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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
[Applause]
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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