[lbo-talk] Jerry Lewis as worst-case scenario[wasRe:PrivateHateMail Gang Up]

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 07:40:21 PDT 2005


On Monday, September 12, 2005 7:07 AM [PDT], Andy F <andyf274 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> Maybe this notion got blown out of proportion:
>
> <http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a991001.html>
>
> Do the French really love Jerry Lewis?
>


> for the European
> critic, Lewis' comic strength is the comically
> accurate depiction of the American mentality--its
> brash, vulgar overzealousness," writes Gerald Mast in
> The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies (1979).
>

Insightful... I also think GWB is also an accurate depiction of the American mentality, morality, it's wants, it's mores..... "its brash, vulgar overzealousness,"

Leigh



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