Howard Stern - Harry Shearer discusses "The Day the Clown Cried" - 3/31/2011

This is a segment from a recent Howard Stern show, where he gets Harry Shearer on the line to discuss his viewing of the infamous and rarely seen Jerry Lewis film, "The Day the Clown Cried". It clears up one misconception over the years, that Jerry himself had shown the film to Shearer. As it turns out, someone else did. Shearer plays coy in this interview with the person's name, but its already known that it was Joshua White, director of the 1979 telethon.

You can download two different drafts of the script for FREE, and read various articles about it here:

http://subcin.com/clowncried.html

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[marklansing]

I have no idea if there was any Iranian financing behind THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED, but that really IS one of the reasons why Orson Welles' THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND was never released ... associates of the Shah of Iran invested in the film, and when the revolution came, it created a legal mess that went unresolved for decades.

[antoniod]

According to about three different books on Lewis, the reason "Clown" cant be shown is that the option on the script (by Joan O'Brian) ran out either before or during production-but Jerry decided to make the film anyway. But O'Brian(who said that the film was "so bad I wish they'd burn It") and co. will not sell Lewis the rights or allow the film to be released. As for "names" in the cast, a few, like French comedian Pierre Etaix, are names in Europe, but not in the US.

[ACoolKidsProduction]

Were you able to find the clips from the telethon that the caller talked about?

[Jorrun]

thanks so much for posting this!

[impossiblefunky]

There's a review of the film on The Projection Booth podcast -- projection dash booth dot com