Jerry Lewis suffers mild heart attack

[Immortalfire]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060614/ap_en_ce/people_jerry_lewis

LAS VEGAS - Comedian Jerry Lewis postponed a July engagement to perform live after suffering a heart attack Sunday that a casino spokeswoman described as "mild."

"At present, he is under hospital care and is expected to make a full recovery," said Candi Cazau, spokeswoman for the Orleans hotel-casino in Las Vegas, where Lewis was to perform July 13-16.

Lewis, 80, is also suffering from "a touch of pneumonia," Cazau said in a statement.

A call to Lewis' manager, Claudia Marghilano, was not returned Tuesday.

Last week, a wise-cracking Lewis appeared healthy at a news conference in Las Vegas when he announced his first return to live performances in five years after a battle with pulmonary fibrosis, a crippling lung ailment.

He also appeared at a roasting as abbot of the Friars Club in New York on Friday, with fellow comedian Robert Klein and the Amazing Kreskin in attendance.

Lewis announced last week that he planned to direct a version of his hit 1963 comedy, "The Nutty Professor," as a musical on Broadway by October 2008.

Those plans have not changed, said executive producer Ned McLeod of The Michael Andrew Company, which bought the rights to develop the show in March.

 

[Erzengel]

He's 80, how can it be mild?

 

[Immortalfire]

He's 80, how can it be mild?

Because the spokesperson says so.

 

[Superman79]

OyVey! Pain in the glayvin!!!

 

[Edward Brock]

He's 80, how can it be mild?

Dude, it's Jerry Lewis.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

I just heard a collective "NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" come from France.....

 

[Edward Brock]

More like "Mais oh!!! NOOOOOOONNNNN!!!!", as they adjust their collective moustache.

 

[sinewave]

Speedy recovery, big guy! "Make with the sponge bath, nice nurse-type laaayyyydiiiiiiiiieeee!!!"

 

[terry78]

"A pain I got in my chest, with the stinging and the burning and the please nice intern don't steal my WALLET!"

 

[sinewave]

^ ha!


he's a national treasure, that man is.

 

[Lackey]

He should just die already

 

[sinewave]

He should just die already

i feel the same way about you.

 

[War Lord]

This seems like payback for all the pain he has caused us over the years.

 

[bored]

How can you say that about the man who inspired Professor Frink?

 

[Lackey]

i feel the same way about you.

but... I am dead

 

[War Lord]

How can you say that about the man who inspired Professor Frink?

One good piece, assuming it's good, cannot make up for the last 50 years.

 

[Illuminati]

Goodness garcious great balls of...



...Oops, I'm thinking of Jerry Lee Lewis.

 

[sinewave]

How can you say that about the man who inspired Professor Frink?

exactly. i was dead serious when i said he's a national treasure.

 

[War Lord]

^ ha!


he's a national treasure, that man is.

Than he should be buried.

 

[celldog]

 

[sinewave]

Than he should be buried.

that's not very nice.

 

[War Lord]

that's not very nice.

How's this then?

Jerrry Lewis ate my dog!!

 

[bored]

One good piece, assuming it's good, cannot make up for the last 50 years.

LIES!

 

[sinewave]

How's this then?

Jerrry Lewis ate my dog!!

silly, he's not into beastiality. at least not anymore.

 

[raybia]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060614/ap_en_ce/people_jerry_lewis

Just walk it off Jerry.