McNeil is
teaching a class about the 1980s, research for which led him to the happy reminder that the Beastie Boys mention
Jerry Lewis by name in their song
"Hold It Now Hit It." I was happy to remind McNeil in turn that the Beastie Boys number
"Hey Ladies" takes its name - and the particular delivery of its refrain - from Jerry's well-known if slightly apocryphal catch phrase, or what
Manohla Dargis calls "his trademark cri de comedy" and which she traces to its roots in
THE STOOGE.