MISUNDERSTOOD OR ASSHOLE?

I always thought of Jerry Lewis as the funny awkward guy with a whiny voice. Every film he did with Dean Martin and alone up to 1969 made Lewis a staple of comedy. Eventually the Jerry Lewis style of comedy became passe but he was still a mega star. Eventually Jerry Lewis would play someone closer to himself in the film The King of Comedy.

I began learning about the real Jerry Lewis many years after first watching him on film for the first time. Jerry Lewis seemed to be a moody, mercurial, almost arrogant guy. The Jerry Lewis of interviews was a far cry from the weird dude screaming " Nice Lady" and performing physical feats. The fact is that Lewis was actually a creative genius whose ability to write comedy and technical capacity was pretty amazing.

The thing about Jerry Lewis is that he is kind of a jerk and when he says something people usually take it like a sort of controversial comment. Lewis has often said, and he reiterated, that he does not like women in comedy. The comments sounds sexist and almost ignorant given the rich history of women comics. Lewis did state recently that women should not go down to the lowest common denominator, that he doesn't find it appealing. So does Lewis think comedy is cheap and the lowest common denominator? Does Lewis think that women can only be funny if they make the lowest type of jokes? Perhaps Lewis is sexist and believes comedy is a supreme form reserved only for men. It can also be speculated that the nutty professor simply finds comedy to be the plumbers of showbiz.

Perhaps Jerry is afraid of NICE LADIES!!!!