When it comes to the anti-gay slur, there’s perhaps no greater master than Jerry Lewis – the man is nothing short of a maestro.
Just over a year since Jerry Lewis last got into trouble for airing his uniquely fruity views on homosexuals during a live telethon, he’s done it again. This time, Jerry Lewis managed to offend all the gays in the world while in Australia, where he told a reporter that cricket is “a fag game.”
Obviously that’s a completely outrageous thing to say, and it’s obvious why so many people have reacted to Jerry Lewis’ comment with horror. By calling cricket a fag game, Jerry Lewis has displayed not only a casual intolerance of homosexuals but also a huge lack of education – cricket isn’t a fag game at all. It’s a crap game that only turds enjoy. Again, cricket is a crap game that only turds enjoy.
As the star and director of an unreleased movie about a German clown who lures Jewish children to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps, Jerry Lewis probably isn’t anyone’s go-to man when it comes to matters of taste. But even by his own standards, Jerry Lewis is having a rough couple of years.
It all started when, midway through the annual Jerry Lewis telethon, Lewis decided to refer to someone called Jesse The Illiterate Faggot, drawing the ire of the two or three people who actually happened to be watching it live. Jerry Lewis immediately issued an apology for the outburst and everything quickly went back to normal.
Except now he’s gone and done it again. In Australia, where he’s touring a show that we assume is called An Evening Of Faded Nostalgia And Uncomfortable Bitterness With Jerry Lewis, Lewis has kicked up a storm by blurting out a choice anti-gay slur about cricket. AP reports:
Following a news conference in Sydney Friday, Lewis, 82, was asked by a Network Ten national TV reporter for his opinion on the Australian nation sport of cricket. “Oh, cricket? It’s a f– game. What are you, nuts?” Lewis replied. The network broadcast the comment in full on its Friday evening news bulletin along with footage of Lewis handling an imaginary cricket bat with an effeminate gesture.
Inevitably, Jerry Lewis’ comments have been met with a wave of appalled responses all demanding an apology. True, most of them are from gay people offended to be associated with a sport as lumpen and dreary as cricket, but that’s beside the point.
Whether Jerry Lewis does issue an apology for this slur or not remains to be seen. Our gut feeling is that he won’t, since lobbing such an obviously offensive comment around seems to have been the best advert that his show will ever get.
In fact, if Jerry Lewis was smart, he’d adapt this tactic of offending the locals in every single new country he takes the show to. Maybe in Britain he could say that the Queen smells of penis, or in France that boules is only ever played by paedophiles.
One thing’s for sure, though, he’ll need to get in some serious training if he ever wants to tour Japan – we hear it’s deceptively hard to make your eyes go squinty while screaming “ME SO SOLLY!” without literally dying of shame these days.
Shooty* says
Dude should have stuck to “Great Balls Of Fire”.
gir says
Look, leave Jerry Lewis alone, right? If you’d come up in Hollywood with Dean Martin your only example of a straight man, chances are your ideas of sexual psychology would be a little skewed too.
Stabby McGee says
I’ve just spent a minute scanning through the comments to the ‘Illiterate Faggot’ thread.
…wow.
gir says
The Illiterate Faggot thread? Isn’t that pretty much every thread that JBollocks posts in?
*laugh track*
Richardhg says
Now come on! As a gay man, I have often poked fun at my “sisters”, and Jerry is just another American gay man making an inclusionary statement. To Jerry, “fag” is an endearment, and amongst this name he counts his dearest friends. If Jerry would just tell these reporters, “Girls, get over it!!” while holding a press conference in a nice twinset and high heels, not too much make up, he could probably make the point and come out of the closet at the same time.
Whatever says
1) Gay people are not good at sport??
2) ‘Fag’ is a ‘term of endearment’??? (Richard – look up stockholm syndrome!) Whatever you say poof.
3) The thug is 82. Seriously. Push him over.
4) They still cake their lips with a mysterious white goo in cricket. ..
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J Bollocks says
“The Illiterate Faggot thread? Isn’t that pretty much every thread that JBollocks posts in?
*laugh track*”
Ha ha ha!
Oh, i’m running off to sob into my pillow, boo hoo…
Frothy says
“They still cake their lips with a mysterious white goo in cricket.”
Well, that’s true. But it’s not that mysterious, just google Cricket lip goo and you’ll find the ingredients.
Mainly it involves the boiling down (rendering)of furry, and preferably endangered cute critters. So, you might get an armful of Baby Fur Seals, two Tasmanian Devil babys, and few cute Joeys (young kangaroos) and (if you’re lucky) some baby blue-whale blubber.
Boil it all up, chuck in a few endangered eagles and parrots later, then skim off the precious elixir of Cricket Lip Goo when it cools. Ahhh.. that’s living!
Whatever says
Ah.
You googled Cricket lip goo. But what about those poor dolphins? Always getting caught in the wrong fishnets when the whales are in season.
You are so helpful, may I call you Frothy (as I assume this is your first name)?
But why? Has nobody actully sat those lads down and explained that white is ssssoooooo last year? Or…does it have anything to do with the bright red/pink colour of lips attracting the ‘unwanted’ attention of female baboons and the messy (as we all know baboons aren’t exactly gentle lovers) situation of wearing all white?
Would you google ‘man/baboon Cricket love’ and ‘the affect of pink/red lips on baboons’ for me please Frothy? My dongle manufacturer will cut my internet off if I visit….alternative web sites.
So helpful.
!
Rememberthe70s says
wesley says
Jerry Lee Lewis , not jerry lewis , wrong lewis in reference to the great balls of fire comment dipshit