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RIP Jerry Lewis (1 Viewer)
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Anthony Borbely
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SHIZNITTTT
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Lutherman2112
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My Dad introduced me to Jerry Lewis. We just had cable installed when the flu ran rampant through the family. My father and I were the last two to get it. I stayed home from school and he stayed home from work. One of the cable channels was WTBS. One day they aired 3 Jerry Lewis movies. As a kid, I found it silly and a few times my Dad and I were coughing so hard from the flu and humor. The next day was John Wayne movies. I will never forget those two days.
gump
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OrtonToOlsen
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Up until about 30 minutes ago, CNN's headline stated that Jerry Lee Lewis had died.
Eephus
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His prime was so long ago that it's easy to forget what a talented guy he was. He practiced a form of physical comedy that was a throwback fifty years ago but that gives his best work a timeless quality. A lot of his movies are dreck but every one I've seen has at least one or two bits that are laugh out loud funny and that's really all I ask from a comedy.
HellToupee
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El Floppo
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Up until your post and subsequent googling I had no idea the Killer was still alive
OrtonToOlsen
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PIK95
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Courtjester
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Growing up the MDA telethon was synonymous with the end of summer. I remember my parents letting me and my siblings stay up all night to watch Jerry. We would get all prepared with ice tea and snacks and none of us would ever make it.
Getting your change all together to donate was something we did every year.
Just such a big loss on so many levels.
Getting your change all together to donate was something we did every year.
Just such a big loss on so many levels.
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James Bond
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Talented guy. I don't think I remember anyone who morphed so much from his goofy, early days persona to his overweight, chain smoking latter days persona. Still, he did a lot of good with his charitable causes. RIP
El Floppo
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I'm not getting these at all.
an RIP thread the day he dies is the time to have fun with the guy's name?
El Floppo
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OrtonToOlsen
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squistion
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He gave up smoking in 1982 after he had heart bypass surgery.
The period that he gained weight (which he eventually lost) was due to the medication he was taking, not lifestyle. He had been in chronic pain from the years of doing pratfalls and the pain became unbearable, so he was given steroid treatments, a side effect is rapid weight gain, which caused to balloon out to 242 pounds.
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Binky The Doormat
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Boston
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When I was a kid I remember this guy would do a Jerry Lewis imitation at the beach...he would run down to the water and dive into the sand before he got to the water and pretend to begin swimming...man, that was funny stuff back then...
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Hov34
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Encyclopedia Brown
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I've read that his performance was not too far from his real life persona. Great scene when De Niro makes him read the cue cards and one of them is upside down.
Jerry Lewis was also one of the more bizarre talk show guests. The one I remember is right after Lucille Ball died, he went on Larry King and just kept repeating, "this funny broad......this funny broad".
msudaisy26
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Chemical X
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who played the better racist stereotype, mickey rooney or jerry lewis.
I mean, slip on buck teeth and a wig and you too can be a china man. it didn't work for krusty though.
I mean, slip on buck teeth and a wig and you too can be a china man. it didn't work for krusty though.
Leroy Hoard
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