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.