A Most Important Date In Comedy History ... August 1, 1966

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Merv Griffin introduces

Our Little Richie Pryor

who does a stunning

jazz mime

with an unseen orchestra
 

Richard sits at the desk

with Merv, alongside

the Everly Brothers

And then Richard gets to meet

the man he calls

The God of Comedy

Jerry Lewis proves

that title is,

at best,

a very slight exaggeration

Richard Pryor
tells a great story
about how his father
introduced him
to the wacky world
of Jerry Lewis

When a hot babe
named Dagmar
sits next to Richard,
he needs water
to cool himself off 

And becomes the focal point
of the Water Follies
  
Then the stage becomes
a geyser of gargantuan
slapstick

 Wet and wonderful
insanity ensues
but feel free
to disagree
after watching
at least
the first fifteen
and the last twelve
minutes
of this video

 

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Footnotes
You can go gaga with your google-search
as a result of this page but
there were statements made

challenging the deification

of Jerry Lewis

—Many years after  August 1, 1966—
Johnny Carson repeatedly said
Richard Pryor is the
funniest man
in America

Such statements were,
at best,
a very slight exaggeration 
 

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