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Ben Silverman Is No Jerry Lewis

Midway through his interview at the Cannes Media Festival in, where else, France, Electus CEO Ben Silverman uttered a surprising non sequitur that seemed to go over the heads of locals: Jerry Lewis' name.

"I brought up Jerry," Silverman said during an interview with Yahoo's Ross Levinsohn, "because we are in France."

I guess they didn't get the joke, because nobody laughed, but I guffawed in the Cannes press room, which caused some local journos to look at me askance.

1 comment about "Ben Silverman Is No Jerry Lewis".
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  1. Jill Kennedy from Manka Bros., June 22, 2011 at 1:31 p.m.

    Why is anybody interviewing this guy? Reminder: Ben Silverman is not a visionary.

    http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2010/04/13/ben-silverman-is-not-a-visionary/

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