SOFT NEWS DINOSAUR ROAR! JERRY LEWIS BACK ON RECORD SAYING WOMEN AREN'T FUNNY

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Fifteen years ago when asked who his favorite female comics were, Lewis replied "I don't have any". He feels the same way now.

By JAKE COYLE
AP Entertainment Writer
CANNES, France (AP) - Ladies? Don't make him laugh.
Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: "I don't have any."

In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of would-be mothers as comedians.



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Lewis is a dying breed. I certainly laughed out loud @ Totie Fields, Roseanne, Bette Midler, Joan Rivers and others over the past five decades. There are and always have been overrated or lame comics, some of which ARE women. IMO Melissa McCarthy, Tina Fey and most of the female comediennes on SNL since the departure of the original divas [Radner, Curtin] are NOT funny.

In the article, Fey is quoted responding to Lewis's remark as follows "We don't f-ing care if you like it". This was published in Fey's 2011 autobiography [premature to my way of thinking as she's hardly a longstanding icon in the business]. Her success has not translated to the world of films, FWIW.

No doubt, Jerry Lewis is a dinosaur and the last of a dying breed in comedy and entertainment. Funny is funny - no matter the source. Of the nouveau avant garde crop of female comics, Sarah Silverman's talent eludes me while Amy Shumer's graphic material referring to herself as an unapologetic slut makes me LOL. Lisa Lampanelli is over the top and too bawdy for my taste.

Anyone want to side with Jerry? Anyone else want to boost your favorite funny lady or perhaps you've got an axe to grind with someone who doesn't measure up. Your turn!
 
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Mzkitty

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I give up.
I never liked him even when I was a little girl. I heard he's a miserable old POS anyway.

:blech:
 
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He always grated on me, like a perpetual rude, child.

He's entitled to his opinion on what makes good comedy. But it's just not nice to put down 1/2 the population out loud.
 
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Mebbe he was thinking of stand-up ONLY?

Here are a few Wonderful (movies n TV) ones IMO:

> Mae West

> Ginger Rogers

> Carol Burnett

> Lily Tomlin

just off the top of my memory bank.

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Stand-up comedy tends to be rude and nasty from what I have seen.

Bette Midler could do that (though I *do* enjoy her movies)
 
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I never wondered why Dean Martin dropped him, but I always wondered why Dean Martin thought he needed him.

I always thought Jerry Lewis was stupid not funny.
 
Dennis Olson

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But it's just not nice to put down 1/2 the population out loud.


As I have found out multiple times on the forum, resulting in verbal beat-downs without peer in the civilized world.



(Women suck :p)
 
Sportsman

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I think most of us are mis-interpreting his remarks. I read his original quotes some time ago, and he was actually complimenting females. In his opinion, it was denegrating the "ladies" for them to stoop so low as to present humor. He considers women to be "above that" and that keeps them from being "funny" to HIM. Listening to some of the modern potty-mouth female comics, they seem to be proving his point.

I can understand this attitude from someone of his generation that revered "ladies", and placed them on a pedistal as it was. You know, like some of us old southern gentlemen that STILL open the door for females we don't know, even after we're sometimes told by that female to "go f*** off, I can open my own damn door.".

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I could almost see some element of truth in his statement except, like many others, I have never been able to see him as funny. Bob Hope, Jack Benny ..... the list goes on and on including Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett. Jerry doesnt even make the list for me- just making faces and slapping your head doesnt take a lot of talent.
 
WildDaisy

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Out of today's lot of "comedians", I'd say he is right. But that goes for men too. It is rare to find one that can be funny, without resorting to vulgar things, foul mouths or being rude.

I never found Jerry Lewis very funny either. Dorky, maybe, but not funny. He might have made me smile, but not laugh. Lucy, now that's someone that made me laugh. Carol Burnett made me laugh.

But those days are gone now. All that is left is foul mouthed, rude men and women thinking they are funny, but they are just disgusting.

I used to like Jeff Dunham too, but he's starting to get bad too.
 
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I've not been a fan of Jerry Lewis since I was about 10 and hurtful comedy became un-funny to me. That said, he's entitled to his opinions. I'm one of those people who are offended by the unnecessary use of vulgarity. You can be rip-roaring funny without having to establish yourself at the lowest human level. So, maybe I can understand a little bit of where he's coming from. Anybody read the entire article? The below is from the article.

In her 2011 memoir, "Bossypants," Tina Fey alluded to Lewis' attitudes about female comedians: "Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' ... Do you have anything to say to that?'

"Yes," writes Fey. "We don't f------ care if you like it."
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Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/224060...-his-distaste-for-female-comics#ixzz2UE6XZuFD
 
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Jerry made me laugh till I was about 15, then I just couldn't get into his humor anymore. Now for clean comics I'm surprised that no one has brought up Bill Cosby. "Father can I have chocolate cake for breakfast too"
 
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mzkitty said:
I never liked him even when I was a little girl. I heard he's a miserable old POS anyway.

:blech:
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He's a long time family friend. He isn't a miserable old POS. He is a wonderful man who has lived a long life giving back to others. It would be nice if we any of us could be as generous with our time, energy, personal finances and professional careers just to give back.

As to the his take on women comics. Someone else said what Jerry has said in other words many times: 'He personally doesn't like bawdy women comics because it diminishes the qualities that make women beautiful to him.'

You can be funny without a foul mouth, but the women comics of today, much like Tina Fey, or Silverstein can't be funny without being foul. That is the times we live in today, and think what you may, Jerry is a wonderful man, who came up in a different time and has a different view of women.

He's always been wonderful and kind and everything that is loving to me, he does have a temper and I have seen it (though it was about thrity years ago ...and well deserved I might add......and I love him and have for many years now.
 
Dennis Olson

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Laugh In

The Smothers Brothers

The Red Skelton Show

The Carol Burnett Show

Johnny Carson


Some of the funniest shows in the history of television. All gone now, replaced with "reality show" filth.
 
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ainitfunny

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Vulgar women "comics" don't make for funny.
Carol Burnett surpassed most comics BOTH male and female.
Tim Conway DID "FUNNY STUPID GUY" MUCH MUCH FUNNIER THAN JERRY EVER DID.
Unless I laugh out loud it ain't so funny, and I NEVER laughed out loud at Jerry Lewis's work.
 
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Night Owl

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:screw::sb::hmm:
I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD!!!!!!

Anyone is funnier than him, my dead Aunt Johanna is funny than him. His picture should be next to the word Stupid. Need I say more, I think he wanted to be all 3 stooges and all the Marx Brothers combine. No voice, no talent, just a face and the right connections.
He didn't even make that many movies. Probably a womanizer too if he said that about women.The annual telethon made him famous
 
Laurane

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This woman, Jeannie Robertson is the funniest person I have ever seen doing comedy - it isn't comedy to her, it is real life. And she is also clean - couldn't say "poop" if her life depended on it. You really need to put down your drink and feet up and wrap your arms around your stomach because it will hurt from laughing so much.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1_W0LCHwK4 "Don't bungee jump nekkid".........
 
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RobinYyes said:
He's a long time family friend. He isn't a miserable old POS. He is a wonderful man who has lived a long life giving back to others. It would be nice if we any of us could be as generous with our time, energy, personal finances and professional careers just to give back.

As to the his take on women comics. Someone else said what Jerry has said in other words many times: 'He personally doesn't like bawdy women comics because it diminishes the qualities that make women beautiful to him.'

You can be funny without a foul mouth, but the women comics of today, much like Tina Fey, or Silverstein can't be funny without being foul. That is the times we live in today, and think what you may, Jerry is a wonderful man, who came up in a different time and has a different view of women.

He's always been wonderful and kind and everything that is loving to me, he does have a temper and I have seen it (though it was about thrity years ago ...and well deserved I might add......and I love him and have for many years now.
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Thank you.

I was amazed at some of the comments on the board.

IMO few have done as much good with their lives as he has.
 
Dennis Olson

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Agreed. I'd believe someone who knows him over "rumors" any day.


If you want to know a jerk, from what I've read, Carson was a jerk.
 
SquonkHunter

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Dennis Olson said:
Laugh In

The Smothers Brothers

The Red Skelton Show

The Carol Burnett Show

Johnny Carson


Some of the funniest shows in the history of television. All gone now, replaced with "reality show" filth.
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Agreed. Especially Red Skelton. He could get more laughs with a few seconds of pantomime than anyone today can get with a 30 minute stand-up routine.
Classic.:lol::lol::lol:
 
Dennis Olson

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Not to mention the pathos he could generate in a matter of moments. I remember the Christmas show he did with Freddie the Freeloader in a ramshackle old shack, trying to celebrate Christmas. 30+ years ago and I remember that bit clearly.
 
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Dennis Olson said:
Not to mention the pathos he could generate in a matter of moments. I remember the Christmas show he did with Freddie the Freeloader in a ramshackle old shack, trying to celebrate Christmas. 30+ years ago and I remember that bit clearly.
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Absolutely loved Freddie. Even sent in the Pet milk labels and got a Freddie the Freeloader Halloween mask when I was a kid. That was the best costume I ever had.
 
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SquonkHunter

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And even with all the "loose ends", this thread is still more interesting than any of the rubbish on TV these days. SIGH. Just another geezer lamenting the past. :ld:
 
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Hfcomms

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ainitfunny said:
Vulgar women "comics" don't make for funny.
Carol Burnett surpassed most comics BOTH male and female.
Tim Conway DID "FUNNY STUPID GUY" MUCH MUCH FUNNIER THAN JERRY EVER DID.
Unless I laugh out loud it ain't so funny, and I NEVER laughed out loud at Jerry Lewis's work.
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Agree with all of the above. However, when I think of the word 'comic' I think of a one person stand up routine and since Lewis is like that I imagine that is what he is thinking of as well. I don't consider Carol Burnett or Tim Conway as comics. They rarely if ever did a stand alone monologue. They are extremely funny actors that play off each other and are absolute riots when they get going. Folks like Bill Cosby and Tim Allen could be considered as comics as they have done both stand alone work as well as hilarious sitcoms. My funniest duo has to be Harvey Korman and Tim Conway when they got together on the Carol Burnett show.
 
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