Jerry Lewis is dead......91 years old.

[a kennedy]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/advance-obit-jerry-lewis-dead-721408

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. 😲😔

💧

[NurseJackie]

2. Rest in Piece. Thanks for the laughs!

[USALiberal]

3. Loved him when I was younger! nt

[MineralMan]

4. Hey! Laydee!

[Leith]

10. Whoa!

Was that really necessary? He was a good person and did what he could for children with Muscular Dystrophy. Don't hate him for political views.

[WoonTars]

14. But refugees can go fuck themselves right?

You are judged on your ENTIRE life, not just the bits that people liked...

He supported Raygun and Trump.

No tears shed here.

[Leith]

15. I Don't Care What You Thought of Him

Don't ever attack me for saying something nice about a good thing that someone did. I hope I am correct in saying that is not your best side.

[WoonTars]

20. Please point out where i attacked YOU.

I'll wait....

Don't EVER put words in my mouth. I hope i am correct in saying that is not your best side.

[Leith]

21. You Implied That I Thought

that refugees could go fuck themselves.

Why else would you bring that up?

Right?

[WoonTars]

35. No, i repeated Jerry Lewis's stance that refugees could go fuck themselves..

Nothing to do with you, and most certainly not an attack on you.

I don't think he was a particularly nice guy, in fact i think he was a bigot, and my point was you don't get to cherry-pick someone's life just to make them seem nicer than they were. He was a fan of Raygun, who himself was a bigot, and Dump who, as we all know, is a racist.

Did he do great things for disabled kids? Apparently so, but he also had a very dark side. Neither cancels the other out, but both need to be acknowledged imo.

[lunamagica]

18. Many people who have from MD disagree with you. Even several "Jerry's Kids"

Who feel they were exploited

"Protesters decry Lewis’ assessment of living with MD as being “half a person.” He once said in response, “Pity? (If) you don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in ya house!”

http://www.denverpost.com/2010/09/06/greene-former-jerrys-kid-sees-telethon-as-an-insult-to-md-victims/

I don't think he was a good person, and political views reflect who people are. If he supported trump (who btw mocked the disabled), it shows what kind of person he was

[obamanut2012]

22. Actually, most people with MD loathe Jerry Lewis

Including one I know very well. She and her family actually hated him, and considered him an extreme bigot against disabled folks, who tried to make money and hold until celebrity on their backs.

[BannonsLiver]

24. Has there been any polling done among the MD community as far as Lewis' popularity/approval?

I've always wondered if there was a prevailing wind one way or another.

[obamanut2012]

25. Good question

I am going by statements released, and the lack of cooperation with him as the years went by.

[lunamagica]

28. Well, I don't think that after statements such as "living with MD as being half

a person.” He once said in response, “Pity? (If) you don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in ya house!” He'd have much love and support from the MD community.

http://www.cripcommentary.com/LewisVsDisabilityRights.html

https://ar-ar.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=69068635319

http://crasstalk.com/2011/09/no-pity-for-jerry-lewis/

[whistler162]

31. As a counter to those opinions....

http://www.salon.com/2001/06/06/lewis_7/

[lunamagica]

32. My goodness, that article is just sad. Do you agree that if people in wheelchairs don't want pity

they should stay home? Are you defending his statements? do you believe (as he said) that a person in a wheelchair is half a person? Are you OK with that?

[whistler162]

33. Are you okay with not having compassion or

concern for the suffering and misfortune of others!

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pity

[lunamagica]

34. You did not answer my question, please

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Do you agree that if people in wheelchairs don't want pity they should stay home? Are you defending his statements? do you believe (as he said) that a person in a wheelchair is half a person? Are you OK with that?

[dalton99a]

6. Interesting

Thought he was already buried

[Iggo]

7. Whoa! Fuck!

When I was a little kid, I felt he was talking directly to me. I felt like he was one of us.

That's about the highest praise I can give a person.

RIP Jerry Lewis.

[Miles Archer]

8. I question whether he enjoyed life on any level in his final years

That cantankerous interview from (I believe) last year, as an example.

I guess that at this moment there's no shortage of positive or negative things that could be written about the man, so I'll simply sawy "RIP."

[Gothmog]

9. May he rest in peace

[spanone]

11. i grew up in the fifties and he was one funny mofo....RIP

[demtenjeep]

12. aw-labor day was never the same when they removed him

he was passionate for Jerry's Kids

[bdamomma]

13. Aw

Rest In Peace Jerry.

[briv1016]

16. Betty White grows stronger.

[Boomerproud]

17. A very interesting interview from 1965 with David Susskind (imo)

Very different side to him.

&t=6s

[maveric]

19. "Nice Nice Lady..."

RIP and thanks for the many laughs.

[Nevernose]

23. The Day the Clown Cried

Maybe now we can finally see the whole thing?

[edhopper]

26. It was never finished

and will never be released in any form.

[Nevernose]

27. Unreleased, not unfinished.

Harry Shearer claims to have seen it in the 70s at Lewis's house. Lewis himself said that he had the movie (he paid personally to finish it) but was so terrible nobody would see it while he was alive.

He's not alive anymore, obviously.

I, for one, would like to see what is apparently the most accidentally offensive movie ever made. Of course, I'm also a big John Waters fan and think "Pink Flamingos" is high art.

[edhopper]

30. I have read a few articles on it

It's not clear if it was. I think he filmed it and never edited a finished version.
Perhaps his estate will release what is there.

[ADX]

29. Rest in peace, Mr. Lewis...

...thanks for the laughs and the memories.