[lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis, genius?

[joanna]

There's a difference between cocktail chatter and art criticism...though 
this might be news to many graduate schools.

A word like "genius" includes folks like Archimedes, Donatello, 
Caravaggio, Da Vinci,  Mozart, Einstein, but not Jerry Lewis. He's 
simply not in that league.

If you narrow the category further to, say,  "comic genius," you get 
folks like Aristophanes, Chaucer, Moliere, Chaplin, and, maybe, Monty 
Python. But still no Jerry Lewis.

Joanna