Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Martin & Lewis upstage Hope & Crosby (1952)


3 comments:

Tom Ruegger said...

fantastic clip...have never seen it before! thanks!

Kevin K. said...

The Museum of the Moving Image (in Queens, NY) ran this entire segment at its Jerry Lewis retrospective in the '80s. I don't remember it being half an hour, but it was pretty long and absolutely hilarious. Bob Hope returns to the stage at some point is clearly pissed-off at Jerry in particular as each tries to take control of the stand-up mike. At one point Hope barks, "Shut up, you little idiot!" with an edge in his voice. Bing supposedly ran off stage because he was afraid Dean & Jerry were going tear off his toupee.

Tom Ruegger said...

Classic! Yeah, Bing would not want to lose the hairpiece. I never saw this sort of ad libbing and improv from Jerry before. No doubt he did it all the time. Great stuff!