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The historic Friars Club building, a five-story house constructed in 1909 in midtown Manhattan that became the clubhouse and “Friars Club Monastery” in 1957 with Abbot Joe E. Lewis, was renamed the “Jerry Lewis Monastery” in a special ceremony Monday night in honor of the club’s current Abbot and Lewis. …
Joan Rivers has made several headlines already this month while promoting her new book, “Diary of a Mad Diva.” In her latest interview, a sit-down with Ron Bennington for SiriusXM’s “Unmasked” series — which airs tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern on Raw Dog Comedy Hits channel 99 — Rivers talks about …
Jerry Lewis sat down this week with Maria Menounos at The Friars Club for a SiriusXM Town Hall that airs today, and wouldn’t you know it, Lewis still has a bone to pick with Joan Rivers after all of these years and decades? Or is a longstanding roast joke? Either …
The changing of the guard at the Friars Club is from old guard to older guard. Larry King, 80, is stepping up to replace 76-year-old Freddie Roman as Dean of the Friars Club, the New York City institution announced late Wednesday. King will sit next to 87-year-old Jerry Lewis, the Friars …
People who asked Jerry Lewis earlier this year if we’d ever get to see his infamous unreleased movie about a washed-up circus clown entertaining Jewish children in a Nazi concentration camp may have known then what we’re only knowing now: Parts of The Day The Clown Cried have been online …
Jerry Lewis is at the Cannes Film Festival, so reporters had the bright idea to ask him if he has discovered any funny women in the 15 years since he had declared publicly that there weren’t such a thing. Various reports, including the AP, noted that Lewis first jokingly offered …
Here’s something for your (TBT) Throwback Thursday files. Within the opening minute of Milton Berle’s Mad Mad Mad World of Comedy (made and aired in 1974-1975), we see Laurel & Hardy in their later years do a classic joke in public, followed immediately by Milton Berle doing the same joke on …
The Friars Club Roast of Jack Black brought down the grand ballroom Friday afternoon at the New York Hilton, as upward of 3,000 of New York Friars Club members, dignitaries, celebrities and friends gathered to pay tribute to the actor/musician through one-liner barbs. Bob Saget served as the Roastmaster on …
Is The Friars Club getting soft? Nah. Instead of doing a roast, the Friars has announced they’re going to be celebrating Jerry Lewis on his 86th birthday with a public party, tribute and screening at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. When Lewis turns 86 on March 16, …
If you’re old enough to remember a time before cable television, when your TV had about four stations on it, Jerry Lewis and “Jerry’s Kids” took over your Labor Day weekend for decades. But no more. The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced yesterday that it had severed ties with Jerry Lewis. …
