Every year, when the Labor Day telethon is broadcast on WGN and I see that cariacature of Jerry Lewis that appears on the telethon logo, I think of what may be the world's most infamous film. A film so awful, so distasteful, that only a handful of people have ever seen it.
Once again, I give you: Jerry Lewis' The Day the Clown Cried
"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 presence 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."
-Harry Shearer
11 years ago
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