Tag: stupid marketing campaigns
No, Stephen Colbert will not be celebrating pride with the corpse of Jerry Lewis
Every Pride month, journalists get tons of e-mails from marketers and PR flacks promoting various events. One e-mail received by journalists this week had the subject line, “Jerry Lewis Returns to New York & Celebrates Pride… tomorrow on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert!”
This was particularly surprising seeing as Lewis — a comedian best known for his 1963 film The Nutty Professor and his “Jerry’s Kids” telethon for muscular dystrophy — died in 2017 at the ripe old...