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[number six]

Jerry Lewis, the rubber-faced comedian and director whose fundraising telethons became as famous as his hit movies, has died.

Publicist Candi Cazau says Lewis passed away Sunday morning of natural causes at age 91 in Las Vegas with his family by his side.

Lewis first became a star in a duo with Dean Martin, entertaining audiences in nightclubs, on television and in the movies. After their split in 1956, he starred in and directed a slew of hit films such as "The Nutty Professor."

[0geist0]

At least now we will have a week of his best movies to watch.
RIP Jerry Lewis.

[ibis]

Love JL as a kid and watching telethons was a ritual.  But as he grew older I actually began to dislike the guy.  He was pretty outspoken about female comics being bad and even said at one point that women aren't funny and shouldn't do comedy.  Kind of lost some respect for the guy after that.  Unfortunately he wasn't the only one saying that.  Must be that old mind set or something. 

[k7]

in his defense:



and

[PinFever]

as far as women in comedy, I kind of agree, but a few women have made me laugh in comedy/  so not all suck, but 95 percent do not make me even smile ..  Hard for women to do comedy , very hard.   Women back in his day were even worse. can't remember one name even of the two whom made me laugh. one is a redhead / the other was that Emo Black hair chick that was in the Mike myers Comedy movie married an axe murderer or something like that . Forgot the actual movie name

[Sid]

Love JL as a kid and watching telethons was a ritual.  But as he grew older I actually began to dislike the guy.  He was pretty outspoken about female comics being bad and even said at one point that women aren't funny and shouldn't do comedy.  Kind of lost some respect for the guy after that.  Unfortunately he wasn't the only one saying that.  Must be that old mind set or something.

I agree with Jerry.  Female comedians are NOT funny.

[sinistar71]

As far as women comics, there have been some good ones,  Lucille Ball was funny. So was Gilda Radner, and of course Carol Burnett was friggin hilarious.
On the other hand, Amy Schumer needs to crawl back up into whatever butt-hole she dropped out of.

[Sid]

Sarah Silverman made me laugh once.

[Steve O]

Count me in on the He-Man Woman Hater Club for female comedians.  I liked watching Carol Burnett when I was a kid.  Since then it is slim pickings on funny women.

[Mamushka]

Generally agree about female comics. However, on a Disney cruise they had a female comedian named Maryellen Hooper.  Yeah, never heard of her either. If you are married with young kids, it was a pretty good show. My favorite line:

"My son has colic, do you know what that is? That is a medical term that means; please stop crying before I shake you."

Overall she was pretty damn funny

[Baiter]

He was pretty outspoken about female comics being bad and even said at one point that women aren't funny and shouldn't do comedy.

Interesting considering he was contemporary to Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, both of which he praised.  The issue he had is specifically with crude female comedy, but he likely didn't appreciate male crude comedy either.