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there are three things that are

real God human Folly and

laughter since the first two are beyond

our comprehension we must do the best we

can with the Third

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here is our star

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who Jerry

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Lewis he's cute fast he's not scared

he's dear he's sweet he's what he's

sweet but the big question Still

Remains who who is Jerry Lewis

a wow I wish I could tackle a less

complicated

question is he the poor neurotic kid

from nework New Jersey who can't face

the public is he the accomplished

Superstar is he this gifted film

director who is the real Jerry

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Lewis when I'm near you I was the class

clown I had teachers that were going

crazy I was a

troublemaker make people laugh I do

anything you breathe up

flame it was

fun when we're dancing Mr Lewis you are

a complete nut

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well roll it

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the

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w

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I was

five that's never changed I've always

been five

the best age for a

kid I was born in

1926 Newark New

Jersey Jer what was your real name it is

now it wasn't when I was born I was born

Joseph levich L vit T

C and I have some other bits of

information that'll choke you

up I'm sure you're not about to come

back with why did you change it

when

Chand on the heads of

the my father may think it's an

earthquake good looking man

know Wonderful singer great Entertainer

and funny man

funny his father was a singer and a

comic who was very much influenced by Al

Jolson and his mother played piano and

would often accompany uh Dan Danny Lewis

on on his tours his parents came from

Eastern Europe fleeing the kind of

persecutions they were Jewish and they

were both show business people as well

um so in some ways with Jerry Show

Business was in the blood um one

unfortunate consequence of his parents

being entertainers was they were away

from home quite a lot so he grew up as

kind of like the only child of the

family but a very lonely child as well

without siblings around without kind of

Parental kind of contact all the time

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one time when his father was performing

his father motioned to him to come out

come out Joey why don't you sing for

these folks sing brother can you spare a

dime now Jerry's 5 years old so he walks

out all proud and he slips now his foot

hits a foot lamp it

explodes he gets his first laugh he

knows already what he wants to be

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then you fast forward and Jerry's 15

years of age devises his own act he

calls it a record act and he would have

a record player playing behind him and

he would mime to whatever the record was

doing be it a piece of Caruso a female

opera singer Etc it was

hilarious for no one else can

end this year

this need that you and you

alone

create he was a very anxious child but

he could overcome his anxiety by not

having to use his own voice so he could

purely focus on his body and his face

and the voices were supplied by others

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Heart

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Dream

Inspire with every sweet

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I went through

school and started as a

writer and I wrote things for

Comedians and when they didn't do it

like I wrote

it I did

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it is

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Danny Lewis was almost resentful to

Jerry's career Jerry Jerry's career

progressed more in one year than Danny's

did in 25 30

years Jerry lwis was a household name in

1946 you know how would you feel as a

dad here he is Jerry L

thank you very much good

evening his father had an agent Irving K

who encouraged Jerry to become a

performer and Danny was so upset he

fired Irving at that point Jerry hired

Irving and Irving became Jerry's manager

for the next several decades nice is to

see all you nice people I didn't hear

you man' my father went up the river

with a sack of cats but I would like to

say I'm only kidding it like the way a

lady yells out all of a sudden we have a

two AET of Road company

now see it in your smile I hear it in

your side that we have found a feeling

higher than high my own then I met him

only what a good day that

was

my I was at a bar in Las Vegas and there

was a drunk at the bar was giving me

problems Hey Dean walked over and

punched him in the

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mouth you all right kid yeah you

sure he never touched

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me W Wheels strolling down the trail one

day with my do at my side got my G in my

big hat and

Jerry was an only child danan was a

brother he never had he got to be cheeky

he got to look up to somebody who's this

incredible handsome man that's the guy I

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need 2 and 1 half hours unrehearsed

that audience went nuts that was the

birth of Dean and

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Jerry Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

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Jo The gogate Comedy Hour

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everybody knows you love

me what you mean to me you abuse me and

Contin SLA me in just how long do you

think I could stand

it well the concept for the Martin Lewis

performance is basically handsome man in

his monkey or the Playboy in the puts it

was about two guys who were very very

different who come together Martin

represented sex um Jerry Lewis

represented slapstick and we're going to

be pal right

I would think so

dead and Lewis was basically the

architect of the ACT he never wrote a

lengthy script but he on a on a kind of

sandwich bag he just scribbled a few

notes about okay we have these two guys

doing this and they do that and um so

you have a basic structure which he

describes as blueprints I'm

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in I think Jerry saw in Dean everything

he wasn't and vice versa Dean saw in

himself everything he wasn't through

Jerry and they fulfilled something in

each other you're going to sing the same

song stay right there I don't want yes

you're going if I can make

it I'm happy

again Jerry made Dean cackle and laugh

so hard through his physical comedy but

then Dean was such a wit that that made

Jerry laugh and I think that's what

bonds anybody and any partnership

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he made my

life I was hoping to be a success and he

made sure I

was we had so much fun we had such a

good

time and we say to one another and

they're paying us for that listen we

want to thank you we want we now invite

you to

swim you been wonderful brush your teeth

with Halo

Halo then were rock and roll they were

rock and roll before rock and roll they

were sexy they were the missing link

between Frank sin arre and the

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Beatles without each we would

be well as long as we're together pal

all things were weather pal will when

turns

to who

on your lips with your mug and

qu we'll both

get I the projectionist turn off the

film stop the

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music during the war men had actually

spent a lot of time in one another's

company they' been away from women they

relied upon one another for emotional

sustenance for friendship for safety and

I think Martin L has become a way of

carrying over into the postwar period

the male bonding that had been so

intense during the World War II years

excuse me how about drink please

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everybody needs to

care for somebody

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all your dreams Were Meant to

share with

somebody danan and Jerry broke up they

broke up because other outside

influencers got involved that shouldn't

have it was none of their business in

the likes of oh Dean you don't need that

kid oh Jerry you're better off without

him Dean you can make more money without

this kid after a while that starts to

become your own your own thought process

almost

they did the last film in 1956 they

didn't even speak on the set throughout

that whole production I don't think the

audience even today ever got over that

that was the wor worst divorce in sh's

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history after the split Jerry appeared

in a series of formula comedies they

were formulas like they had been in the

Martin Lewis days pretty much put

putting him in a situation and just

letting him run

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Riot one of the most important

relationships that develops in this

period is the relationship he has with

the uh film director Frank

tashlin by the time he he's actually a

solo performer he wants to know more and

more about how to make movies and

tashlin is a great mentor he sees

tashlin as a great meton sen but also as

a great director of comedy and he learns

a lot from tashlin and tashlin takes the

time to tell Jerry how to do it

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a

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the day I walked on a motion picture set

the first day I knew I wanted to learn

everything and when they wanted me for

seene I was in the wardrobe department

or the camera department or the makeup

Department

the technical department the miniature

department they could never get me on

the set I was learning I was all over

the

yard and I knew that's what I wanted to

do the rest of my

life I was 34 when I directed my first

film the bell boy

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on January the 28th I began writing a

screenplay which I completed 8 Days

Later 170 page

screenplay I sent for a crew of 150

people from Hollywood and I was shooting

the bell boy in under two weeks from the

time that I told him my given product I

closed there after 28 weeks 28 days of

shooting I opened in Las Vegas cut the

picture in Las Vegas during the

day and the picture made over 7

million if you think you're getting a

tip you're crazy I'm using my case money

to buy a ticket to see a bell boy cuz I

hear it's

funny and it's got a series of silly

sequences and I like silly sequences and

Jerry Lewis is starring in it that's

right big JL himself the tall nut

now get out of

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here you

Tobe I think one of the reasons why he

chooses to make this particular film is

he wants to demonstrate where his

allegiances lie he's honoring his Heroes

chaplain Katon Stan Laurel but also

trying to kind of move away from the

kind of formula comedies that he made

often with Martin this is pure

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comedy Jerry really wanted Stan Laurel

to be in a film with him that was his

dream and Stan agreed to be in this

movie and just before they went into

production he fell quite ill and pulled

out so if you watch the film today

there's a Stan Laurel impersonator in

the movie doing all the scenes that Stan

should have done they became very close

he almost mentored Jerry in Jerry's

earlier

career he used to say something to me

when you go out in front of an audience

tell them you're going to do something

then do it then tell them it's been

done he was the genius behind Laur and

Hardy they had a real love in they loved

to one another they were great

friends just like Dean and I were

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ificity extraordin

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I lived with Charlie in Switzerland for

two weeks there his

home

incredible for two weeks we were arguing

about what was funny and what was not f

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chaplain was the one that was embraced

and any comedian who came afterwards who

wrote and directed his own films

suffered by comparison so when Jerry

came along Jerry Lewis of all people the

loud crazy kid from The Martin Lewis

films decided he wanted to be a

filmmaker well I think that's a lot of

the backlash because they thought who

does this guy think he is

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chaplain he also makes a guest

appearance in the film as Jerry Lewis

the famous movie star this is one of the

first of many um films in which Jerry

Lewis is self-reflexively dealing with

the phenomenon of being Jerry Lewis in

the films stop with the brushing let me

have another cigarette please I'll smoke

it dry I'll smoke it dry yes sir Mr

Lewis we're all quite excited about your

appearance at the F

blue Lewis once he actually starts

directing films wants his name on the

movie it's very important the film says

written produced directed by Jerry Lewis

he's stamping the film with his own

marker with his own

signature but in the credits he he

credits the character of Jerry Lewis to

Jo of

Lage so we're working on a few levels

here Jerry Lewis is is not actually a

person Jerry Lewis is a is an act is a

is a performance by whoever Joseph

levich is the mighty

director fine can't you see I'm

creative oh it's you Mr bird it's a

pleasure to have you on the

set any director that I've ever dealt

with and those that ask me about my

direction of a film film I think we all

concur that you have to have a direction

as the Director who is the key factor in

the film creation you have to have a

direction now in the beginning you're

given uh the opportunity to start in

creating the comic sequences without a

form without a pattern or a direction

because people want to see where you go

but once they have established the fact

with you that they are satisfied that

you're capable they now want to see

growth and they want to see a formula

and a pattern established or they won't

accept it because without pattern and

without

form in film making then you could

always be referred to as a

novice and people will resent

that I'm going to

work all right places please all right

let's hear for the movie

star hey stupid

Hollywood's biggest most elaborate most

expensive Studio stage set of all time

is constructed before your eyes and only

one thing is missing to complete it all

the super nut and here he

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is it's got incredible kind of um Mison

in this movie he's constructed this huge

doll's house set and the camera cranes

up and down around this set and

constructs the film through this very

artificial a use of high resource kind

of Technology if you like and the wellam

melon house where the film is set

becomes a metaphor for the artifice of

Hollywood and although he's not actually

influenced by the French critics like

God arre for this time he's doing

something very very similar he wants to

use film as a way of shaping a

perspective on the world and uh at the

same time his films have being marketed

to to juveniles there they're children's

films so when he makes a film like The

Ladies Man which is basically an art

film it's you know critics are in

America are confounded my God what's he

doing here why isn't he just being funny

you felt you had to have a crane you had

to have practically everything that

Hollywood could give you and you feel

and more and you feel it you feel that

you need everything there is absolutely

I don't think anyone is good enough to

work within four walls and to work with

Antiquated equipment our business is

technology you've even invented a system

of shooting yeah well in order for me to

direct and in two places I had to devise

an electronic concept alongside of my

camera so that I could see what I was

doing and see the actors on monitors on

television monitors there wasn't anyone

out there I would trust to say it was

okay Etc it's my ball and bat that's all

and you're also able to judge yourself I

mean where you've gone wrong yourself

absolutely I've seen many many

situations where I wasn't happy with the

comedian and I had to get him to do it

again and and if you think it's easy

talking to me you're

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crazy Jerry Lewis was certainly a rebel

but he was sometimes a rebel in spite of

his own maybe desire to be I think it

has a lot to do with class too people

don't often talk about that but you know

a poor boy who becomes a rich boy and

how you're supposed to behave and

relationship to all of that and one of

his

autobiographical books he talks about

you know soon after he made it big in

Hollywood driving down in his

convertible down Hollywood Boulevard or

something just blasting his horn as loud

as possible just to show how important

he was you know it's like a kind of you

know something that you could say is

offensive but it's exactly what somebody

who is powerless and has no money and

then becomes rich is tempted to do

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he's more a painter maybe than a

director hi

honey he's working with

space he's not tracking like all those

so-called modern Movie Maker and making

fancy for the camera he's just interest

interested in framing he's a a very good

frer like great painters he has a lot of

sense of

geometry to be a comic you have to be

very capable in

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Geometry it's difficult to make a good

picture yeah and he knows and I think he

he should be supported and I'm one of

his a

supporter uh but most people don't go to

movies to see Framing and um technical

they want to laugh or be entertained but

they receive picture through

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that boy what imagination can do for

you do you also find him funny very very

very if not no I think it's very funny

even when it's not funny it's more funny

because it's not funny

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premier prier

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Ben good friend the French want everyone

to think that they discovered me and

that's okay they don't do that in Italy

they don't do that in Germany anywhere

in the world but the French Jerry is

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mine I am happy to see

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you the key Champion the Jerry in France

of course is Rober benayun who was

fascinated by comedy in general by

American Comedy the marks Brothers I

think WC Fields um he was somebody who

who who saw Artistry in this form form

of Comedy that could transcend reality

in the world we have 10,000 men who can

do

Hamlet what a rogue and peasant slave am

I but we only have this men that can

go not only because it is

difficult but because it carries a heavy

responsibility

and the 10,000 actors that do Hamlet

don't have to check in with

Shakespeare but we have to check with

them they are our

responsibility Shakespeare didn't even

show up

today where he is I don't know

I use pred

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fore

calm when you see someone having an

epileptic

fit a little part of your person is

somehow sees that as a mirror a mirror

of something hidden far inside um and I

think that the the French Spectators are

more comfortable with pathology it's

true that in the the 1900s deformity was

the thing that made the public laugh the

most

I won't translate that because I was

telling that you're a terribly good

director and a fantastic French in a

sense gave us American Cinema the

postwar critics in France they hadn't

seen any American films during the um

German occupation and then all those

films fluttered into the country at once

and their appreciation of of the films

allowed us to see our pictures in a

different light but in Jerry Lewis's

case I mean the idea that the French

revered him became a joke in and of

itself and nowadays the people who are

keeping the joke alive know really

nothing about Jerry Lewis and

particularly his films and of course

there's also the fact that he's in terms

of our culture considered a mere

comedian American society is by you

examined very deeply I don't know if

you're aware of it How Deeply it is and

you also question it as you would any

society in which you live I try to knock

down people who

have no longer allowed themselves to be

just

people you cannot make

fun of throwing a snowball at a man in a

felt

hat but you can make fun of when you

throw the snowball at a black top hat

the why of it is because the black top

hat is the man at the

bank a

diplomat a

politician or the man who owns the

funeral par

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both the Aaron boy and the psy are

similar in the sense that they're

Jerry's resp response to his lack of

critical acceptance and to a degree the

way he was treated by the Hollywood

bigwigs meaning that they just didn't

understand why he wasn't content to turn

out the same product or why he wasn't uh

falling in line why he had to be an

individual

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I know I

know there are

questions that don't get answered there

but is the audience time to think about

it which is good if you get your

audience thinking you got half of the

job done oh okay let me let me start

over

again they just didn't understand why he

wasn't content to turn up the same

product or why he wasn't uh falling in

line why he had to be an individual and

tellingly he did not change his path

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do you realize that that that that screw

loose imitation of a human being has

disrupted this studio beyond

control it'll way it's like a a planned

culture in America but the culture it's

a culture that's planned by the studios

not by critics not by the government not

by you know it's in fact you can almost

say the studios are the government

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you have to remember that in the United

States in the 1950s and 60s the model

the male model Jimmy Stewart of course

comes to mind but Jerry Lewis's

character somehow evokes for that

audience the same audience evokes uh a

problematic male figure to say the least

a male figure that is uh is totally

unpredictable for one thing can go off

on an irrational tangent is not in

control he's a dangerous figure for the

American ideal of the proper way to

behave are there any requests yeah get

off I app thank you

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as a child you have no filter and you

don't know the rules of life or to be

human so you are much more open to

exploring and as you grow older you

become self-aware and want to fit in and

T you're taught to not be as extroverted

that's not as accepted but then when

you're in society and you go wait a

minute I loved being a kid and I loved

doing that and you don't lose that I

think Jerry's never lost that and I

think it's important for any performer

to never lose that kind of freedom to

just kind of say you know F you I'm

going to be out and open and and a ball

of energy and if anybody has a problem

with it it's your problem it's not mine

how old are

you six six years six me too

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one of the things that seems to me there

the most profound thing that happened in

his life was that his parents failed to

turn up for his b Mitzvah when he was

13 it seems to me this explains an awful

lot about Jerry Lewis's character

because when you're that

neglected you could never get enough

attention no matter how much attention

you get later in life it'll never be

enough Jerry Lewis has said that it's an

audience is like uh a

thousand masers and poppers patting you

on the head and saying good boy so that

validation that endorsement that maybe

was absent because the parents were

absent is provided by an audience and

maybe that accounts for the hunger and

that the need to perform

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go deep

your clo with l

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if

you

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love no s

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I think there's something with Jerry

Lewis that might explain his

International profile he's somebody who

plays a little guy who's hard done by

who has to win through by Val virtues of

the heart and also through his efforts

greater ACC claim and acceptance I don't

think he necessarily represents the

American dream although he is a very

successful figure I think exposes

problems within the American dream and

problems within American social values

in in many of his films

I think in a very profound way Jerry

Lewis is America that's what's so

fascinating about him and Americans

don't like to see themselves in the

mirror when they look like Jerry Lewis

so the real interesting phenomena is not

Americans hate Jerry Lewis but that they

love Jerry Lewis and don't want to admit

it I'm just a human being with all of

the foibles and all of the traps the

show the pressure the groupies the

autograph HS the crew the incompetence

Those Behind the Scenes you think of

your friends and you're not too sure if

you're going to be there tomorrow

because of their incompetence their

wonderful pressures that make every day

a glowing radiant day in your life it's

terrific okay if all of that means

nothing if I'm wrong in spite of all of

that then I apologize I'm sorry

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in 1983 there's a very interesting turn

in ls's career he he appears in the

Martin scores film the king of comedy

playing a role that's very unlike the

Jerry of old he's a talk show host he's

very sober very Stern very joyless in

this film he's playing it's a very

astonishing performance but the critics

responded to this film as if they've

never seen Jerry leis act before so it's

almost like the critics don't really

have a framework for valuing for

understanding comic performance at all

it's only when Lewis becomes a serious

actor that somehow he's seen to be cred

a Jerry I love this guy always coming up

with these great lines I love him I love

him I know he's a great actor I worked

with him in King

comedy

uh he played it pretty straight strong

uh up to a point too I mean he'll look

at me at one point say I can't do

anymore this this take said it doesn't

matter you got it you know six seven

times or whatever uh I think you can see

this though in a lot of the pictures

with Dean Martin the stooge maybe the

bell boy The Ladies Man which is is

visually one of the greatest I think uh

but I you can obviously it's so obvious

in the in the Nutty Professor I mean the

Julius kelp characters are grotesque

it's like a gargoyle that's come to life

it's frightening and funny um but the

change to Buddy Love is the real

scare that's where you see the acting

that tilt that tilt up when you see who

it is from his shoes to the silk suit

and he's this he's buddy love and

this is a great

performance

professor professor since I was probably

five I thought about one day I'm going

to perform in a great classic professor

and then I found

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it Jacqueline

Hyde hey that was terrific hey did you

hear that folks a regular George B not

Shaw good boy and he did it all by

himself you did it all by yourself and

nobody helped you that's terrific and

with your very own Big Mouth now if you

don't want this cocktail shaker to

become a part of your gums mix the

drinks shut your mouth and pay attention

is that clear repeat after me I'll I'll

I'll pay I'll I'll pay attention I'll

pay attention all right let's continue I

don't think it's a matter of proving

your skills in drama maybe that's true

of comic actors but that's not Jerry I I

think I think he's a visual artist a

visual artist like chaplain and Keaton

and he's got his own physical instrument

as an actor would call it as a key

element in the creation of his art so in

a sense he was virtually alone in his

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time I don't know how many years of

articles there has to be written of sad

clowns I mean every person who's in The

Comedy business has a very serious side

and I I love it when people are shocked

to learn that it's like how many stories

you have to read before you

realize yeah comedy comes from Pain any

comedy comes from Pain um and so and

that pain is real and the pain is also

another side to be explored as an

artist when I looked at Jerry

Lewis

him I know him I know what he can do I

therefore try to steer his characters

and his Personalities in the areas where

he is most

comfortable for he is a

strange

unique

neurotic strange unique

neurotic as soon as I find out what you

see most people look at

that and think that that is total

makeup well now I'll tell you something

that I have never told anyone this is

makeup that's

clean CU if you look at that he won't

hurt

anybody and he is who I think of all the

time no more

makeup no more gas ly one

nighters no more squealing

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brats it raises the Enigma of identity

to an interesting level you know we can

watch jeros exploring who Jal leis is

across from film to film and across

various different media articulations he

and I think he remains an enigma just as

when you think you've identified who

jedo is he does something else that

challenges that presupposition

when you

walk through a

storm keep your

chin up

high and

Don't Be

Afraid of the

Dark by the early 1970s Jerry became

less active in film making a good part

of that reasons was because he became

more involved with the annual MDA ton

which was taking up more of his time and

his tension but also the fact he was

experiencing health problems and uh they

precluded such a physically demanding

process as directing

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movies his fundraising actually began in

the Martin Lewis days the very first MDA

ton was hosted by Jerry and

Dean and it just blossomed from there

because Jerry has always been interested

in humanitarian causes the muscular

distrophy cause being the closest to his

heart though your dreams be TOs so this

is something that LS has devoted himself

body and soul to for a very very long

time in fact it was very hard to

disentangle muscular distrophy from

Jerry Lewis he became such a

personification of the cause and

although that's actually now over still

in America most people know Lewis I

suspect for his humanitarian work rather

than for his

films you'll

never

walk

allone walk on

walk

on with hope in your

heart and you'll

never walk

along You'll

Never

Walk

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allone thank you and good night

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when I went to the circus when I was

five or six I met a lot of the clowns

and I met them throughout the years

every time I went to the circus same

clowns older but

smart very

smart I was putting on my clown makeup

and I had 24 of them around my table

watching me make

up and in the mirror you see 24

different clowns watching me it was

beautiful oh my God

this was my first professional

picture I was uh

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16 The

King The

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King f

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this is the greatest love of my

life right there with

her great love affair all of my crew

would go home after the day and I take

it home with

me from the time I was a kid I always

wrote about what I

see in the world

I'm always looking and seeing the

world and I see it as it is but I can

tweak it and make it

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funny he was closer to me than a brother

than a father than a mother he was

closer to me than anyone else in my life

ever

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and I miss him today like I missed him

the day he died doesn't change every day

I think about

him here's my

hero Nutty

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Nutty Marty

scores the American critics are full of

[ __ ] they have have no idea what I'm

doing they never

have see they wrote great critiques on

king of comedy because it wasn't low

brow it wasn't taking

Falls it

wasn't none of that and they like that

Jerry's now working for

them you don't worry about them you

don't don't think about them or you

would ruin your life if you start to do

what they say you'd be finished you'll

be a Critic in a small paper in

Rochester New

York my writing was to give

pleasure every script I've written was

for the audience to have a good

time I'm nostalgic about everything

not any one thing but many things I've

been very lucky look at all that that's

a lifetime of wonderful

moments I'm very

lucky I'm

blessed I've been

given some wonderful

abilities that help me get through to

the

public and that's the bottom line of all

and that is love If You Give Love to

your audience they're going to give it

back you can't explain Fame so I said

it's

like a big balloon and a bunch of

children around it with long

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pins and if they buy a

ticket they've got the right to do that

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don't my

CH I

the

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my he

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do have to get excited after I'm only

out

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herey here we

go I can

smile just because of you

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got

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