This is a guest post from Tabitha Vidaurri, a writer and comedinette from Brooklyn In 1971 Jerry Lewis infamously directed and starred in a film about the Holocaust titled The Day the Clown Cried. For reasons that are still unclear, Lewis chose to depart from his trademark slapstick formula and play the role of Helmut […]
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‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Behind the scenes of the infamous Jerry Lewis film
15th March 2013 – 10:22
Mwah-ha-ha-ha: 6 Movie Monsters Ranked by Sense of Humor
20th February 2013 – 13:42
Most movie monsters are so utterly dehumanized that they wouldn’t appreciate a good one-liner if they heard it — let alone be able to deliver one. However, every so often you run across a creature who seems to take perverse pleasure in trying to relate to humans through humor, even if its victims rarely survive […]