As part of his series "The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies from the U.S.," former Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum presents a screening of Jerry Lewis's The Ladies Man. Obviously, a survey of transgressive American comedies would be woefully incomplete without Jerry Lewis, which explains why he's represented twice in this survey: the aforementioned Ladies Man and Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, screening in November.…
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