Posted on 09/03/2006 12:14:18 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Saw this just breaking...Jerry Lewis will not host the annual MDA telethon for the first time ever due to a sudden illness...Ed McMahon will take his place as full time host this year.
Lewis has battled a number of illnesses over the last 12 years but always managed to host the 21.5 hour show...even on oxygen.
A taped opening filmed on August 31st on the Vegas strip with him stopping traffic with an orchestra at 2 am will still be shown but Lewis is too ill to do the show live.
Now I look like a schmuck.
I love Jerry Lewis and he is not at all PC. I would love for him to annouce Hillary as a "big mouthed broad".
Thanks -- I see him, too.
AM: Can you change the headline to something that says he seems to be OK?
No matter what you think of his movies, the MDA work he does is great.
Me too!!! LOL
Either the story of this thread is a lie or the MDA hired Reuters to photoshop this year's telethon.
http://www.cafenetamerica.com
You've said exactly nothing about her singing. Some savvy judge of talent you are.
Apparently Jerry Lewis didn't get the memo. :-) God bless him. He sounds winded, but he looks good compared to previous years. He's quite a trooper!
The French idolize Lewis in the same way a KKK member would enjoy Steppin Fetchit as his favorite actor.
Gteat clip, BTW. !! Thnx
"The Nutty Professor" is great, and "The Bellboy" and "Who's Minding the Store" also have some great silent movie-style gags. I was thinking more along the lines of "Which Way to the Front" up through "Hardly Working."
I really like the Colgate Comedy Hour stuff, although I do think their earliest appearances are better than the later ones. I think toward the end, some of the pressures and resentments were starting to show through onscreen. But the very earliest shows (the ones that one critic referred to as "Jerry Lewis in his 'Elvis at Sun Records' phase") are hilarious. Look for the bit Jerry does with the claw machine. Made my sides hurt.
Robert DeNiro was Great in King Of Comedy. Jerry actually played the straight man to DeNiro in that one.
Well looks like I am gonna have to pull the transcripts from Fox News Live yesterday from 1 pm til 3 when it was their #1 story.
Yes...they screwed up.
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