A reader who viewed the Muscular Dystrophy telethon this month asked if we’ve posted a You Tube of the young and nutty Jerry Lewis and the young and suave Dean Martin in our occasional posts on great comedians. We did.
And we offer you this clip, performed live on The Colgate Comedy Hour (I was too young to watch it so I’m also just discovering and studying this great comedy myself):
You can read more about Martin & Lewis as a comedy team here. You can get their DVDs here.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.