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Article: Jerry Lewis Roasted Again; An Abbot Amongst Friars!(The City)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2006
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Byline: Nicholas Boston
Jerry Lewis, 80 years old, was soaked with sweat. He sat at the center of a banquet table at the New York Hilton's Mercury Ballroom last Friday, May 9. It was the Friars Club's annual roast, and Mr. Lewis-this year's man on the spit-was also there to accept his appointment as the new abbot of the 102-year-old comedy club.
Seventy-two members and invited guests of the Friars Club lined the dais. Mr. Lewis was seated immediately to the left of the podium, Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese alongside him.
This was not Mr. Lewis' first time being roasted, said Stewie Stone. He had also been roasted in 1955, when the only ...