Posted on 09/07/2015 5:07:21 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo
As a person with muscular dystrophy, I’m relieved to know that this will be the first Labor Day weekend of my adult life without a muscular dystrophy telethon. The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced in May that for the first time in decades, it will not organize a telethon to raise money.
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And this'll probably send you into youtube Jerry Lewis madness for the next few hours ... I miss him
Maybe I am weird but I used to enjoy the telethon every year.
These type advocates push a lie.
It sort of marked the end of summer, I watched quite a few of them myself.
Recall seeing Dean Martin and Jerry re-unite on the telethon in ‘76 (?). A very touching moment in tv history.
I thought they discontinued it years ago. They’ve just been running a three hour variety show on Sunday nights the past few years.
MDA has helped me, and its research has revealed a lot of new things about a whole range of neuro-muscular diseases. MDA leadership lost its vision in the last few years.
sarc/
How did they miss treat him? I think he did a heckuva Lotta good millions of dollars of good
"Aw, crap .." [Sorry, I was just a kid.]
Jerry Lewis recognized decades before anyone else the coming copper crisis and put up copper collection centers in every convenience store around the country. It was genius. He said he was doing it to find a cure for crippled children. Instead, he stealthily owned the copper market.
I had to go watch Jerry’s solo jitterbug from “The Nutty Professor.” So silly and funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Vc3S0X5tA
I never thought he was funny at all
He was very very nasty about the south
You can have him
When we learned about the numbers of deaf people who want their own children to become deaf or refuse cochlear implants, many of us were outraged.
There was one young adult in the class who had become a paraplegic from a fall while rock climbing. He couldn't believe there were people who were handicapped but refused to be helped or cured. Some crippled/handicapped people are unfortunately a little nutty.
When I was young and Martin and Lewis hit the scene, I was racked with laughter at some of the antics.
Can’t remember anything specific however - - - but that’s my memory.
His act seemed to be largely based on behaving as if he was retarded. I wasn’t impressed or amused.
To each his own
I like RICKLES
My parents did not
It’s not just ideology driven though my dislike of Lewis
Bill Hicks was from the Deep South like me....Mississippi and Alabama
I found him vulgar but hilarious but he was a rare bonafide southern leftist
Martin Short unfunny to me but beloved by many
To each his own
The pre vulgarity comics were funnier cause they had to be
Just watching Henny Youngman and Jack Benny improvise one another or bounce it off Carson
Amazing
U
I saw a younger comic recently.....I’m trying to remember but can’t right now...on HBO
Artie Lange coulda been a contender but he self destructed
As my wife would say, “I know how that twit votes”.
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