Tag Archives: Dean Martin

In Defence of Jerry Lewis

Martin and Lewis were the hottest male comedy double-act of all time — who make today’s ‘bromance’ look like bromide. By Mark Simpson (Originally appeared in Out, May 2009 — but has fallen off their website) Forget hair whorls, genomes, amniotic fluid, older brothers, domineering mothers or disco. I can reveal with absolute, religio-scientific certainty …

August 5, 2011 – 11:14 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, comedy, commentary, journalism, television | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Lewis and Martin’s 50’s Love Makes Today’s Bromance Look Like Bromide

This month’s Outfeatures a column by yours truly, called ‘In Defense of Jerry Lewis’, explaining how my childhood love for early Lewis made me the man I am today — and why his anarchic comedy partnership with Dean Martin in the ‘repressed’ 1950s was a kind of queer punk rock before even rock and roll …

May 8, 2009 – 10:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in article, comedy, journalism, television | Tagged , , , | Comments (26)

Wouldn’t You Just Die?

Thanks to my Canadian friend Elise for forwarding this gem: A (late 1960s?) TV skit starring Jimmy Stewart, Dean Martin and Orson Welles, no less, at the hair salon — making mock of feminine vanities. The jokes then of course depended on the absurd gender reversal/confusion of three chaps taking such trouble over their appearance. …

March 6, 2009 – 3:53 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)