In honor of Jerry Lewis and his Labor Day Telethon, I give you his greatest cinematic achievement: The Day the Clown Cried.

Harry Shearer, one of the few people in the world to have ever seen the film, had this to say,

"With most of these kinds of things, you find that the anticipation, or the concept, is better than the thing itself. But seeing this film was really awe-inspiring, in that you are rarely in the presense of a perfect object. This was a perfect object.

This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. Oh My God! - that's all you can say."