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A robber accosts Jack Benny and demands, "Your money or your life!" The audience convulses into laughter as Benny hesitates.

Decades of Christmas specials have established a set of standards to live up to, or down to, as in the case of "Larry the Cable Guy's Hula-Palooza Christmas Luau" . The first principle of the inappropriately early Christmas special is to recognize the fact that the audience has no illusions that it has not been taped months earlier on a stage in ...

A man afraid of commitment suspects that his current girlfriend is the serial spouse-killer he has read about in the Weekly World News .

Jerry Lewis : Clown prince of arrested development or the most cerebral Hollywood funny man since Buster Keaton ? Either you find Jer's manic outbursts funny, or you don't , but there's no disputing his ambition.

Dir. Jerry Lewis . More hit than miss, this zany spoof of the movie business opens like an exploding firecracker and delightfully manages to puncture everyone at a large picture studio called Paramutual.

Universal will release The Philanthropist: The Complete Series on DVD on 5 January.

Popcorn Taxi hosts screen icon Jerry Lewis [Tue 22/09/2009 03:18:33] It was literally standing room only, as Popcorn Taxi presented a living legend, after an exclusive, sold-out screening of his most famous movie at Greater union, Bondi Junction.

It has co-starred with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Jerry Lewis, was one of the first passenger aircraft and has held such non-glamorous roles as crop duster and forest fire fighter.

I'm 57 years old. I make that declaration freely and without reservation, despite the fact that many of my younger readers will think me old.

It's no understatement to say Jerry Lewis is a legend in the world of film comedy, with a career spanning more than 60 years and a string of classic performances -- from the original Nutty Professor to Scorsese's brilliant, dark The King of Comedy -- that have inspired generations of funny men.

"It's like really old television, with new script pages coming all the time," said Joe Stewart of the telethon, a portion of which will air Monday, starting at 9 a.m. on WNOL-Channel 38.

In the early 80's, the very first program I saw on the then new cable TV was the Jerry Lewis narrated Little Rascals documentary RASCAL DAZZLE .

Everybody loves a clown. Maybe that's why it's still so easy to root for Gary Lewis.

Humour cinema so often reminds us is no laughing matter. When comedy is itself the subject of a film, it's invariably associated with depression and moral vacancy.

Brad Pitt and Eli Roth star in “Inglourious Basterds.” For more Sidetracks content, visit nwherald.com/sidetracks “Inglorious Basterds” 2-1/2 stars Rated R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality Running time: 2 hours, 32 minutes Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino Starring Brad Pitt, Diane ...

So, Penn Jillette, how long has it been since youa ve been the spokesman for Aid for AIDS of Nevada ? a oeTen years,a he says.

Some of you who read this are old enough and some of you who read this are not old enough.

Imagine Mel Brooks directing Strindberg. Or Groucho, Chico and Harpo playing the Brothers Karamazov.

First Shot: Kelp: a brother out? A friend I keep up with largely via social-not-working has alerted me to an interesting Playbill piece .

Share + Jul 2, 2009 9:00 am US/Central 1 of 1 Announcer Ed McMahon performs during the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon at CBS Television Studios on Aug.