Jerry shmoozes about Pauline Kael

[catbird007]

Jerry Lewis is a very angry man inside

[McNugget06]

BROWN SHOES THEY DESERVE IT!

[skinwalkerxxx]

Jerry is far smarter than I tought he was.

[BeatleUniversity]

@skinwalkerxxx Very true!

[axcz3]

what year was this Cavit episode exactly? Can someone please post the actual year. Thanks.--

[9162vb48]

Two of the biggest phonies in show business!!

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Class act

[afrontrowkid]

I saw the Martin and Lewis films as a kid. When they split up, I watched both of them discuss the relationship. Both were probably at a fault, but after watching Jerry perform on his own, I am suprised that the billing for their movies wasn: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and JERRY'S EGO. The capital letters are intentional since his ego took third billing.

[charliemctruth]

Cavett made me squirm when I watched him in the 70's.

Now..30 years later ...I squirm inwardly.

[termsofusepolice]

He certainly didn't appreciate the Dean Martin question.

[MJRookieRook]

@termsofusepolice I know right? You could see it all over his face. Even if it was meant to be a joke, why would you say something like that? Their split most definitely did hurt him. It is said that he never watched their final film together because he said that it hurt him too much.

[Franks559]

Watch the whole episode, it's brilliant.

[chaseyl1]

He IS smart-and he IS smarmy -and even his worst mid-60's fare made many boring young saturday afternoons all the better....

[searcherboy]

He does have a bit of a pretentious way of speaking. At the time of this interview, he was addicted to the painkiller Percodan after severely injuring his back onstage in Las Vegas in 1965. He was in very bad shape, physically and mentally, for many years. He eventually had an electronic device implanted in his back - this was the only thing that would give him relief from chronic pain.

[edweibe]

I think at the beginning when he talks of soeone to do things with him as good or better and having to wait for another, he refers to Dean being gone.

[Tasutpen]

The critic Lewis is referring to is almost certainly Judith Crist.

[duppykitoon]

I think as a movie critic, Pauline Kael is a great food critic.

[MJRookieRook]

Jerry's a cutie ♥

[MJRookieRook]

Dirty old broad...

[seajayaway]

His smile at 7:34 looks so content with his comeback. Like "take that, ya jackass!"

[seajayaway]

Oh my gosh. It's soooo weird to see how tall Jerry really is.

[iaresloth]

Pauline Kael is one of the most horrid critics ever, on par with Armond White.

[JackKlompus13]

@iaresloth

I agree with you on so many levels!

[macandrewes]

I can rap Pauline Kael, Jerry. This is the woman who called 2001: A Space Odyssey "a monumentally unimaginative movie." What a dullard.

[DeanLeonard1]

As much as I love Kubrick, I know why some people--including Kael--never did glom onto him. He was a very cold, very precise, very anal director. And "2001"--while brilliant and trailblazing in many ways--does have, in the final analysis, a fairly vapid story. Its images sing. But the whole thing with the apes and the monolith and the Star Child--well, many found it obvious.

[JackKlompus13]

@macandrewes

I know, Pauline Kael is an idiot. 

[damone77]

Jerry~always the clown! I LOVE HIM!!!!

[TimKox]

I think Jerry needed to be like this because he was still unhappy about the breakup with dean that´s what I think , he worked as hard as he could to forget it, but when he had to sit down to talk to someone face to face he knew how he could save himself from a deeper look inside

[iantara]

I dont see his arrogance,can someone please highlight it for me.Supreme at what he does,if that is arrogance he is the biggest arrogant tit on earth.Guys a genius.

[bangbgood]

@iantara As Orson Welles said "He's been coming on as a great thinker. This must be stopped."  The pretentiousness begins when you click on play and ends (in this clip) nine minutes and twenty two seconds later.

[LazlosPlane]

Lewis never acted as well as when he was "himself." That's all I get from this. I don't believe, maybe, 95% of it.

Only when he talks about Martin do I trust what he's saying. Few other things. Rest is bullshit.

But it's still great stuff.

[sallygal7]

I love his offhand false modesty, barely masking his incredible arrogance. But he's the real thing -- no denying it. And he has guts along with his great talent. Go Jerry!

[JayH7745]

Jerry kinda played down the question about Dean Martin, and went on... LOL

[ninyae]

What is your birth sign? I guess this was right after the song Aquarious.

[jess3a3]

Worthless C-UNT- Where is her grave so I can PISS on it?

[eurovision0portugal]

Ofcourse Pauline Kael never said anything good about Jerry, she was inteligent & a brilliant critic & he's just a presumptuous nontalented idiot one of the biggest Hollywood frauds

[MrsXantipa]

Eurovision0portugal, unless you're more talented and proven WAY more intelligent, more articulate, more successful and more able to get a big fortune and a better career, unless you invent something useful in any area and get yourself some fans,better than Jerry Lewis did, keep your beak at small angle and your ankles going around in small circles...Until you get appreciated by men such as Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Woody Allen, Marin Scorsese, like Jerry did, just keep a low profile,ok?

[bibibabkagirl]

omg he is so tall! hahaha. wow! u never really see how tall he is but god.

and what kind of question was the first one? what an ass. jerry rocks

[camselle]

"It's either The Three Stooges, or this tall Jew.. go.. you know.."

[MrsXantipa]

I'm sorry that Jerry went through bad times in the 70s especially and later on in life, but he always came on his feet. A real fighter and a great man. Love you, Jerry

[eurovision0portugal]

Watching ANY Jerry Lewis interview, besides all the huge hollywood presumptuousness of this nontalented fraud, one can always sence the scary comedians cold hearted nature & nasty soul

[Aliyeenah]

He is a greatly talented actor and comedian and a very intelligent person. I wonder if those who attack him here and accuse him of being untalented and nasty have any talents whatsoever, if they can do what he does better than him, if they did any charity work at all, like he did out of his "cold, nasty heart", if they have accomplished anything near to what he has. They certainly haven't, and maybe that's what really bothers them.

[EmpressDR]

If only I could be there to interview people on the red carpet. I'm an interviewer. too, but still a student. I love Jerry. He is a god.

[Aliyeenah]

...and one more thing: as "cold-hearted" and "nasty" as you label him, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Have you ever been close to getting such a distinction? Will you ever be? Oh, well, it's always so easy to criticize and throw stones at others...sometimes just because they are better than us...

[EmpressDR]

Thank you for standing up for Jerry. I didn't want to read whatever trash that person wrote and I won't. Jerry is wonderful, the best. Also --it's high past time that he got all the awards that he deserves. From the Academy awards, he deserves the Lifetime Achievement Award, the technical award --for having created the camera video assist; for the Irving Thalberg award ---and for the Jean Hersholt. FINALLY they see fit to give it to Jerry --The Jean Hersholt, at LEAST. This year, on Feb. 22.

[Aliyeenah]

You are so absolutely right about the awards Jerry deserves. The Jean Hersholt is not enough. It is so unfair that he hasn't received a Lifetime Achievement Award...

I wish you the best of luck in your interview career on the red carpet!

[bibibabkagirl]

go to hell

[ACNC1]

Why do they have to get the audience to ask dumbass questions

[levanyzzuf]

It's strange how compulsively watchable this man is when he's being serious and candid. I've never much cared for him when he tries to be funny :)

[BeatleUniversity]

@levanyzzuf I agree!!!

[DeanLeonard1]

Is the other female critic Judith Crist, perhaps?

[kolst8406]

It could be Kael's colleague at the New Yorker, Renata Adler.

[billB2GBG]

His movies are funny if you're 11 years old, but his stuff takes themes and makes tediious watching. Thinking here about Visit to a Small Planet and Way Way Out; stuff that grinds the gags in your face long after their humor has moved on.

[odaibaman]

Great comments from Jerry Lewis about the late, great film critic Pauline Kael. That woman could write with the best of them. Surf the internet and read one of her New Yorker essays. You'll start reading and (trust me) you won't be able to stop until you're finished.

[rootykazooty]

i wanna know who's the OTHER NY female critic to whom he's referring.

[stargate121]

Rona Barrett, maybe?

[rootykazooty]

acourse. dat's it stargate...thx

[sneyder69]

Jerry is so funny and a good actor, i have so mutch respect for him, like to know if he has a online fanclub

[GeorgePedrosa]

I could sit for hours just hearing this man talk about the film industry. He is frank and honest and his comments about Pauline Kael are brilliant...

[kittenready]

tall fucker ain,t he

[StewartSummers]

cavett is awful...he competes with his guests..he thinks he is soooo funny, glib....clever. horrible. the worst. his work doesn't hold up...cavett that is. jerry lewis is great always.

[simonmoves]

thanks ever so much--fascinating interview--this is the best of jerry-despite what some think..

[JerryLewisLover]

Jerry is such a good man. If I could just sit down and talk to Jerry, it would change my life. He really loves people. "And one day I'm gonna peel her." haha Thanx for posting these!

[FunnyWrong]

If i could sit down and talk to Jerry...i think i'd faint. lol He's so smart and funny...That's really rare. He knows where to draw the line at Funny and UnFunny.

[MrKiwi63]

true and at funny comedy and toilet comedy....ever noticed how he is very clean in his jokes....who says we need swearing and gross stuff to make things funny....jerry rules

[Raemi23]

wow, i must say. whatever age jerry was when this interview was filmed, he was very handsome. he aged very well. he must have had killer genes! =)

[crocetti1984]

46.

[roscoegino]

he's taller than i thought

[torgman]

Jerry has the balls to pick on someone else's wardrobe?! :D

[pammy1971]

Thankyou so much for this, I love any opportunity to watch Jerr. I love to hear him talk; sounds weird I know. He's just wonderful and I love him.He is so bloody sexy; I was only one when this took place.

[PrestonPowell]

I'm trying to figure out the other New York film critic he was referring to. Was it Susan Sontag? It couldn't of been her because she was a good film critic.

[camselle]

New ice cream flavor: CHERRY LEWIS

[crocetti1984]

it's nutty!

[MIKESOWELL]

only recently has jerry really aged, mostly due to his weight battles and illnesses.he doesn't look 46 here.

[wayne763]

My parents dropped me off at the theatre for Hardly Working when i was 9. I didn't understand then, but it was Lewis's first film in a decade and my dad was a great admirer of his. The telethon is family tradition for us. Anyways I loved it and it's one of my fondest childhood memories.

To be a bit philisopical, I think my parents left me alone because Jerry was babysitting me, in a way.

[brotolas]

jerry is the greatest!!

[onlinechinese]

i want to get some inf about Kael ,but i fail ,you guys tell me

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[Dzhendobri]

Dear Cavettbi.,

Thanks for writing that great quote at the top right.

Isn't Jerry great !

Cheers.

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del-boy.

[weikko79]

I wonder whatever Pauline Kael wrote about Jerry Lewis. The only review of a Lewis film I remember reading from her was about "The King of Comedy".

[horsegirl13orli]

Hahaha! That dirty old broad.Jerry you are wonderful!

[westy40]

Ah.. the year was 1972

[westy40]

Great post!!! Anyone know what year this was?

[camselle]

Every theatre/acting/filmaking student should watch this.

Todos los estudiantes de cinema/actuacion deben de ver esto.

[jababik]

You know. I just quit smoking. But take a look, Jerry smoking away about 35 years ago...and he is still alive, right?

[RioLove7]

He sure is. :)

[ana7ana7ana]

I love seeing jerry the man as much as jerry the funny kid.

[hamshine]

'one day i'm gonna peel her' LOL

[jjaniero]

wow, this is an amazing clip. thanks for posting.

[califgirl101]

Very intresting interview. What ever happened to Mr. Martin? He married Cyd Sharice! Great stuff! Thanks again. Cheers! :)

[hamshine]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.