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Discuss: Jerry Lewis Is Now An Oscar-Winner
1:45AM STV | Forget the debate surrounding the viability of The Dark Knight and WALL-E. A far more enduring question that has shaken the Oscar cosmos for the better part of 50 years is close to resolution: More »
Jerry Lewis Drops Another Pink F-Bomb Down Under
3:17AM Seth | 82-year-old national treasure—in France, but whatever, France is a nation—Jerry Lewis has gone to Australia with his new stage extravaganza. It’s a throwback to the good old days of variety shows, incorporating “show tunes with a 24-piece band, excerpts from his scores of movies and television shows, and his trademark slapstick comedy.” (How a very realistic-looking prop glock fits into all this we do not know.) Asked at a press conference if he had any plans to retire or take a break, the comedian joked, “A break? No, why? You got something better to do?…Don’t you understand that when you croak, it’s for a ve-e-e-e-ry long time.” Amid hearty nods of approval, he was then asked what he thought of the sport cricket, which elicited a regrettable dropping of the dreaded pink F-bomb: More »
9:59AM Seth | And our Concealed Weapon Charge of the Day award goes to foreign comedy treasure Jerry Lewis, 82, who was found to be carrying an unregistered handgun at the Detroit airport today. Lewis’s manager Claudia Marghilano later explained it was a “a hollowed-out prop gun” that Lewis “sometimes twirls” before weepy dollar-store runs. [AP] More »
Short Ends: Laughing Through Tragedy
6:20AM Defamer Hollywood | You know how it goes: It’s late, it’s been a long shift on the overnight anchor desk, a weird little man rides across the bottom of the screen screaming about Uncle Hoe, and suddenly even a tragic celebrity suicide story seems hilarious. (They did, however, apologise for their poorly timed loopiness.) · We thought that Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t going to be as controversial a View co-host as Rosie O’Donnell, but she certainly surprised the ladies with her thoughts on the Michael Vick dogfighting mess on her first day on the couch. · Amazingly, Brad Pitt’s inclusion on People.com’s highly selective “Hollywood’s Secret Braniacs” list (requirements: getting at least within a couple of credits of a college degree) makes no mention of his love of architecture. · The Smoking Gun digs up the embattled Jerry Lewis’s tour rider, which seeks to guarantee that his live comedy appearances don’t get mixed up with MDA events. More »
Jerry Lewis Wants All ‘Illiterate Faggos’ To Know He Was Just Joking
5:45AM Defamer Hollywood | Having deemed Jerry Lewis’s recent off-colour remark about an “illiterate faggo” (he stopped himself before completing the final hard consonant) as being unacceptable televised-fundraising humour, self-appointed Voice of the Downtrodden Gay GLAAD demanded an apology from the comedian on their website. Lewis has since released the following statement: “I apologise to anyone who was offended. I obviously made a bad choice of words. Everyone who knows me understands that I hold no prejudices in this regard. In the family atmosphere of the telethon, I forget that not everyone knows me that well.” More »Jerry Lewis Raises $US64 Million, Ire Of Gays On Annual Telethon
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | It was hard to really find fault with Jerry Lewis after he recently announced to Entertainment Tonight’s cameras that Merv Griffin “deserved to die,” seeing as the sentiment was fundamentally well-intentioned, and probably originated in the defunct part of his brain devoted to censoring statements about how deceased friends had it coming to them. But Lewis was clearly pushing his luck with this impromptu comic riff from his annual Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, in which the Cinderfella star made light of the various social challenges being met by a particular camera operator’s son. More »
