Jerry Lewis

All I'm saying is what we need if we win this.

Do you remember the old Jerry Lewis MDA telethons? And Jerry would always tell me, man, hit the timpani.

We need that little, you know, the music.

You know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, the old, yeah.

Jerry Lewis did the telethon every year.

It was like for 24 hours.

It's like the board.

If you can get it through your fucking pinhead, that if you applied that to science, just imagine if everyone was working on the problems.

Maybe that's why Jerry Lewis kept having to do all of those fucking telethons.

You know what I mean? We didn't allow everybody's big brains to get in there.

Old reference.

Particularly in France.

I mean, France, you know, they always – Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen, and Wong Kar Wai.

Okay.

But it's not been – in the pre – in the build-up to 97 where it would be much more interesting if the films from 1996 reflected unease and chaos and bloodshed and what have you.

hey hollywood was bustling back then baby what can i tell you it's my net that's my net by the way not my gross

my net over inflated sense of worth this i am so happy that so many people documented the that is jerry lewis because nobody would believe it nobody would believe it if you told these stories

isn't that a larger issue than one man i said you're not listening to me If you can't put the price on one man's life.

Oh, my God.

Right, it was separated.

Yes.

But imagine, you know what Jerry Lewis looked like when he was 24 years old.

Right.

my net

over inflated sense of worth this i am so happy that so many people documented the that is jerry lewis because nobody would believe it nobody would believe it if you told these stories

isn't that a larger issue than one man i said you're not listening to me If you can't put the price on one man's life.

Oh.

separated.

Yes.

But imagine, you know what Jerry Lewis looked like when he was 24 years old.

Right.

And so when I remember when we moved to Virginia over the weekend, it was Labor Day weekend.

Do you remember Jerry Lewis, the Labor Day telethon?

I think so.

Yeah.

we moved

there.

So I remember watching the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon

and telling my mom,

Depicts the bureaucracy of the television industry very well.

I think the decision to have Jerry Lewis in that part, I think is just a stroke of genius.

I think there are multiple moments in the movie where you are kind of enveloped into Rupert's schemes and fantasy that are just, the rug gets pulled out at the perfect moment.

You know, for one, when he invites this girl that he's gone on a date with, similar to Taxi Driver, takes him to the porn theater, but takes him to the house of the man he's essentially stalking.

And the way that Jerry Lee, I mean, I've never really personally connected to a lot of Jerry Lewis's material.

I find it a little too zippy, a little too cartoonish.

But the fact that he plays that scene completely poker-faced almost as this man has, he's discovered this man in his house acting as if they're old friends.

You know, do they go full activist and all impeachment all the time? Or do they actually focus on what voters said they wanted to do? And so we're going to be following all of these things in the coming weeks and giving you our thoughts on these things.

But I think for now, we don't want to make it the Jerry Lewis telethon version of election analysis.

So I think we'll leave it there and we'll have a lot more to say next week here on Next Round.

So for my friend Matt Fleming and myself, Thank you for joining us for our weekly look at politics and policy from a free market perspective.