Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Correction: Jerry Lewis is Hosting MDA Telethon Tonight
AP | 9-3-06 | my favorite headache

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.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: jerrylewis; laborday; mda; telethon
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-74 last
To: MarineMom613
My wife often kids me that I believe everything I see on the internet. I told her Jerry wouldn't be on. She said, "Where'd you see that? The Internet?" I say, "Yeah, but it's gotta be true."

Now I look like a schmuck.

61 posted on 09/03/2006 6:15:42 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 58 | View Replies]

To: My Favorite Headache

I love Jerry Lewis and he is not at all PC. I would love for him to annouce Hillary as a "big mouthed broad".


62 posted on 09/03/2006 6:18:48 PM PDT by Phibes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hawkeye's Girl; Admin Moderator

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.


63 posted on 09/03/2006 6:19:31 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (the war on poverty should include health club memberships for the morbidly poor)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

Me too!!! LOL


64 posted on 09/03/2006 6:21:24 PM PDT by MarineMom613
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: MarineMom613

Either the story of this thread is a lie or the MDA hired Reuters to photoshop this year's telethon.

http://www.cafenetamerica.com


65 posted on 09/03/2006 6:25:48 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: Screamname
Please, Celine Dion has to be one of the most annoying human beings I have ever seen in my life. If she were any more plastic, any more full of it, she`d be John Kerry. She`s the French version of Barbara Striesand, and when you add France plus Barbara Striesand you get hell on earth.

You've said exactly nothing about her singing. Some savvy judge of talent you are.

66 posted on 09/03/2006 7:22:54 PM PDT by Invisible Gorilla
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: My Favorite Headache

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!


67 posted on 09/03/2006 7:23:41 PM PDT by Coop (No, there are no @!%$&#*! polls on Irey vs. Murtha!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Screamname

The French idolize Lewis in the same way a KKK member would enjoy Steppin Fetchit as his favorite actor.


68 posted on 09/03/2006 7:28:00 PM PDT by jimboster (Vitajex, whatcha doin' to me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: MaineVoter2002
I stand corrected on Jerry's line when he saw Dean

Gteat clip, BTW. !! Thnx

69 posted on 09/03/2006 7:31:38 PM PDT by llevrok (When you take my gin from my cold, dead hand....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: wideminded

"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."


70 posted on 09/03/2006 8:33:44 PM PDT by HHFi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: lowbridge

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.


71 posted on 09/03/2006 8:36:52 PM PDT by HHFi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: HHFi

Robert DeNiro was Great in King Of Comedy. Jerry actually played the straight man to DeNiro in that one.


72 posted on 09/03/2006 8:39:48 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (http://www.cafenetamerica.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: Coop

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.


73 posted on 09/04/2006 5:04:09 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: Hawkeye's Girl

Yes...they screwed up.


74 posted on 09/04/2006 5:04:35 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 57 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-74 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson