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Comedian Jerry Lewis knew how to laugh, cry
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By HILLEL ITALIE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Jerry
Lewis sometimes didn’t
know whether to laugh or
cry.
“There’s nothing more
dramatic than the comedy
I’ve done,” Lewis, who died
Sunday at age 91, told The
Associated Press in 2016.
“Because the comedy I’ve
done is to get to the audience,
get them to feel it, or they
won’t laugh.”
If jokes are the children of
pain, then Lewis was a born
patriarch. The filmmaker,
entertainer and sleepless host
of the Muscular Dystro-
phy telethons was a storm
system of rage and ecstasy,
Olympian physical talent,
artistic aspiration and vintage
Vegas schmaltz. The crazed
funnyman who would scream
like a toddler worked on a
Holocaust film called “The
Day the Clown Cried” and
for his theme song chose the
self-mythology of Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s “You’ll
Never Walk Alone”:
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be
tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk
alone
Some comedians are
always in character. Don
Rickles, who died in April,
stayed true in public to his
persona of good-natured
insulter. With Lewis, you
never knew when he might
switch from sad to funny to
angry to reflective. He might
lash out an audience member
during one of his nightclub
performances or chastise a
gathering at the Friars Club
in New York for not cheer-
ing loud enough for one his
fellow entertainers. He might
glare in response to a report-
er’s question, give a long and
thoughtful response or tell an
unprintable joke.
Lewis believed in truth,
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Actor and comedian Jerry Lewis poses during an interview at
TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles in 2014. Lewis, the come-
dian and director whose fundraising telethons became as fa-
mous as his hit movies, died Sunday. He was 91.
AP PHOTO/PHIL SANDLIN
Comedian Jerry Lewis
cuts up during a hair-
cut for the Muscular
Dystrophy Association
in 1977.
and part of his truth was
darkness. He once bragged
that he told gossip columnist
Louella Parsons she was “a
fat pig.”
“You see the people that
have a point of view, and
have an opinion and have
some intellect are danger-
ous in the film community,
they’re dangerous,” he told
Larry King during a 2000
interview on CNN. “You
want to know why Barbra
Streisand is so difficult?
Because she’s brilliant. She’s
a brilliant entertainer, she’s
a brilliant lady, and she’s a
wonderful human being, and
the community doesn’t like
it.”
Lewis was born into a
world of vaudeville and si-
lent movies and carried with
him decades of 20th century
show business. He was a
final link to the old Borsch
Belt culture that also turned
out Mel Brooks and Henny
Youngman, to the nightclub
circuit where entertainers
such as himself, Frank Sina-
tra and his old partner Dean
Martin got their starts, and to
the early years of Las Vegas
when Lewis helped shape
the city’s brand of glitz and
sentimentality.
Lewis was equally
memorable talking too much
or saying nothing. As the
French seemed to know
better than anyone, he was
among the last comedians
who modeled their work
after Charlie Chaplin, Buster
Keaton and the greats of
the silent era. Like the early
masters, he was the sole
author of his best work, serv-
ing as star, writer, director
and producer of “The Nutty
Professor,” “The Bellboy,”
“The Patsy” and other films.
His most memorable routines
had a near-martial precision,
whether in “The Errand Boy”
when he points a cigar to the
beat of Count Basie’s “Blues
in Hoss Flat” or his mimicry
of a typewriter in “Who’s
Minding the Store?”
He knew well how
to suffer, but also called
himself “the luckiest Jew in
the world” and liked to say
that happiness was family.
Also work and recognition,
knowing he would always
be spotted in a crowd. He
also loved the admiration
of peers and the bad taste of
their compliments. When he
celebrated his 90th birthday
at the Friars, friends such
as Richard Belzer, Gilbert
Gottfried and Robert Klein
turned up to wish him well,
remind of his age and make
fun of his sex life. Jim Carrey
had a final message for his
hero.
“He’s 90!” Carrey called
out. “He can still disappoint
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