, Lewis's best movies were directed by Frank Tashlin; Hollywood or Bust, The Geisha Boy, It's Only Money and Who's Minding the Store? Tashlin started as an animator at Looney Toons and was a master of sight gags.
What ruins most of Lewis's own directed movies is the pathos he throws in most of them. I hate Chaplin movies for the same reason. Stick to comedy boys, I got my own problems.
Jerry got the boot like Evi said, reportedly for the reasons stated by ampersand. And undoubtedly also because he was an asshole. He did the Telethon during his Jabba the Hutt period.
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Rickles is awesome. Jerry just missed the eclipse...
Just missed the Labor Day telethon.
Did Rickles say anything funny? Ya coulda fooled me.
What connected Milton Berle, Sid Caeser, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles and a host of Jackies was that they were all originally Borscht Belt comedians who had to impress their audience with how hard they were working to get a laugh. The reward was laughing at how hard they were working, what a panic, what a cold sweat they were in to make you laugh. You didn't laugh at the jokes, the jokes were pretty lame, you laughed at the effort. This has had an unfortunate effect on American humor: there is none.
So is he back with Dino?
"ICE!"
That, my friends, was a funny line.
Nick, Jerry got the boot from the telephon.
Ricpic, Rickles does crack me up.
Jerry was very ill for a long time. For a while, he was on steroids and looked like Jabba the Hutt.
That's why he didn't do the telethon.
Except for Rock-a-Bye Baby and Cinderfella, Lewis's best movies were directed by Frank Tashlin; Hollywood or Bust, The Geisha Boy, It's Only Money and Who's Minding the Store?
Tashlin started as an animator at Looney Toons and was a master of sight gags.
What ruins most of Lewis's own directed movies is the pathos he throws in most of them. I hate Chaplin movies for the same reason.
Stick to comedy boys, I got my own problems.
I thought they ran Jerry off the telethons because of his wrong think on women and the gheys.
He was off for a long time. Maybe 10 years ago, he did them for a couple of years.
I don't think you could do the telethons without him.
YMMV
Jerry got the boot like Evi said, reportedly for the reasons stated by ampersand. And undoubtedly also because he was an asshole. He did the Telethon during his Jabba the Hutt period.
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