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Yes, it is The Comedy Bureau Field Report’s 100th Episode. This podcast started at the beginning of the pandemic and the pandemic has been going on this damn long. That said, it’s quite the milestone and, as such, we have Yemi Afolabi, a comedian who TCB’s Jake Kroeger started out with back at the turn of the decade to the 2010s, who has had an astounding journey himself going from finding himself in some corner of comedy in LA to gaining real heat doing stand-up in Sweden (often in Swedish/English hybrid known as Swenglish) and then coming back to NYC to focus in on climbing the ladder in the endlessly competitive NYC comedy scene.

Yemi talks all about that and more as well as “hot” takes on Aziz Ansari/Bill Murray’s latest feature project, the passing of Amazing Jonathan, and more.

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Well, It Looks Like We Lost Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory in The Same Weekend

August 20, 2017

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For his trailblazing comedy duo, Martin & Lewis, with Dean Martin, his streak of films (including The Bellboy and The Nutty Professor back in the 60s and 70s whose effect on comedy still reverberate today), and being the superb chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (Lewis’ telethon for the MDA was probably one of the most recognizable telethons to this day), Jerry Lewis has undoubtedly left his mark on comedy and the entertainment business, both here in America and in Europe (where he was often times more celebrated).

This news of Jerry Lewis’ passing at 91 comes right on the heels of Dick Gregory succumbing to heart failure yesterday at the age of 84.

It should be noted that Jerry Lewis was always unapologetically himself, which has brought up his fair share of controversy (The Day The Clown Died, his very problematic opinions on women in comedy) as well as this 2016 interview he tolerated giving to The Hollywood Reporter that many people loved for how awkward he made it.

Lewis was definitely the sort of person that Sinatra’s My Way was for.

Watch Featurette From Jerry Lewis’ Infamous ‘The Day The Clown Cried”

August 12, 2013

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Watch Featurette From Jerry Lewis’ Infamous ‘The Day The Clown Cried”

Comedy legend Jerry Lewis’ “The Day The Clown Cried” has been almost an urban legend for simply being a movie about a clown that leads children to a concentration camp gas chamber and Lewis vowing for it to never see the light from a projector ever.

However, a featurette of the film showing Lewis on set doing a few takes from the movie as well as setting scenes has been uploaded to YouTube and while not revealing what the macabrely fascinated part of you would want to see, you can imagine what was only to follow.

It has hints of the documentary that should win the Oscar this year about surviving death squad leaders reenacting the murders they carried out decades later and their reaction to doing so, The Act of Killing, but for comedy.

Cinefamily Is Doing an Entire Retrospective on Jerry Lewis This Month

March 3, 2013

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Cinefamily Is Doing an Entire Retrospective on Jerry Lewis This Month

Apparently, there was a 6 hour in 6 parts documentary that was made about Jerry Lewis and his storied career in film, television, and comedy. Now that you know that, you’ll be more than happy to know that Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre will be showing all 6 parts in addition to accompanying Jerry Lewis classics. Check Cinefamily’s calendar to see when Bonjour, Mr. Lewis is playing here.

Also, Cinefamily is killing it with comedy lately in case you haven’t noticed (Benson Movie Interruption, Greg Proops Film Club, Wayne Federman International Film Festival, Heart of Darkness, etc.)

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 100: Yemi Afolabi & Comedy in Swenglish

Well, It Looks Like We Lost Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory in The Same Weekend

Watch Featurette From Jerry Lewis’ Infamous ‘The Day The Clown Cried”

Cinefamily Is Doing an Entire Retrospective on Jerry Lewis This Month