NEW EDIT - The Unresolved Feud Between Jerry Lewis and Bing Crosby
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2014
- NEW EDIT WITH ADDED MATERIAL -- In a series of clips, Jerry Lewis recounts what sparked off his decades-long feud with Bing Crosby -- which unfortunately was never resolved. The moral of the story is to forgive others while you're still alive. Don't hold onto grudges!
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Dean Martin was a real warrior to deal with such a disrespectful partner.
Until he decided that even he had had enough.
Dean knew where the money was don't kid yourself. He didn't know just how good he was until he left Lewis.
@@gopherstate777 I think Dean did pretty well on his own. He was a major recording star, actor, and had his own network show for almost ten years AFTER the split with Lewis. I think Dino faired pretty well without Jerry.
.. 10000 % agreed !!! Lewis always treated Martin like a lesser being like, without Lewis, Martin was nothing !!! Dean Martin was a legend, he had a career before Lewis, i remeber what Lewis said to Martin when Frank Sinatra trick them of being on the same stage, Lewis said to Martin : so ... are you working ???? i would have spit on his face !
Dean had more talent in his index finger than Lewis had in his whole head. Dean could do it all. TV Film Records, drama or comedy. Lewis had only one gear, the annoying unfunny adolescent BS that he always did. Screw Jerry Lewis.
Hollywood and in the entertainment industry in the 1960s two guys had a reputation of being very well liked by everyone. Dean Martin and Elvis.
Dean being easy going and laid back and Elvis being extremely humble , respectful and well mannered. Jerry Lewis managed to alienate and piss BOTH of them off . That says a lot.
Oh that’s interesting. I didn’t know that but I certainly believe it.
This was on live Television -- Jerry was impulsive and could have done anything -- I think that Bing was wise in doing a disappearing act.
Bob can handle someone like him. Bing is too reserved. Dean just showed up for a paycheck
@@Bigbadwhitecracker Bob didn't wear a toupe ...
Despite his talent can we just all admit that Jerry was an angry jagoff.
I agree Jerry was a big asshole and I never liked him. But they say Bing was a jerk as well. Takes one to know one I guess.
j2times2006
I totally agree with you.
Did he have talent ?. Dean Martin had talent
@@brianmccann2806 How dare you talk about Jerry Lewis who used the MDA to keep his fame going! Ehhh.....that didn't come out right.
I dare where eagles dare
Lewis acts as though he would never humiliate Bing Crosby by removing his toupee, yet he announces to the world that Crosby wears one. What a humanitarian.
A toupee is a wig. We all know Bing is bald. Why hide it?
Everyone knew Bing wore a toupee. He occasionally appeared in public and at golf tourneys without it.
@@lcs1956 Burt Reynolds , Ray Milan , The cast of Bonnanza, Mike Douglas , Howard Cosell , Liberace , Rip Taylor , Charles Nelson Reilly , Billy DeWolfe and others in the biz .
@@Jay-vr9ir John Wayne!
@@Jay-vr9ir Ha! I always tell people I watch Bonanza for the toupee's!
John Amos had a good toupee.
Let Lewis be offended. He was such a jerk.
Lewis was an egomaniac and liar. Period.
Jerry specifically excluded his first family AND any of their children from his will. All of them.
Let's see: He alienates himself from Crosby, then contradicts himself in interviews about it. Then alienates himself from Dean for 20 years.
Pure, unabashed, narcissism.
That really is sad about disinheriting his entire first family.
Narcissism indeed....he even admited it in his book
His kids from the first family are like 70. I think they're all collecting social security. One son had a successful singing career of his own & probably gets royalties. The others got his movie copyrights so they get royalties too. I think they didn't get any cash money but were taken care of in other ways. Just sayin'. Regardless, I find his shrieking & juvenile behavior annoying & not funny.
Lewis was not funny, just loud and obnoxious.
Jerry Lewis was the most unfunny man I have ever seen.his voice scrapes my ears .....arrogant and ill mannered in reality. I doubt if anyone who new him could honestly say they liked him. Just look at what he did to his sons in his will. A nice guy? I don’t think so.
Agreed. I hated the slob. Best thing about his life was that it ended.
You said it all. But, people pick that up. They see when he does his unfunny routines that deep down he’s being hurtful to people. And people aren’t stupid. They pick that up. I think he was totally disrespectful not only to Crosby but to his partner, Dean Martin. Lewis would never dare try that with Sinatra, he’d have a hard time doing the telethon with his legs broken and a fractured skull.
He wasn't the most unfunny man I've seen in the entertainment business. He had some talents. But he was a horrible human being.
So Jerry talks about how offended he was that Bing thought he would pull his toupee off but in the radio interview he said he would have pulled it off. Classy guy.
He probably wouldn't. Had he pulled Bing's toupee on live national TV he would have ended his career then and there. He wasn't that stupid.
I've never heard anyone who worked with Lewis say good things about him. After watching this old clip I can see why. When he and Martin split up Lewis was quoted as saying "No one will ever hear of Dean Martin again."
I think the problem with Jerry is that he didn’t have a middle ground. He was either hyper active and on the air or an asshole. So the person who probably disliked him the most was himself and that’s when it’s hard to forgive anyone because you don’t want to face the real person who’s been ticking you off...yourself.
Jerry Lewis, despite his comic talent, was not a nice man. He had a huge but fragile ego and could not accept any criticism or suggestion that he was in the wrong from anyone. He was to blame for breaking up with Dean Martin who himself was dignified through the whole business. What he did to Crosby at the telethon was a disgrace. Crosby was an older and much respected figure and to go for his hair when he knew he wore a toupee was disgusting. Someone should have punched Lewis out and then given money to charity! But Lewis had the cheek to say he never spoke to Crosby again! A sad little man really who undermined his talent by vain impulsive behaviour.
Well said, There are certain people one sees in life, some far to close up, that hours afterwards, the smell of them clings to a person and is like a nose punch.
Well put!
Bing probably did the right thing, and Jerry has contradicted himself more than once in regards to this incident with hope saying on jerrys on show that jerry would probably have done it cause he knew him and wasn't feeling like lying about it i'd imagine
Orson Welles is the king of contradictions and just plain old lies; Jerry is the fool prince.
Here is where Jerry Lewis contradicts himself. He tells one interviewer that he would not have pulled off Crosby's toupee while in another interview Lewis said he would have done exactly that if he had the opportunity. It's like Lewis claiming he initiated the break-up with Dean Martin. Martin told the BBC (in a rare interview) that he walked away from the partnership after ten years because he did not like the Hal Wallis movies with Lewis and was especially tired of Lewis' increasingly monopolizing the act.
Mark,
The fact is, Jerry Lewis would lie about as quick as Dom DeLuise would order a pizza. With everything on it.
What's really funny is that our boy Jerry in talking to Bob Costas takes the part of the offended one. ... Offended that Bing Crosby would *possibly* think that he'd act like the no-talent, obnoxious slug that he is.
Jerry Lewis just says the first thing that comes to his mind, and I imagine he's amazed that his "devoted fans" just lap it up.
Now that Dean is dead Jerry gets the chance to portray himself in the duo as the dear, dear friend of Dean. ("Oh, we were such pals!") Pleeze! Can you imagine poor, *talented* Dean having to put up with such a no-talent as Jerry Lewis for all the years they were together.
Running around the stage acting like a drooling spastic may appeal to people who, if they had a chance, would also sign up to be Moonies, but I doubt if "normal" people over the mental age of six can stand Jerry Lewis for more than 30 seconds.
Chris Cross Jerry seems to remember what Jerry wants to remember.
Mark Giardina Lewis always liked to take credit for everything like everything was his idea and it wasn't. Of course he was going to pull it off he was that big of an asshole. Dean hated him. So did all grown ups. Kids didn't know anything about him.
Ronnie...I was a life long fan since a little boy in the 60s. The truths about my comedic hero are saddening to say the least. Many times I stopped my kids from crying by mimicking him walking on my ankles. Just watched another video of him where he openly boasts of his hate for Joan Rivers who he says he never met and how he had mob friends that would happily beat her to death at his asking. He was on Joan's show in 1968! He blatantly lied yet again.
MrThumbsofThunder My wife as a kid was crazy about him too.
Smart move for Bing to walk away.
Jerry jumps on Hope and messes with his hair....NO doubt he would have pulled off Crosby's toupee and done something "funny." Jerry was always about Jerry....
Lewis was insane. Lord knows how many medications he must've been on.
He definitely had an addiction to pain pills.
Bob Hope had class & guts, and told Jerry right to his face how petty and obnoxious he was: "...& he was probably right."
You can leave “probably” out of it.
This is no surprise. Jerry Lewis had a feud or at least a nasty falling out with just about every celebrity he ever worked with.
Lewis was big in France from what I remember. Now I know why.
Jerry was a kid... he came on the show and did what had made him famous... that being said... he should have realized he was dealing with, not only the old guard, but the legendary old guard . There's certain people you just stand in awe of... Bing was one of those people.
Jerry became one of those people, but in this situation he disrespected a legend
Whatever. Why do you put these people on a pedestal. Their shit stank just as much as yours.
@@carlt8188 Because they did more than you have done, or will ever do. That means you're a douchebag and always will be
Yes, Bing was also not the hugging sappy type as well and I'm sure he didn't want a guy jump and hug on him in front of the public on live television in addition to his concern about the toupee which i think Lewis was low enough to have done it. Bing was in the right to be leery of Lewis
Huge disrespect by Lewis towards Crosby.
It's pretty clear from the footage that Lewis was indeed trying to remove Crosby's toupee, which is almost certainly why Crosby disappeared. And just as clear is that Hope had Lewis's number and wasn't afraid to call him out even on TV.
The essential problem with Jerry Lewis can be boiled down to a major human emotion called--- Jealousy. He thought he was a star on the level of Bing and Dean and Frank and everyone else. But he most definitely was NOT. His bizarre, juvenile, squawky voice and manic clown act was an identity that he could never escape. To the public, he was both Professor Sherman Kemp and the jerk playboy Buddy Love in real life.
Lewis was a narcissist.
Joe, you should check out the time Jerry was hosting a variety show (don't remember exactly which one) and he introduced his son who had a band Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary had a couple of hits on top 40 radio at that time. Jerry introduced his son like he was a no talent bum. Instead of being proud of his son, he spoke to him like trash.
No wonder The Rat Pack refused to let him into their club
It seems nothing is Lewis’s fault if you see his interviews. Every beef he had with anybody was always there fault. Loved him as a comedian but hated him as a person.
So, let me understand this: Jerry Lewis gets mad at Bing Crosby because Bing wouldn't stay on stage with Jerry to see if he would humiliate him? Am I reading this right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Lewis is not funny and very sophomoric. Bing did the right thing. Exit stage right!
Watch when he jumps on Crosby. He ABSOLUTELY tries to dislodge his toupee....twice.
Am I the only person who didn't find Jerry Lewis the least bit funny?
Jerry Lewis is a very irritating human being. He was generous to the poor, funny, great improbe, but never understood, there is a fine line between menace and celebration. Martin had had enough.
He screwed his first wife and 6 children when he died.
@@clarashoe9504 And I bet he's really happy about that. How she stayed married to him for 3 decades and 6 children is beyond me.
Lewis was annoying. Never understood why he was so popular.
Was obsessed with the spotlight, desperate for attention and couldn't stand anyone else getting it
Liked him in some of his movies,mainly with Dean. After awhile he just got on my nerves. Loved how Bob and Crosby got along. Jerry was more like the new kid on the block and was disrespectful to a established comedian. Still Crosby and Jerry were abusive men towards their families......demons recognizes other demons.
The abuse claims against Bing Crosby have long been debunked. Crosby was never abusive, neither to any of his children, nor his two wives.
This saddens me, like when I found out that Vivian Vance and William Frawley(Fred and Ethel from "I Love Lucy") hated each other. I'm 37, but I grew up loving Crosby and especially Lewis. I also have always loved the particular clip of them from this telethon and always wondered why Bing wouldn't come on stage.
Crosby was Martin's idol. B'H.
When you have to act that stupid (Lewis) in order to get a laugh or be funny, then your
really not. Why (Martin) stuck with him so long is surprising. Even though toward
the end of their partnership, Martin told him straight to his face, in his book, that he
was nothing more than a dollar sign to him. Makes good since to me.
That was a a nasty thing to do Jerry.
One of many many.
Now I know where Gilbert Gottfried stole his act from-Jerry Lewis
And Jim Carrey
Crosby and Hope had more class in their dirty socks then Lewis did in hi whole body.
Lewis was unfunny. He was irritating & talentless.
In the dictionary under Goofy Annoying Humor, there should be a picture of Lewis.
The French think Lewis is a genius...that says it all.
Two of the greatest comedy teams of all time and vastly different. Martin and Lewis were actually friends until they became really famous and Hope and Crosby only worked together.
the moral of the story is don't hold grudges? *huh?* how about the moral of the story is "do not allow others to behave badly toward you." how about "walk away from others who don't respect your boundaries, keep walking, and do not look back." how about "put distance between you and mean-spirited people." both of these guys were lousy parents. ya gotta wonder what kind of spouses they were.
So Lewis was a liar? He never talked to Crosby for not believing he wouldn't pull off his toupee but said he would?
Jerry Lewis had to have been hopped up on amphetamines that evening and probably most of his adult life.
Jerry Lewis...was never funny...he just made everyone uncomfortable because they did not know how to call 911 on him to get him charged with assault and battery......I would of loved to see him in an orange jumpsuit doing time..
Presumptuous of Lewis to expect Crosby to "understand" he wouldn't mess with his toupee, considering his antics as a brazen younger upstart. I'd have slipped away, too.
Jerry Lewis never made me laugh, even when I was a little kid I thought he was silly
I just read all of the comments -- I can't stop laughing out loud Damnit all!
Well, I was a Jerry Lewis fan, until I found out he excluded his real family from his will, and he was the true reason him and Martin broke up, very self centered and narcissistic! Good he helped the telethon raised all that money, but what's the results?? ...Peace.
Dean looked embarrassed.
He did. Just four more years of this, he was thinking.
The times made Martin and Lewis. WW II had just ended and the whole world needed to laugh again, at ANYTHING. That anything was Jerry Lewis. I wasn't around then, but as I watch some of his performances now I just don't get it; cringe worthy, all of it.
What were they fighting about
Who was better at abusing there family members
I have no idea about Jerry, but the abuse claims against Crosby have been successfully proven to be wrong by now.
Did Jerry get along with ANYONE? Including his own family?
Extremely talented, but Well,, nuff said
Both very mean family men
the abuse claims against Crosby have been successfully proven to be wrong by now.
Bing Crosby either should have called security or decked him cold...
Jerry held on to grudges. He was too sensitive about critics. I wish I could go back in time and yell at him “who cares??!!” Move on
Giant Moth lands on Hope at 1:43
demonic
You can see that Bob really is letting him know, "I don't like you" ,
Such a petty man never spoke to Crosby again, even though he admitted he would have pulled off his wig.
Funny he was interviewed by him lol Hope liked Lewis very much.
Allison Martino's IG post about her dad opening at Ciros Hollywood in 1952 and what Dean and Jerry did to him (tied him to a chair and went on instead of him) brought me here.
Jerry really was full of himself and saw himself as top dog. Seems that some of the only people that liked him were some of the kids he helped through his annual telethon.
Jerry Lewis was fine as long as his work was on film and had to pass through the hands of a skilled film editor. But live? Well, you know...
I set my playback speed to ‘normal’ but Jerry Lewis was still there. Go figure.
Jerry is just lucky that he wasn't one of Bing's kids, he'd have gotten a sack of oranges to the skull
They both, Crosby’s boys committed suicide on Christmas I believe.
This RUclips video can be slowed down where the sprocket icon is seen on the screen, where around the :56 mark you can catch a glimpse of Bob Hope looking very bent-out-of-shape with the antic that Lewis just pulled on him.
and the look from Dean Martin to Bob Hope appears like "you see what I have to put up with??!!"
Crosby not interested in playing up to his buffoonery and Lewis took the huff, like he always did, with everyone in his life.
I always loved Dean Martin!
Bing went home and beat his son after this.
lol
the abuse claims against Crosby have been successfully proven to be wrong by now.
Lewis is rude.
Glad Bing didn't have a bag of oranges with him...
Chalwa, "Oranges" = reference to THE GODFATHER? ;-)
Bing was right to bail
One of the best things that happened to this world is Jerry Lewis taking the endless dirt nap.
Jerry was a horse’s patoot.
I loved Dean Martin. Jerry not so much. He was just Silly, not funny
The French loved Jerry Lewis. They felt he was a comedy genius.
What about the moth that does into Bob Hope's jacket ?
I don't blame Bing for being "spooked". Jerry probably would have taken his toupee and then got offended that Bing got mad. What a narcissistic jerk.
I always watched Dean Martin's show when allowed to stay up þat late. He really became reclusive after his son Dean Paul was killed in a plane crash in 1987. I still admire his work.
As two abusive parents, they had so much in common.
Jerry Lewis, for people who find Gilbert Gottfried too reserved.
Typical Jerry Lewis Jewish Borscht Belt "Humor" . . . intimidate and browbeat the audience . . . Laugh or else!
Whether Lewis would have pulled Crosby's toupee off or not is beside the point. You can see he definitely manhandled his hair and it was all disheveled as a result. That could easily have been enough to expose his toupee to anyone close enough. I'm sure that's why Bing went off stage - to check that his hairpiece hadn't been partially dislodged and to make it presentable again. Whether Lewis would actually have ripped it completely off, the fact is he deliberately and very physically intimidated Bing with the prospect of being humiliated in front of a huge audience by having his hairpiece pulled off. It is commonplace now that Bing wore a piece, but many of his fans wouldn't have known that at the time.
I feel bad for Dean. He idolized Bing, and had to watch his partner humiliate him on live television.
Jerry Lewis had 5 sons. He did not leave a penny to his first wife or any of his Sons. His entire 50 million dollar estate went to his second wife and her daughter.
I will never understand to my dying day why Jerry Lewis was considered a comedian. A deeply unfunny performer and an even more deeply unpleasant man.
I love Jerry Lewis he was an enormous talent he was brilliant knew many people who worked with him. They all loved him and spoke highly of him. Crosby had a bad reputation. Beautiful voice I saw him interviewed by Barbara Walters he said that if his daughter lived with a man before she was married he would not speak to her since he was Catholic. Crosby had many affairs with women so I found it incredibly hypocritical. Jerry was a rising star Crosby was much much older and probably jealous.
He was never the great talent Jerry was.
This one is easy, can't stand either one!!
Bing Crosby was probably so angered and humiliated by Jerry's playful antics that the belt probably came off when he got home to his kids.
Is that why he was said to have been working on a tribute album to his father before he passed away?
Dennis and Lindsay both offed themselves over it
@@RockinEd It has been known for many years now that the reasons for the boys committing suicide had more to do with their investment money running out and their own life choices and very little if anything to do with their father.
By now, the claims of abuse against Bing have successfully been proven to be false.
Couldn't stand Jerry Lewis.
I just assumed Bing went backstage to beat his son, Gary!
Oh please, there is enough information out now to seriously question the validity of everything he wrote in that book.
Or the twins.
the abuse claims against Crosby have been successfully proven to be wrong by now. Please stop making such disrespectful jokes based on misinformation.
Oh no,,,pull off His Wig,that everyone knew he was wearing....lol.. C,Mon BING!!!!
2:40 !
FK BING!,,, AFRAID,,,GIMME A BREAK!! SO AFRAID OF SOMEONE ELSE GRABBING THE SPOT LIGHT...
HE WAS A COMEDIAN! Notice everyone loved it at the time it happened! Notice the pic of of him and Crosby! Celebrities knew how to keep people talking about them! People can be so sensitive. Thanks Jerry!!!!!!
Neither men were admirable.
If you refer to the abuse claims against Crosby with your comment- those against Bing Crosby have been successfully proven to be wrong by now. Crosby was an important figure in civil rights (look for example at all the things he did for Louis Armstrong or his friendships with such people like for example Anthony Quinn) and has sacrificed much of his personal happiness to WW2 work for the troops overseas. He helped so many people who desperately needed help. He built hospitals, orphanages, schools, churches, synagogues.... without "advertising" it. There is actually so much good he has done quietly without screaming around about the things that he did. He did it out of love and because of his heart. Not because he wanted his deeds to get recognition. To me, such selflessness is truly admirable.
Jerry was the funniest man alive in the early 50s.
Not!
For anyone under the age of 3.
For everyone else, he was just an annoying prick.
I remember this well: bing was afraid Jerry would pull his pants down in front of everyone. Unfortunately that day he’d decided not wear underpants because of the heat in the studio so it was out of the question to let Jerry expose him.
Lewis contradicts himself constantly
Both Bing and Jerry were horrible people at home and as human beings.