Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Reunion On The 1976 MDA Telethon Part Two

Part Two of this historic piece of entertainment history. Dean and Frank run through their aforementioned "meldee"...

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• Dean
• Martin
• Jerry
• Lewis
• Reunion
• 1976
• MDA
• Telethon
• Frank
• Sinatra

[StooGP]

Look how nervous Jerry is at about 20 seconds in here, you can't fake that...

[TopSalesPrincess]

I read in several books that Dean played up the drunk part and was not that drunk. I think he was nervous.

[trjfred]

We need legends like this again. What a classic moment.  All the good ones are gone.

[mbrand19971]

There are many moments in entertainment history and this reunion of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis justifies that moment. We'll never seen something like this again

[tuxguys]

I come back to this at least once every six months...

I'm struck for the first time by the realization that, after Martin and Lewis split up, Martin and Sinatra became defacto partners, at least in movies.

Also, notice the dynamic in this epochal medley: Martin has assumed the role of the "funny one," and Sinatra is the straight man.

[edwardare1]

Dean was a pro-Jerry had to be in charge-but together they changed comedy forever.

Their timing and their obvious love for each other still makes me smile and laugh.

[TheDeanmartinfan1]

@Billzor69 dean did know frank called him and asked him if he wanted to go he said "sure"

[MRjandean1]

@TopSalesPrincess |Dean waqs king of cool. He really was never nervous. |Even not in this jerrys show. greetings from netherlands jan

[Hinda39]

@HerrEllsworth --- Frank Sinatra was at Sammy Davis's conversion. He was always a friend of the Jews and gave to Israel. He didn't make it known. Mel is a nothing. Look at what passes for talent nowadays. If you can get into trouble with the law - you'll be famous instead of forgotten. Mel and his papa are just outcasts from Tarrytown, NY when the town got together and made sure the Gibsons would be sent packing in the early 60s for anti-American/anti-Jewish comments. JUSTICE!

[chgw01]

Man. Dean just can't stop looking over at Jerry. Frank's like: "you can meet after the show!" haha, just great.

[windowsy39]

@HerrEllsworth Im Jewish, and I can tell you, Gibson did it with 'HATE' he hates the Jews cause His Daddy said to,and that there never was a holocust. Boy, I sure wish that my cousins who were put in Hitlers furnace could hear that. Jerry, Frank, Dean, Sammy have been friends for a thousand years, and it doesn't matter to them what each one is. Dean a Catholic said that with love, he was partners with Jerry a Jew for over 20 years and religion was not a problem.



[mactherapist]

thank-you for posting. brings back wonderful memories of staying up to "watch the stars come out.". If everyone who saw this would give to MDA, wouldn't that be great?

[HerrEllsworth]

"You turn Jewish on me?" Try getting away with that these days!! Mel Gibson should have made his drunken comments in the seventies so he wouldn't have gotten in trouble.