He was before my time so I only got bits and pieces of what he was about. My mother thought he was funny as she used to actually go to the movies he starred in when they came out in the theaters. Pretty much all I remember from him firsthand was his Labor Day telethons when growing up back in the 1970s. All those women in the background waiting for their rotary phones to ring. Out on the YouTube, there are lots of clips from his standup routines back in the 1950s, when he was in his prime.
He was an anti southern bigot
And his schtick I found tedious
Course freepers find me tedious too
I think of Gleason and Rickles as two northern comics too
Both funny as sin
Lewis not
He’s unpopular in Dixie for another reason too