Ep 11 – THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED with Jeff Abraham & Burt Kearns

Ep 11 – THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED with Jeff Abraham & Burt Kearns

Author: Sasha Feiler and Joe Cabello September 17, 2019 Duration: 0:00

Jerry Lewis's unreleased Holocaust film THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED (1972) has often been described as a masterpiece of bad taste and a failed attempt at Oscar bait by Lewis. This week's guests, authors Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns (THE SHOW WON'T GO ON: THE MOST SHOCKING, BIZARRE, AND HISTORIC DEATHS OF PERFORMERS ONSTAGE) sit down with Sasha and Steven to passionately defend the Man himself and what remains perhaps the most notorious unreleased movie in Hollywood history.

How much of the film did Burt and Jeff (as well as Sasha and Steven) see, anyway? So... is it like, um, a comedy? And what's a "tati-tattoo"? Listen to find out.

JEFF ABRAHAM is a comedy historian and the go-to pop culture expert for television producers, documentary directors and authors.  As an entertainment publicist, he's represented comedy giants including Andrew Dice Clay, Steve Harvey, George Lopez, Bill Maher and, for the last eleven years of his life, George Carlin. He's also owner and curator of one of the world's largest comedy album archives, and is on the board of The National Comedy Center.

BURT KEARNS is a television and motion picture producer, director, writer, journalist -- and author of the controversial tabloid television memoir, Tabloid Baby. His credits include Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, Kardashian: The Man Who Saved OJ Simpson... and The Seventh Python. And with two-time Academy Award winner Albert S. Ruddy, he wrote and produced a Burt Reynolds film, Cloud 9.

Find out more about Jeff and Burt's book THE SHOW WON'T GO ON here: https://theshowwontgoon.com


Sasha Feiler and Joe Cabello have been making each other laugh since they first met waiting for an improv show, a friendship forged in the crucible of wildly inappropriate comedy. Their shared history-a blur of pets and increasingly bizarre private references-is the foundation for Shut Up I Love It, a podcast that feels like crashing the best, most rambling conversation after the main event. Each episode builds from an interview with a guest, but it rarely stays on any prescribed rails for long. What you’ll hear is the natural, often hilarious detour that happens when two sharp-witted friends with deep improv roots start riffing, pulling the discussion toward personal obsessions, unexpected tangents, and genuine curiosity. The show digs into the stuff they love, from film and television to broader cultural oddities, filtered through a lens of comedic review and spontaneous creation. It’s less a formal interview and more a collaborative, chaotic exploration, where the guest becomes a co-conspirator in the fun. Listening to this podcast means getting a front-row seat to the kind of authentic, meandering, and deeply funny talk that only happens between people who have known each other for ages, where an inside joke is never more than a few sentences away and enthusiasm is the only required currency.
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