JERRY LEWIS supported by staffers when legs almost fail him 

that's a lie ,

I saw him do an interview within a couple years before he died. In the interview he made a big deal, to great applause and approval, over how his sons were his greatest legacy. Then he cuts them out of his will! Creepy Man and his Golddigger wife!

@@patman83 If Jerry's real life children haven't gotten rich over the family name that's their fault. The opportunities were always there to coast on daddy's name. He owed them nothing. It always goes to the new wife. As it should.

Also, Jerry's real-life kids sold exaggerated stories to tabloids about getting whipped as kids. My best friend worked with one of the Cosby sons who told him his brother talked him into doing the book filled with lies for money. Christina Crawford recently admitted the same thing about what she wrongfully did to Joan Crawford. Jerry is Lord. God should take lessons from him about helping humanity. So you losers who can't live with yourselves and all your loserships without cutting down the greatest contributor to mankind, can go suck raw eggs.

No you got it wrong.He had to bail one of his kids from drunk driving,rape,drugs...He once spend half a million dollars ($500,000) on just one kid helping him out.

I hate false titles. But these assholes need views to feel good about themselves.

It is very strange

The person getting it has to apply for it pay for it and be approved. He probably didn't want to spend the money.

He doesn't deserve it....

Do you know Jerry Lewis was a consultant on the remake which features comedian Eddie Murphy? I think both are equally great!

Yeah maybe it’s just not my time but everything I’ve seen from him I just don’t find funny I find annoying. And I can’t chalk it up to the time because Abbott and Costello were way before him and I think people like them, the Marx brothers and buster keaton are hilarious, so it isn’t a product of it’s time thing I thought Dean Martin was pretty funny and rickles is obviously hilarious. I think his status as a celebrity overtook what he actually was as a comedian or comedic actor everyone just talks about how classy these guys and this time were, I mean they STILL say that even with everything that came out about him. Even if you’re naive enough to believe all of those women are lying, and all these people he’s worked with are lying fine. You don’t believe his kids?? That he was an abusive father and husband, and took them out of the will because they tried to help and protect their mother that he had been abusing for 30 years? He was a selfish scumbag. Didn’t care about his children, his grandchildren, he only kept his second wife and their adopted kid in the will, and only 2 of 5 of his sons were even allowed to attend the funeral. Idk how anyone can try to defend him as a person you can’t say “oh it’s just the time back then” because he did all this shit with his kids towards the end, that was recently and he even continued sexually harassing women into the 2010s

@@byHexted well, grow some sense of humor.

You realize he was an absolute monster, right?

Not funny at all, look at Jim Carrey than look at him.

Nothing funny just a mean spirited control freak till the end!

oh bullshit so why are you here.

it was an acquired taste...the joke of Jerry Lewis is that a grown man is acting like a nine year old kid, which is what we would ALL like to DO sometimes, but we feel it would be inappropriate, so we don't do it....Jerry DID do it, and if we understand that was his schtick, then we can begin to understand and appreciate it!

He was a unft father,even after he is gone

@@michaeldarcangelo9883 What makes you think his kids deserved a dime? Small nobodies have to attack the great achievers out of jealousy. It's really pathetic of you all.

Once Mr. Lewis started taking six hours off and driving around the stage in a motorized cart, I sadly realized that an end of a great Era of entertainers and television was coming to an end.

Agreed, and even if you were a lot younger, being on your knees for a bit like this can make it a less than fluid rise back to your feet!! Jerry was great and entertaining as ever during the proceedings!!!

I'm only 58 and I'd need help getting up from that position.

If you were 68 you might have known that Jerry Lewis was the greatest dancer ever and probably had the fastest and strongest legs ever.

Jan you're a real kiss ass!

KLUNKET true! Standing up after kneeling is the hardest part. Many younger people would need a hand.

Well said, and true.

Yeh he was not a nice person in real life ego manic.

Yeah, I'm afraid you are most likely right. When he came to Australia (Perth WA) the very last time a few years ago, my cousin (who like me grew up loving Martin and Lewis) so much he named his first born "Martin Lewis"...anyway. He had the opportunity to see Jerry live and ask a question, so he jumped at the chance. When it came time to ask his question, he told Jerry that he was a huge life long fan and that he actually worked in minor radio broadcasting...before he could actually ask his question, Jerry piped up and said/asked "do you fix em ?" My cousin took it in his stride...but I saw it for what it was, Belittlement at it's finest. NEVER meet your heroes ! I know my cuz will never say it, but that must of hurt. Jerry was an AH to him. Dean on the other hand...was delightful.

@@themessenger5868 yeh Dean Martin was well loved, and it came to the point that Jerry Lewis was going behind his back all the time and everyone on the movie sets where starting to dislike him. And when he died he left his sons nothing in his will never was not a nice man totally different from the character on screen .

@@yvonnechambers6635 Hear Say . Do you have any proof ?

¿"Sufre de longevidad"? ¿Se sufre de eso?

Wasn't Jerry Lewis a drug addict?

@@cherylkoski7184 You are asking a thoughtless question. Jerry Lewis injured his spine soon after he became famous, when he was very young. He went through his entire working life in pain belying his smiles and positive outlook. Of course he was on heavy medication. And yes, of course he needed drugs like no one else. But you don't lump him together with "drug addicts"!

God ! Why do ppl make that pointless /'observation' . There will never be another u or me either !!!

@@spaceengineer1452 facts

Hopefully not.

HE WAS A F*^+

Cutting your children of your inheritance is not necessarily a bad thing.

@@gustory1186 maybe if your kids are vile? But if you’re giving it to his disgusting 2nd family like he did, it’s pathetic. Jerry was never even funny

@@Initium1000 Jerry was never even funny? Fortunately for him enough people disagreed with you to make him a comedy legend.

@@DoctorBrodski Can you tell me what he did that was funny? I'm not trying to be difficult, I really don't know. I've always seen him as embarrassingly awkward. Doing voices and crossed eyes bc he can't think of anything funny to say.

@@fineneighborhood His most popular movies show him at his best. The awkward klutz was his stock character, but The King Of Comedy with Robert DeNiro showed him capable of more serious performing when he felt inclined to go that way.

Lewis is the Welsh version of Louis [apparently] :)

Was not a great person

He was definitely not a great person. Treated his family like garbage and was a self-absorbed asshole.

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MpowerdAPE Jerry WAS physically fit and dexterous when he was a young man, but all those pratfalls took their toll on him as he aged, as can be seen here. And as for nobody ever imitating him - have you never heard of Jim Carey?

you are a moron for even watching this

@@richardcross134 am I a moron for reading your comment?

@@coletanner5193 Touche ! Ha ha... Funny.

@@richardcross134 Says the dude reading the comments... you idiot.

Yes he did great things. 😘 😘

GuamChris - I'm not a baby boomer, but I certainly do. His movies both with Dean as well as his solo's, were played in the 70's when I was a kid. I love him more than words can express. I also have a 20 year old daughter who thanks to being exposed to his movies through me, loves him; not quite as much as me, but I am a little obsessed with the man. 😊 I own everything I've been able to get my hands on, and I watch documentaries and interviews. Jer on The Dick Cavett is my favourite ☺

I'm a baby boomer and never could stand the guy. He was never funny, just annoying like a fly in your face.

I'm gen X and I absolutely love the guy.... even though he sadly passed away recently, I'll never forget him. I absolutely loved watching him growing up.... lots of laughs. What an intelligent and amazing person he was. He wasn't perfect by all means, but he definitely had heart and demonstrated that throughout his life. RIP Jerry.

cindy pattana I too am a baby boomer (born just four years after the War), and I feel exactly the same way as you. Jerry’s ‘humour’ always left me cold except when he worked with Dean, and then only because of Dean’s contribution to the act. I know many people will disagree, and that’s their prerogative, but for me Dean’s ad-libs and extremely witty one-liners were far more hilarious than all of Jerry’s yelling and chewing-up-the-scenery antics.

@@lindashelley3635 Everything was scripted, even the mistakes. There was too much money and fame tied to just "winging it." I believe this to be true because Mr. Lewis was a highly detailed perfectionist and one could tell how visually irritated he would become when something did not go as planned. Yes, he was a great extemporaneous speaker too...

That's a kinda hard to do when you become famous before you have children

He was famous before the kids.

No family is perfect

@Toothless Bull Dog 2.0 Neither do you.

I agree, Rosemarie!

You know nothing about him or his private life though.

I disagree. I watched a lot of his movies growing up and he was pretty much locked into one character type, worn into a boring cliche, and later a very rude, inconsiderate man whose entire career would hardly be missed were it never happened. There were many comedic actors from that era.

Heavy Mental He was basically a ‘slapstick’ comedian who rose to fame as one half of a team with Dean Martin in the postwar years. But that kind of comedy became less popular with the public over the following decades and Jerry rather faded away. He did make some quite successful films, but I feel that Dean maintained his popular appeal for a longer time because he diversified more. He had a very popular TV show that lasted for many years, and also proved to be a good dramatic actor in such films as Rio Bravo and The Young Lions. Also, of course, he was an integral part of the famous Rat Pack, who ruled supreme in Vegas in the early 1960s.

Details, please.

Chiudi la bocca buffone

Absolutely true.

@@robertbdesmond Non ce ne frega un cazzo. Chi non ha idoli valuta solo la sua carriera artistica. Chi invece guarda altre cose è un poveraccio

Maybe a legend to you.

Amo Jerry Lewis,,,

He may have made people laugh but he was a miserable mean man when it came to his family. Have you seen the interview in his last years where he went out of his way to be as rude as possible. No adoration here for someone like that.

That means how old are you now? How I wish I would grow to be so old but I think all the preservatives in this generation kills me very2 early. I'm 22. God bless you :)

@@willieboyce965 you're a douche

Ignorant snobs, you know who you are don't you. Maybe a cuss word or two would make you laugh. You make me sick.Jerry is. a God send, period!

France can have him and all his "art"

Indeed glad he is gone never liked him! He is now in hell!

Amen.

Watch his movies Ray, he is among the funniest of all time.

The homeless one ?

He only had 6 sons and his adobted daughter.

...........while his first family cried.

one of the things I learned watching the Tonight Show, Letterman, etc was I liked many celebrities- because of the roles they played. and when I saw who they really were- I didn't like them so much anymore. Today, it seems many celebs are trying to kill their careers with their big mouths. I blame their agents. lol

Truth SeekerVP yep, me too

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@AUG, oh I do not know that..... Everybody has 2 faces...... 😃🤫😌🤒