Talk:Lewis Grizzard

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Georgia on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Georgia (U.S. state)Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Template:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)Georgia (U.S. state) articles

Top

This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article lacks sufficient references and/or adequate inline citations.

WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Crooked Creek (Georgia), Ed Defore Sports Complex, Audery Mill Creek, More (Georgia)... More (U.S.)...
Assess : Rate articles from Unassessed Georgia (U.S. state) articles and Unknown-importance Georgia (U.S. state) articles.
Citing sources : Unreferenced Georgia (U.S. state) articles
Cleanup : Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category.
Geographical coordinates : more Georgia (U.S. state) articles missing geocoordinate data
Infobox : Georgia (U.S. state) articles without infoboxes
Map : Wikipedia requested maps in Georgia (U.S. state)
Photo : Wikipedia requested photographs in Georgia (U.S. state)
Stubs : Work on stubs in articles in Georgia (U.S. state) stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) radio station stubs, Georgia (U.S. state) road stubs and Georgia (U.S. state) geography stubs.
Other : *Deletion sorting: Please see the collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Georgia (U.S. state) - compiled by WikiProject Deletion sorting
- Help out with articles placed in Category:Georgia (U.S. state) articles needing attention
- Notability: Articles with notability concerns, listed at WikiProject Notability
- Tag the talk pages of Georgia (U.S. state)-related articles with the {{WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state)}} banner.
- Get Georgia (U.S. state) to a featured article quality standard

Biography: Arts and Entertainment / Sports and Games

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.
	Sports portal This article is supported by the sports and games work group.

Journalism

	Journalism portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Journalism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of journalism on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.JournalismWikipedia:WikiProject JournalismTemplate:WikiProject JournalismJournalism articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

It is requested that an image or photograph of Lewis Grizzard be included in this article to improve its quality. Please replace this template with a more specific media request template where possible.
The Free Image Search Tool or Openverse Creative Commons Search may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

Last Name

His last name does NOT rhyme with "Lizard", it's prounounced in the anglicized French way (but anglicized because the final "d" is spoken). He clarified this himself in his audiobooks.

Previous edit was by User:JohnRonald

Thanks. You can change it yourself if you like, or I can do it. DenisMoskowitz 14:37, 2005 Jun 13 (UTC)

"My last name is pronounced 'Grizz-ARD', a proud French name, it means 'wild stallion'. Some people have the audacity to pronounce it 'GRIZZ-erd'. That is French for 'sissy welfare recipient'." (from memory, his own discussion of the pronunciation of his name). Eauhomme (talk) 15:44, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Grizzard's characters

Were Lewis' characters (i.e. Weyman C. Wannamaker Jr., Cordie Mae Poovey, Kathy Sue Loudermilk) actually based on real people that he knew or may have known, or were they purely creations for the benefit of humorous narrative? I'm not 100% sure. --DXI 20:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Grizzard's characters - Wannamaker, Poovey, Loudermilk, etc. - were a combination of what you mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cr526 (talk • contribs) 04:31, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, that's what brought me to this talk page. I would love to see someone put together somewhere online a cast of characters for the people mentioned in his narratives, from the real people (his grandfather Bun Word, his mother, etc., to the ones we're not sure about ("Goat" Rainwater and family, the aforementioned Wannamaker, Poovey, and Loudermilk), to the ones listed in his jokes (Bubba & Earl, Little Joey). Eauhomme (talk) 15:39, 27 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Place of birth

Two published sources give his place of birth as Columbus, Georgia, so I changed the reference to his having been born at the adjacent army base, Fort Benning. Zariane (talk) 11:41, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Grizzard photo

The picture on the Wikipedia page is NOT Lewis Grizzard. It's a photo of actor Bill Oberst, who does a tribute show to the late journalist. 2600:1005:B189:F5EC:28F4:310:85B:58AE (talk) 18:44, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]