TS: Jerry Lewis vs. Jerry Lee Lewis

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"la-la-la NICE LADY!' v. "goodness gracious, great balls of fire!"

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

or, if you prefer:

being considered a comic genius by the French for movies that yer countrymen think are really stupid, stuffing yer face till you bloat up to Orson Welles or Rush Limbaugh proportions, and hosting an annual fundraiser w/ celebrity has-beens

- versus -

marrying yer 14-year-old cousin and grabbing yer nuts on national TV (both done during the Fifties), setting yer piano on fire on stage to upstage that uppity Nee-gra Chuck Berry, and being related to an infamous Bible-thumping con-man whose libido is even bigger than yer own

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Jerry Lee Lewis, hands down. I know ILM is anti-authenticity, but when you've got a man as genuinly evil and conflicted as JLL (see Tosches' mindbendingly good Hellfire), it must be mentioned.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Jerry Lewis = invented modern comedy (self referential, gender confused). The onlyman to do his own double act as a solo comedian. On this rare occasion the French are right.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

John L. Lewis.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

(and don't forget JLL's brilliant turn as Iago in a musical version of Hamlet)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i base my entire politix and esthetix on the assumption that jl = jll1 = jll2, and u shd 2

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:46 (twenty-three years ago)

whose jll2?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:47 (twenty-three years ago)

cf post b4 yr last but one, Yanc3y

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

no the answer to my question is "not yours"

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

haha sorry i misread "whose" as "who's" and assumed u had not seen sterl's post, sorry

howevah, seeing as they're equal it doesn't signify

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No you were right before, I miswrote and then pulled a switch to make me seem infinitely clever and obviously it has worked perfectly.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

(perfectly = not at all)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Leader of the UMW for many years, founder of the CIO.

I once wrote sinkah a long email explaining among other things the jll1-2 theory but I haven't worked in Jerry Lewis yet. It certainly brightens the picture though.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I know who John L. Lewis is, Sterling, I just didn't realize that Mark was referring to him with "jll2."

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club is the most exciting album and the greatest live album ever made, so him.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 11 December 2002 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

please, Jerry -- no faygeleh "jokes" at the Oscars.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2008/12/the_problem_with_jerry.html

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 12 December 2008 18:13 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Three on a Couch, I conclude from my first viewing in 35 years, is post-good Jerry.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 15 November 2009 07:58 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

JL sounding a little more like JLL:

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212321208.shtml

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 September 2010 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-09/55943517.jpg

― buzza, Saturday, 4 September 2010 19:16 (fifteen years ago)

Neither man has a good grip on reality.

― Aimless, Saturday, 4 September 2010 20:22 (fifteen years ago)

...whatever that is

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 September 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

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