It happened again. I'm skipping around UA-cam looking for something to look at and am about to give it up and hit the patio with a drink...and I see something with Ali in it. He was a gem unto this world. The greatest not just as a fighter.
Now we can see that Jerry basically played himself in the King of comedy. Jerry had a bigger ego than Ali, but at least Ali had some charm to go with his. I am so glad he shut him up by pounding Liston - moments like this must have really added fuel to his fire.
I don't think you know who you're talking about here. Muhammad bullied Sonny Liston before their fight so much that Sonny brought a gun with blanks when he met Ali before the fight. That was the only way to shut Ali up.
@@JB-rl7yl Actually I was writing about Jerry Lewis not Liston. Good that he shut Lewis up because he clearly thought Ali was gonna be destroyed, as did a lot of so called experts.
At this point ( pre -- liston ) I really believe lewis thought cassius was really just a big bag of wind, but boy, did he have a lot of crow to eat afterwards, throughout the years !
Jerry was just saying what a huge percentage of people wanted to say at that point but didn't have the guts. Almost nobody believed Ali (Clay) would win, he was an 8 to 1 underdog in the fight and his "showmanship", as Jerry called it, just tended to piss a lot of people off at the time.
Hard not to have an ego when you were half of the biggest act in history and had just been offered the equivalent of a third of a billion dollars in today's money, to host a TV show. Nobody's ego resists that kind of stroking.
Edmond Dantez lets talk about all the money he lost when Dean Martin ditched him. Jerry was an extremely toxic person. That’s why if you look at examples in history of Jerry with successful people. They all move on past him. Look at Ali in this vs Jerry. Ali became a legend.
Yes. Jerry Lewis looked uncomfortable like when Magic Johnson tried his hand @ hosting a. Show & I. Admired. Magic Johnson basketball. CAREER & Triumphs in his life always pulls for the underdog if they are Humble & sincere
Johnny Carson credited the success of his Tonight Show as....... he always makes his guests look good. That was the formula for his success of the Johnny Carson show " make your guest look good ". Jerry Lewis took an exact opposite approach ( makes his guests look bad ) ~ and that is the formula for failure.
This is when Ali was the unsophisticated kid. just looking to the future. he was probably 21 years old with all the trials and tribulations yet to come. the Ali I fell for as my hero.
That's the dumbest thing I ever heard, Jerry wasn't racist and he was also Jewish, he also ran a charity for those with muscular dystrophy for over 40 yrs. You're the insecure racist!!
Tbh, to me, be just seems drugged up. The racism claim doesn't make sense because he's praising other black fighters. Just seemed like a dickhead to me.
kind of tough to justify that. He already had a ton of money, so all his expenses to perform in those telethons was all deductions on his taxes. Show me a video where he is actually giving his time outside of the telethons to charity.
It was mostly cancelled because the producers hired a stage and film comic to do a two hour live talk show. That's going to be an "insufferable bore" (but I think you meant boor) no matter who it is or how you cut it. Oh, that's right. You can't cut it, it's live.
It's also worth noting that Lewis' spots, guest hosting the "Tonight" show had been extremely successful and one of the reasons the networks were in a bidding war to give him a show like this.
@@MrMZaccone True, but Jerry was such an awful host that a guest as amazing as Ali was not enough to save this show from Jerry's awkward manner and response to every sentence that came out of Ali's mouth. I'm cringing just watching it!
@@jublicqohnp.61 I thought he actually challenged Ali (Clay at this point) much more than other interviews I've seen at the time. I found the interview interesting compared to most of the "yes man" bullshit from the same era.
@@MrMZaccone Fair point. If this was, say, the Dick Cavett show or Firing Line with William F. Buckley, I could see an audience wanting a more examining discussion. But this was a show much more similar to a Tonight Show format. The audience reaction (and lack of reaction at times, especially to Jerry) confirms this.
Hello friends. This is one of the most superb collaboration by Ernest and Alamanno.. two champions at their craft. Alamanno choice of picture visuals he used in my SAHARA are extremely well chosen with perfection over the superb playing of Ernest guitar that represents a very lamentful distant deserts .. My thanks to you both for this treasure in music. 🍷Maurice
You can see Ali can create a great chemistry with everybody...this was the same bond cosel-ali in the making only difference is that jerry didn't stay long enough to let it happen
Ali... the greatest sportsman that ever lived. The most famous person on Earth. A million miles above Lewis and Sinatra and Dean MArtin added together and trebled.l
You Tube has been great for a lot of show business people from yesteryear, but not ole Jerry. The more I see of him the more he seems like a total jerk. Absolutely full of himself and he actually makes my skin crawl.
No,no Gerry you are no where the greatest comedian of all times..I never found Lewis funny ...Jim Carey who had that animated comedy style was way way way more funny than Jerry's Lewis. Lewis looked terrified of Alli. Alli knew that the chemistry was bad between them and he just played with Lewis ... Time is the greatest litmus test. Alli was seen as a mouthy fluke at this point..They thought he would here today and gone tomorrow.. Every white guy with a Mike was telling Alli to 'shut your mouth, a minute ' By the mid 1970s , after he beat Foreman and Frazier..no-one was telling Alli to shut it.. If the interview occurred in 1975, Jerry's wouldn't be telling anyone to 'shut his mouth.. Jerry's would have shut his mouth and listened.. RIP GRANDE CHAMPION.
It's obvious to me that these two worked out their back and forth ahead of time. Yet most of these comments below demonstrate that the people watching this video are fooled all these years later. You can tell by the body language and eye contact between the two of them that they were just having a ball. If you read the comments it will tell you why marketing scams are so successful. So easy to make people believe what you want them to believe. And the performance that these two put in 50 years ago is still fooling people today. Amazing
Jerry Lewis hated doing talk shows! Make your positive or negative comments, say what you will about these 2 they are both entertaining and they both made us think over the years and they both deserve respect not everyone is going to love either of these guys but no one watch this can deny they are a success as for Muhammad Ali, he is in my opinion not a perfect man, but is regarded as one of the most respected and loved.
Muhammad and Jerry, two playful "shit disturbers", both have game and respect each other, Jerry was one strong willed tell it like it is guy and he ran into another just like that/him, a young Cassius/Muhammad...it sort of reminds me of a hot tempered and fly off of the rail's friend of my brother-in law, one time when we were going to work, in the car in the underground parking (he was the older of us), and he freaked/flew off the handle at me, like he was apt to do at times with people (temporary temper flare ups, but generally a great and gregarious guy and by the way, RIP to him...no, I had nothing to do with it!!!!!), and usually I'm really shy etc. and might have taken it, but with the good amount of pride/confidence in me, I started yelling right back at him, like an umpire and baseball manager, I didn't like the disrespect/attack and no matter what his reputation, I didn't take it, and he stopped yelling, looked at me after a few seconds, realized what was happening, that he wasn't going to "overthrow/power me", and just said...lets go!!! lol
You cannot put Johnny Carson and Jerry Lewis in the same book much less the same sentence. Carson was a gracious host and made his guests looks great. Lewis just blew his already inflated ego more.
Dougiewoolley 05 One of the many closet black racists. Get on to the British TV Michael Parkinson show or just google Ali racists remarks. Always disliked white people. Phoney muslim
Jerry Lewis called Mohammed Ali who probably became the greatest boxer of all time " a big bag of wind". That did not age that well. LOL Most likely Lewis loss a lot of money in the future by betting on Liston.
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There is no sportsman like Mohammed Ali, He is superlative sportsman with no simile. Rest in peace, God bless his family.
It happened again. I'm skipping around UA-cam looking for something to look at and am about to give it up and hit the patio with a drink...and I see something with Ali in it. He was a gem unto this world. The greatest not just as a fighter.
"Be cool, you are no fool...you went to school" #GreatestOfAllTimes
Now we can see that Jerry basically played himself in the King of comedy.
Jerry had a bigger ego than Ali, but at least Ali had some charm to go with his. I am so glad he shut him up by pounding Liston - moments like this must have really added fuel to his fire.
Ali could back his ego up, but Jerry outside of his scripted lines showed up like a hollow, pompous, self important bag of wind that he actually was.
I don't think you know who you're talking about here. Muhammad bullied Sonny Liston before their fight so much that Sonny brought a gun with blanks when he met Ali before the fight. That was the only way to shut Ali up.
@@JB-rl7yl Actually I was writing about Jerry Lewis not Liston. Good that he shut Lewis up because he clearly thought Ali was gonna be destroyed, as did a lot of so called experts.
He was the greatest!!! May his soul rest in perfect peace.
Both of them
Legends
Ali, a truly unique individual.
The greatest of all time
At this point ( pre -- liston ) I really believe lewis thought cassius was really just a big bag of wind, but boy, did he have a lot of crow to eat afterwards, throughout the years !
Ali handled the interview like the champ he was. Jerry's ego is cringey at best.
Jerry was just saying what a huge percentage of people wanted to say at that point but didn't have the guts. Almost nobody believed Ali (Clay) would win, he was an 8 to 1 underdog in the fight and his "showmanship", as Jerry called it, just tended to piss a lot of people off at the time.
Hard not to have an ego when you were half of the biggest act in history and had just been offered the equivalent of a third of a billion dollars in today's money, to host a TV show. Nobody's ego resists that kind of stroking.
Jerry Lewis was the greatest end of story.
jim stover Dean Martin was the greatest
Edmond Dantez lets talk about all the money he lost when Dean Martin ditched him. Jerry was an extremely toxic person. That’s why if you look at examples in history of Jerry with successful people. They all move on past him. Look at Ali in this vs Jerry. Ali became a legend.
exhibit A why Lewis never had a big time talk show!
Yes. Jerry Lewis looked uncomfortable like when Magic Johnson tried his hand @ hosting a. Show & I. Admired. Magic Johnson basketball. CAREER & Triumphs in his life always pulls for the underdog if they are Humble & sincere
Yep - he was truly awful.
Johnny Carson credited the success of his Tonight Show as....... he always makes his guests look good. That was the formula for his success of the Johnny Carson show " make your guest look good ".
Jerry Lewis took an exact opposite approach ( makes his guests look bad ) ~ and that is the formula for failure.
This is when Ali was the unsophisticated kid. just looking to the future. he was probably 21 years old with all the trials and tribulations yet to come. the Ali I fell for as my hero.
Ali was definitely the greatest.
" let me finish"......and Ali just smile😂😂
I never knew Jerry Lewis had a TV show I was born in 63
This interview reveals Mr. Lewis, one of my favorite comedians, as an arrogant, racist, I doubt he would have treated Rocky Marciano in this way..
That's the dumbest thing I ever heard, Jerry wasn't racist and he was also Jewish, he also ran a charity for those with muscular dystrophy for over 40 yrs. You're the insecure racist!!
Tbh, to me, be just seems drugged up. The racism claim doesn't make sense because he's praising other black fighters. Just seemed like a dickhead to me.
The idea of Jerry Lewis being a host is unsettling. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself.
And his charities. He raised a ton of money.
kind of tough to justify that. He already had a ton of money, so all his expenses to perform in those telethons was all deductions on his taxes. Show me a video where he is actually giving his time outside of the telethons to charity.
@@sherrodmacs3472 yeah and the ass was a horrible father who left his kids nothing. A real piece of work old Jerry was!
@@kevdean9967 I doubt you have a clue about his personal life, so give it a rest.
@@classicsurvivor Dude, what he did for those kids, he deserves any deduction he claimed. I'll leave it at that.
If he talks jive he'll fall in five
Float like a butterfly, sting like a fuckin' bee!!! Jerry PUTZ Lewis!!!
One of them was amongst the most talented at what they did, the other one I’ve never understood his popularity, about as talentless as one gets..
apollo played cassuis pretty well
Who’s watching this during quarantine 2020
his name is and forever will be Muhammed Ali
Lewis was an insufferable bore here. Good God.I can't imagine why his show was canceled.
It was mostly cancelled because the producers hired a stage and film comic to do a two hour live talk show. That's going to be an "insufferable bore" (but I think you meant boor) no matter who it is or how you cut it. Oh, that's right. You can't cut it, it's live.
It's also worth noting that Lewis' spots, guest hosting the "Tonight" show had been extremely successful and one of the reasons the networks were in a bidding war to give him a show like this.
@@MrMZaccone True, but Jerry was such an awful host that a guest as amazing as Ali was not enough to save this show from Jerry's awkward manner and response to every sentence that came out of Ali's mouth. I'm cringing just watching it!
@@jublicqohnp.61 I thought he actually challenged Ali (Clay at this point) much more than other interviews I've seen at the time. I found the interview interesting compared to most of the "yes man" bullshit from the same era.
@@MrMZaccone Fair point. If this was, say, the Dick Cavett show or Firing Line with William F. Buckley, I could see an audience wanting a more examining discussion. But this was a show much more similar to a Tonight Show format. The audience reaction (and lack of reaction at times, especially to Jerry) confirms this.
Jerry Lewis has been MIA after the ‘the big bag of wind’ beat Sunny Liston
Ali the best ever. Lewis was asking to be punched in the face during the entire interview. So disrespectful
1:43, you’re welcome
Hello friends. This is one of the most superb collaboration by Ernest and Alamanno.. two champions at their craft. Alamanno choice of picture visuals he used in my SAHARA are extremely well chosen
with perfection over the superb playing of Ernest guitar that represents a very lamentful distant deserts ..
My thanks to you both for this treasure in music.
🍷Maurice
Clay and Lewis...love em both!!
Come to the fight early, I might cut it from 8 to 1, 4:50 minute minute mark. Cassius Clay shows such class, Jerry Lewis, he's such an ass!!!!!!!
‘If you like to lose your money be a fool and bet on sonny’
You can see Ali can create a great chemistry with everybody...this was the same bond cosel-ali in the making only difference is that jerry didn't stay long enough to let it happen
Cossell was a professional talker and he knew how to milk a good thing.
Ali... the greatest sportsman that ever lived. The most famous person on Earth. A million miles above Lewis and Sinatra and Dean MArtin added together and trebled.l
Ehh I don’t know about Martin and Sinatra. Definitely Jerry tho
Miss you every day Ali.
I love Jerry Lee Lewis’s laugh. Jerry like to play. He spit water in merv griffin’s face.
Jerry is trying to oversmart
I wonder if Jerry lost money on the fight!!! lol
Yep you know he did that is why Ali laughing
Lewis tries to make out that Ali personality is fake. On the contrary it's Lewis who's fake.
Sweet man😍
Sarcasm at its best!
I want to know or hear Jerry's response to ALI DOING OF SUNNY
He not only hosting, instead he offersmore than that
"Bodyguards"
Muhamed Ali ❤️
But Ali was right and just like when Lewis lost to Dean, he was wrong.
8:36 🤔
Talla Diop he could have beat the mess out of him😷 this is so painful to watch for me
Banter
Baby Makaveli agreed
It's a testimony to the gentleman Ali was that he didn't beat the crap out of him at 8:51.
This is the wildest perspective ever
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Ali was great! Jerry Lewis was obnoxious and condescending.
ali owned jerry.. the only guy i ever seen upstage ali was minnesota fats..
Ali came down those steps to the table like he was ready to fight.
Poor Gilligan,never made it too far
Boxers just aren’t like Ali. That’s why he’s the greatest. The man was an artist.
Ah Jerry
Its just so easy to spot a Jew:) Its not the look, but the energy,the way they talk, smile etc.
😂
I’m watching in 2022
I miss Jerry Lewis, he must have been, "100" years old prior to his death. I didn't watch much TV, but that's one Jewish boy I did watch"@
Lewis seem to show some feminine characteristics during this interview. I suspect he was gay or bisexual
“Were you at the Olympics, Cassius?” 😒
Ali was and will always be The Greatest!
The high-class soon heavyweight champion of the world does not deign to stoop to spar with a welterweight.
change the name on the title
You Tube has been great for a lot of show business people from yesteryear, but not ole Jerry. The more I see of him the more he seems like a total jerk. Absolutely full of himself and he actually makes my skin crawl.
No,no Gerry you are no where the greatest comedian of all times..I never found Lewis funny ...Jim Carey who had that animated comedy style was way way way more funny than Jerry's Lewis.
Lewis looked terrified of Alli.
Alli knew that the chemistry was bad between them and he just played with Lewis ...
Time is the greatest litmus test.
Alli was seen as a mouthy fluke at this point..They thought he would here today and gone tomorrow..
Every white guy with a Mike was telling Alli to 'shut your mouth, a minute '
By the mid 1970s , after he beat Foreman and Frazier..no-one was telling Alli to shut it..
If the interview occurred in 1975, Jerry's wouldn't be telling anyone to 'shut his mouth..
Jerry's would have shut his mouth and listened..
RIP GRANDE CHAMPION.
"You talk to much." Yep.
It's obvious to me that these two worked out their back and forth ahead of time. Yet most of these comments below demonstrate that the people watching this video are fooled all these years later. You can tell by the body language and eye contact between the two of them that they were just having a ball. If you read the comments it will tell you why marketing scams are so successful. So easy to make people believe what you want them to believe. And the performance that these two put in 50 years ago is still fooling people today. Amazing
Jerry Lewis hated doing talk shows! Make your positive or negative comments, say what you will about these 2 they are both entertaining and they both made us think over the years and they both deserve respect not everyone is going to love either of these guys but no one watch this can deny they are a success as for Muhammad Ali, he is in my opinion not a perfect man, but is regarded as one of the most respected and loved.
6:26 This is true.
Cowards do not go to paradise!
This Lewis was he gay? This is out of context but he looks gay to me
You're not alone thinking this 😅
No respect to the greatest OF all time
7:02
Jerry was clearly being patronising and condescending. Muhammad ali held it down so well
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Jerry still damn handsome at age 45.
~ He always and forever be soooooooo likeable
more like a damn jackass 😂
Muhammed Ali was more than half his age here
Clay was an articulate, well mannered, fine-looking athlete... obviously before Elijah Muhammad poisoned his mind and Soul..
Jerry Lewis joked about D-Day less than 20 years after it happened, 9/11 jokes are good to go I guess.
look, I don’t care if Jerry slept with a teddy bear every night,Jerry is Jerry(luv him,or hate him!
They are both smart men I think neither is trying to make the other look bad I’m not sure why people want to keep bringing race into it
Muhammad and Jerry, two playful "shit disturbers", both have game and respect each other, Jerry was one strong willed tell it like it is guy and he ran into another just like that/him, a young Cassius/Muhammad...it sort of reminds me of a hot tempered and fly off of the rail's friend of my brother-in law, one time when we were going to work, in the car in the underground parking (he was the older of us), and he freaked/flew off the handle at me, like he was apt to do at times with people (temporary temper flare ups, but generally a great and gregarious guy and by the way, RIP to him...no, I had nothing to do with it!!!!!), and usually I'm really shy etc. and might have taken it, but with the good amount of pride/confidence in me, I started yelling right back at him, like an umpire and baseball manager, I didn't like the disrespect/attack and no matter what his reputation, I didn't take it, and he stopped yelling, looked at me after a few seconds, realized what was happening, that he wasn't going to "overthrow/power me", and just said...lets go!!! lol
MAYBE THIS INTERVIEW IS WHY CASSIUS BECAME A MUSLIM?
he and johnny carson were very disrespectful, and obnoxious . that "privilege thing".
mastermooky to compare Johnny Carson with Lewis is the biggest mistake on YT comment section ever
You cannot put Johnny Carson and Jerry Lewis in the same book much less the same sentence. Carson was a gracious host and made his guests looks great. Lewis just blew his already inflated ego more.
🎆Ali,is the greatest*⚡💥⚡❤❤
Ali best!!
Jerry Lewis was arrogant and cocky. High Off that liquor and pills..
Its wierd hearing someone calling him Cassius when it wasnt offensive.
True but this was all the way back in 64
I thought he didn't like the name cassious clay
He announced his name change the day after he beat Liston for the title.
Afriyie, he was still clay during the time of the interview, change it after the liston fight.
He was only 21 years old here, this was 1963/64
Lewis disrespected Ali in opening monologue, c'mon now. Lewis never recovered after uttering his 1st words.
Any respect for Lewis, gone in an instant. What a schlemiel.
21 vs 45
Can’t stand Lewis...he was carried by his Jew buddies...never thought he was funny...ego for sure
Glenn Evans Dean Martin carried his non funny ass in those movies back in the day.
@@maddtrucker830flager9 fucking rights he did!
jerry was soooo lucky he didn't get decked
Lewis's ego is little hurt here cuz he's not the most charming guy in the room poor little Jewish boy
Lewis is being so incredibly condescending and offensive, playing to his base. Ali is playing it off graciously.
Ali should have knicked his ass out.
Muhammad Ali had too much class to not slap him. Dudes a low key hater!
Exactly. I can clearly see that Ali could barely stop himseif from decking this jerk.
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A highly intelligent talking to an arrogant simpleton. 😵💫
How dare you name him Cassius clay. "It's a white man's name" 😂
Just think he’s just a race baiter. Ali always corrected everyone after he made the announcement.
Dougiewoolley 05
One of the many closet black racists. Get on to the British TV Michael Parkinson show or just google Ali racists remarks.
Always disliked white people. Phoney muslim
+Dino Carlucci And he went out with wonder woman once.
This was in 1964 before he changed his name d¥mb@ss
Jerry Lewis called Mohammed Ali who probably became the greatest boxer of all time " a big bag of wind". That did not age that well. LOL
Most likely Lewis loss a lot of money in the future by betting on Liston.