Bobbie Wygant (born Roberta Connolly; November 22, 1926) is an American television news reporter, film critic, talk show host, and interviewer who has worked for Fort Worth, Texas television station KXAS-TV (originally known as WBAP-TV) for over 70 years. She is known for her filmed interviews with celebrities.
When Bobbie begins doing her fake reactions at 15:40 and fake questions it totally reminds me of when Rupert Pupkin is doing his fake talk show in his Mother's basement. An amazing parallel. Wonderful interview, by the way.
Btw I’m not sure if you ever noticed, but Rupert’s mom is dead and he imagines her voice She was dead for 9 years before the movie ever began and Rupert jokes about it during his gig… he’s literally a Psycho like Norman Bates!!
Sure he wasnt the kindest guy at times, but geniuses of their field rarely are. He did more to help kids than most of us put together and by all accounts he mellowed a lot after his heart attack.
Jerry Lewis certainly did alot to help young disabled children. I respect him for that. However, there were many occasions when Jerry was mean and nasty to people Jerry saw it as joking around - he even said so - but many people interpreted his jokes as extremely mean and nasty and they voiced their concerns to him. I dont think Jerry realised that not everyone appreciated his crude style of jokes or crude off screen humour. His off screen humour was very different from his on screen humour. The ON SCREEN Jerry was the child friendly Jerry that we saw. But the OFF SCREEN Jerry was the adult content Jerry that only people like me who have worked in the industry saw firsthand. People need to learn to distinguish between the ON SCREEN Jerry and the OFF SCREEN Jerry - as they were not the same person. I met him several times in the late 1980's. He told us that he was just joking around with us. (The crew) Its just that other members of the crew did not always get the crude jokes - particularly his more "adult content" jokes. That was the OFF SCREEN Jerry that i worked with in the late 1980's. He was a great comic ON SCREEN - but OFF SCREEN some of his more sexually explicit jokes with the crew were shocking to us. Like i said, most people only saw the ON SCREEN Jerry who was child friendly. But i worked with the OFF SCREEN adult content Jerry that had a completely different style of humour from the ON SCREEN Jerry. It was very adult content in terms of the nature of the jokes. Our job as the crew is to shoot the scene after the background sets have been built and the wadrobe and make up artists have done their work and the lighting crew set up. It was inbetween shooting scenes that i met the REAL Jerry - and trust me - his style of humour was completely different to his child friendly movies.
@@shaunigothictv1003 And he had no regard for an illegitimate daughter he had. She’s still homeless as far as I know. She might not be alive though, have no idea. But he did those telethons. It doesn’t make sense except his ego was fired up in the telethons but the illegitimate daughter he probably thought reflected badly on him. So she was never cared for. She’s 100% his kid. She sounds just like him, oddly enough. He could have left her a trust fund. She got nothing.
@@angelwings7930 Agreed. Her name is Susan Lewis and the mainstream network TV program called Inside Edition did a story on her. Its on RU-vid. They even interviewed her aswell. His son Gary Lewis has also talked about bis Fathers dark side. That interview is so on RU-vid. Regarding the Telethons you make some good points. It is unknown why Jerry did the Telethons. Phil Donuhue asked him when he appeared on the mainstream network TV chat show - but Jerry refused to discuss it. If he really cared about disadvantaged children then he should have done a variety Telethons for other diseases aswell. Children are dying all the time from other diseases - not just muscular dystrophy. He claimed most of the money he raised went to research centres. So by his own admission, very little went to actual "on the ground" services for children with MS. As for Children suffering from other diseases, Jerry never gave a damn about them - if he did he would have helped them. Maybe he did those Telethons for his public image. We will never know. I worked with him in the late 1980's when he was on broadway. He was a Great comic, but he had a horrible personality off camera. He took his secrets to the grave with him. Most of the young generation of Kids today do not even know who he is. Maybe its better that way. He has faded out of the publics memory. There is no need to ressurect his image. We can watch his early films and laugh. Then we can forget about him and go about our daily business. Thanks for being honest about the way you feel. At least your NOT a sheep that blindly follows whatever you have been told.
No one can ever be as multi talented as Jerry Lewis. Singer, dancer, actor, director, writer and Hilarious. Dean Martin took Jerry to a level he may never have achieved on his own….but the reverse is doubly true. But regardless, they were magic together. But Jerry Lewis was the one you couldn’t take yr eyes off of.
Ànother or Jerrys contradictory remarks. The day the clown cries, he quite happily talks about it here and how there's a few problems that need resolving before he can go back and finish it. In later interviews he either refuses to talk about it when asked, or goes insane saying how bad it was and how he wished he'd never have had anything to do with it. Interesting interview of him, usually his anger comes out as he takes a stab at someone or gets overly defensive and goes into a rant. King of comedy was a pretty good film, Lewis pretty much plays himself and liked the film because it was fairly well regarded.
Interesting how the interviewer gets the opportunity to re ask her questions after the interview. Do the one’s being interviewed have the same opportunity.
I wonder how often they do that cause they make it look seamless? I’m kinda mind blown She finished her questions for the camera and went back to actually talking to Jerry. It’s pretty weird. I’m pretty sure the person being interviewed does the same thing so there’s less pressure on both people. It’s definitely based off preference cause I’ve seen plenty of supposed live one on one interviews
They only have one camera, and this is raw footage not the final edit. They film the star first then the interviewer reacting and asking questions and cut the footage later so it looks like a two cam production. You'll notice they adjust the zoom /composition for variety while the questions are being asked because they know they'll cut to the interviewer then. These days cameras are relatively cheaper / smaller so you'd just shoot it once with two or more cams.
She spent a lot of time talking about the heart problems. That was more of a Barbara Walters type approach. I was just waiting for Jerry to lose his patience as he was known to do if he found something to be ponderous.
