Posted on 06/10/2006 8:06:51 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
SOME of the sharpest barbs at yesterday's Friars Club roast of Jerry Lewis were aimed at the proud nation of France, cheese-eating surrender monkeys have honored the 80-year-old Hollywood comic with their Legion of Honor. "We owe the French a lot," Stevie Stone told the crowd of 1,500 at the New York Hilton. "They gave us the Statue of Liberty. We gave them Jerry Lewis. At least people still pay to see the Statue of Liberty."
Jeffrey Ross cracked, "The French don't even know they stink . . . It's a good thing you live in America, Jerry. If you lived in France, they would have already let you die in a heat wave."
Robert Klein said, "Yes, the French adore you. But the French gave up the Jews."
When the roasters weren't busy lampooning Lewis and/or France, they were trashing each other and the distinguished lineup on the dais.
Roastmaster Richard Belzer cracked that Robert De Niro - who starred with Lewis in Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy" (1983) - "gained 40 pounds for the roast" and "is very shy when he's not in character as one of the 3,000 Mafia guys he's played."
Belzer also said, "You know what's sad? It costs more to hire a Joe Piscopo impersonator than it does to hire Joe Piscopo."
Ross, who was the most vicious, said of Belzer: "You know you are ugly when your pockmarks are your best feature." He also made fun of the bandanna tied around Steven van Zandt's head: "You're dressed for a syrup bottle. What are you, Uncle Jemima?"
Making fun of the effects of the steroids Lewis took to treat pulmonary fibrosis, Ross said, "Why are you so bloated? You look like you drowned four days ago. What agency are you with - FEMA?"
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That picture is frightening. Please tell me that was a clever costume for Halloween.
Thats an awful big bong he's hitting..
Please tell me that was photoshopped.
Who?
Jeffrey Ross
Who?
Roastmaster Richard Belzer
Was funny for 10 minutes in the late 70s.
Sounds like the Friars Club has let their admission standards slip.
Boy, you can really see evil in that picture. sad. Way back when, his own boys had a lot of awful things to say about him.
Who?
see post #5 :-)
Jerry Lewis eyes Broadway musical of 'The Nutty Professor'
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Jerry Lewis, who played "The Nutty Professor" in 1963, has a new wacky scheme: staging the film as a Broadway musical.
The show will be produced by The Michael Andrew Company, with the first staging planned for January at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, where Lewis spends summers on a houseboat, he said.
Michael Andrew, a 41-year-old crooner and comedian who fronts The Atomic Big Band, is set to play the lead, the bucktoothed Julius Kelp who invents a potion that transforms him into the suave Buddy Love.
"I had an awful lot of inquiries about it for years and I never really bothered to pay much attention to it," Lewis, 80, told reporters Tuesday. ...
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I saw that picture on page 2 of an online newspaper. The schools should blow it up into a poster and show it to the kids with a caption, "This is what drugs do to you." That'd scare them straight.
ROFLMAO!!! !! :-)
Jeffrey Ross is hilarious. Completely rude, caustic, inappropriate and not-PC, but as funny as you can get. He was born to do these roasts.
I've always likes Klein's "every record ever made" bit.
The french love Jerry Lewis because he creates characters that perfectly fit with the way they wish to portray Americans. As bumbling fools. I liked him in "Artists and Models". But that's about it!
Nothing lamer and less funny than a roast.
A roast is a funeral before you die.
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