This is truly wonderful and awful and hilarious and awkward and all things a good chunk of old talk show should be. Jerry is close to cracking, having to do a show shortly after the announcement of his talk show's cancellation. Also, Phil Foster is hilarious, calling Jerry on the phoniness of some of his comedic anecdotes and the caricature that adorns his restaurant's sign. This is great stuff.
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Weird to see Jerry Lewis trying to keep it silly in the light of having his show canceled.
Too bad you don't have the clips of Sam Cooke and Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay). The chimp doesn't compare.
We have Cassius Clay. Just click on "Jerry Lewis Show" in the subject line.
From the context of the conversation it sounds like this was broadcast in early December 1963 -- viewers still shellshocked by the Kennedy assassination were NOT going to spend two hours on a Saturday night watching Jerry Lewis clown around.
Any extant footage of the premiere broadcast in September, which instantly became TV legend as one of the worst telecasts ever?
If Jerry is making fun of the Beatles' "Yeah Yeah Yeah," this should be AFTER their Feb 1964, Sullivan appearance. While their music was circulating in the States before that, "Yeah Yeah Yeah" certainly wasn't a catch phrase on TV before Feb '64, so this COULD even be a month or two later. Regardless... this is a fascinating view. Thanks.
I just watched this on dvd. Talk about a sleep inducer...
If the show was always this boring it's no wonder it got canned.
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