Kevin Hart taking over for the late Jerry Lewis as host of The MDA Telethon
It’s not Labor Day, it’s not all weekend long, and it’s no longer fronted by the...
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Tag: Jerry Lewis
R.I.P. Jerry Lewis (1926-2017)
That the French would love Jerry Lewis should surprise no one who saw him perform at his peak from...
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Humor in Hindsight: 1983’s The King of Comedy
Here’s the lede from my latest Humor In Hindsight column for Decider.com, reflecting on...
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Someone cobbled together a half-hour of footage from film Jerry Lewis never wanted you to see, “The Day the Clown Cried”
People really want to see that Holocaust clown movie that Jerry Lewis deemed so unsalvageable, he...
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New BBC documentary examines infamous unreleased Jerry Lewis movie: “The Story of ‘The Day The Clown Cried'”
Just as new words surfaced from Jerry Lewis reasserting his claim that nobody will ever see his...
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Jerry Lewis claims “The Day The Clown Cried” will remain unseen, offers fresh opinions on Fallon, Colbert and Fey
People are talking about a new Jerry Lewis interview today, but they’ve completely missed...
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The Friars Club celebrated in PBS “Treasures of New York”
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian...
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Dane Cook on making a new comedy BFF in Jerry Lewis and advice in a post-Troublemaker career
Dane Cook has a new manager now but a very old iconic mentor in his comedy life, although Cook has...
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart explains comedy, freedom of expression to France following Charlie Hebdo, Dieudonne
French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, whose comedy frequently takes a dramatically...
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Friars Club to Roast Terry Bradshaw for ESPN2 during Super Bowl week, January 2015
The Friars Club announced today that it’ll roast Terry Bradshaw for its first sports-themed...
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Friars Club renames its clubhouse building the Jerry Lewis Monastery
The historic Friars Club building, a five-story house constructed in 1909 in midtown Manhattan...
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Joan Rivers on her stand-up comedy contemporaries, then and now
Joan Rivers has made several headlines already this month while promoting her new book,...
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