Did you folks realise Jerry Lewis had passed?

He supported Drumpf. Fuck that guy.

Didn’t know that, I second your notion. Guess you have to separate the art from the artist. He did make some pretty funny movies back in the day.

He wasn’t that funny when he was funny.

I agree with @zenvelo, he really wasn’t funny. I was, however, sorry to hear about Dick Gregory. Now him I found funny!

I had heard but I wasn’t a fan.

I heard it on the news, but I don’t know who he is.
I heard he gave massive amounts of money to charities. Kudos for that.

This folk new but I didn’t care for him and he died of old age.

Yeah. I saw it on FB right after the news broke.

I mostly didn’t care for him either. He was too much like Jim Carey. I remember him doing the MD telethons. He had a fancy sniffer of some kind. Every so often he’s sniff on it. I suspected it was a drug of some kind.

Yes, I heard too and also was never a fan. His comedy was too sloppy, stupid, slapstick for me but hey, he made it to 91, good for him.

Is he the telethon guy?

Edit: “knew”

Not really surprised at these answers, I had always heard he was a jerk in real life. But so were a lot of celebs back in the day. I read an article online last night, about what a jerk and ass hat Johnny Carson was. An interesting side note, Carson never liked Bob Hope. He said that Hope was never spontaneous, and would not appear on his show without pre scripted jokes. He told his crew that “If I ever end up like Hope, just shoot me”.
I was never a big fan of Lewis myself, just an excuse to round out my questions at 40. I like even numbers. ; )

@josie The Telethon guy, as well as a comic actor. Loved in France, somewhat meh… in the U.S. Got his start as part of the (Dean) Martin and Lewis comedy team, in movies and TV.

Our nephew had MD, and died at 14 years old in the 80s. He met Jerry once, and was treated very kindly, so thank you for that, Jerry.

If it’s true that you were a big Trump supporter, enjoy your time in Hell.

Are all of the flags in France at half-staff today ??

Somehow, I doubt it…..

I was never a fan.
His telethons made a lot of money for a good cause, but even with that I have heard he was abusive to the very people he was helping.
Fuck that asshole.

Not a fan.

I think how one feels about Jerry depends partly on one’s generation. I myself was a budding teenager when I first discovered Martin & Lewis and adored their early movies. They were a comedy phenomenon in the 50s, as big or bigger than any of today’s biggest acts.

However, by the time I was adult I had grown to dislike much of his work, thought it silly. Yet, I did feel some of the films he later directed and starred in had moments of near-brilliance, two of which were “The Bellboy” and The Errand Boy.”

I especially liked him in “King of Comedy” in which he essentially played himself, and I liked—if that’s the right word for it—the painful-to-watch “Max Rose” that ran last year when he was 90. Amazingly, he made two movies after that!

As a side note, in the 70s my then-wife, a PR rep, interviewed him in Dallas and told me he did something no one else had ever done in one of her interviews: He turned on a small tape recorder and recorded every word. Today of course that’s normal, but back then not so. (She thought he was an egotistical jerk, by the way.)

In the same vein, Jerry was supposedly the first director to have a monitor on his sets so he could watch and record the action and make decisions based on playback. Totally normal now but a real innovation back then.

It’s been in the news, so I noticed he had died.

As a kid I remember watching his films with Dean Martin, but I haven’t bothered to watch any of his work for many years. I’m ambivalent about him really.

He had a good inning. I read he did a lot of work for MD, although nobody knows why he chose to support people suffering with that illness. As to his politics, no idea.

Dean Martin once told his son, that “The best thing I ever did was teaming up with Jerry Lewis. The second best thing I ever did, was leaving Jerry Lewis”.

yes

@stanleybmanly, I know that quote and I fully believe Dino said and felt it.