Jerry Lewis

birthdays June 29, 2024

Lost Richard Lewis Interview Released for His Birthday (Which Is Today)“I don’t have an act. I am the act.”

By Anne Victoria Clark

Oct. 24, 2017

7 of the Most Confusing Twists in Comedy HistoryThere’s no shortage of confusing behavior going on in the entertainment industry. At this stage, the job description for becoming a celebrity […]

By Tony Alpsen

Sept. 22, 2017

Jerry Lewis ‘Intentionally’ Left All Six Kids From First Marriage Out of Will“… they shall receive no benefits hereunder.”

By Tim McGovern

Aug. 22, 2017

Jerry Lewis, America’s Polarizing Clown PrinceA look back at the life and work of a man who was monstrous — and brilliant.

By David Edelstein

Aug. 21, 2017

RIP Jerry LewisNot long after the comedy world lost a legend and pioneer when Dick Gregory passed away over the weekend, it lost another star. Yesterday it […]

By Megh Wright

obits Aug. 20, 2017

Comedy Legend Jerry Lewis Dead at 91His family confirmed the news.

By Devon Ivie

Apr. 6, 2017

The Best of Don Rickles’s Roast Jokes▶️ “I tell you out there, America, our governor is dumb!”

By Jared T. Miller

candy Dec. 19, 2016

Jerry Lewis Gave an Interview Full of Monosyllabic Answers and It’s a DelightThe famed comedian’s reticence was on brand.

By Hunter Harris

lost and found June 17, 2016

Part of Jerry Lewis’s Lost Film Appears OnlineFew people have ever seen the movie in full.

By Jackson McHenry

lost and found Aug. 8, 2015

Jerry Lewis’s Infamous Lost Holocaust Clown Film May Finally Be FoundThe Library of Congress has acquired the only known print of Lewis’s notoriously unseen The Day the Clown Died.

By Greg Cwik

Aug. 6, 2015

Jerry Lewis Gave ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ to the Library of CongressOver fifty years after it was made, one of Jerry Lewis’s biggest regrets will finally be headed to theaters. According to the LA Times, Lewis […]

By Megh Wright

excerpt Dec. 15, 2014

Patton Oswalt on Lewis’s Holocaust Clown FilmAn excerpt from his upcoming book, Silver Screen Fiend.

By Patton Oswalt

Jan. 7, 2014

Here Are Two Clips from Jerry Lewis’s ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ Back in August, a YouTube user uploaded some rare behind-the-scenes footage from Jerry Lewis’s unreleased 1972 film The Day the Clown Cried in […]

By Megh Wright

Aug. 12, 2013

Watch Rare Footage from Jerry Lewis’s ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ Here’s some rare “making of” footage from The Day the Clown Cried, the Jerry Lewis-directed 1972 movie in which he starred as a clown in a […]

By Bradford Evans

found footage Aug. 12, 2013

Footage Emerges From Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Clown FilmThe infamous Day the Clown Cried.

By Jesse David Fox

tribeca film festival Apr. 29, 2013

There Is Still No Love Lost Between Sandra Bernhard and Jerry LewisAt Tribeca, the two King of Comedy stars go at each other.

By Kyle Buchanan

Oct. 29, 2012

Technically Funny: Trailblazing Comedians Whose Technical Innovations […]They say necessity is the mother of invention. That may true, but let’s not forget the three headed monster-father of vanity, greed, and […]

By Justin Gray

July 18, 2012

Jerry Lewis Is Making a ‘Nutty Professor’ MusicalThe New York Times has a story about Jerry Lewis, at 86, directing a musical adaptation of The Nutty Professor in Nashville. Sadly, he is […]

By Jesse David Fox

May 31, 2012

We Laugh So We Don’t Cry: The Humor in Holocaust FilmsThe Holocaust is no laughing matter. Not only an immense and terrible tragedy, the Holocaust is also an extremely well-recorded tragedy. Many […]

By Justin Geldzahler

tv July 29, 2011

Rosie O’Donnell and Jerry Lewis Talk Razor Blades, Has-Beens at TCA“The Schick Intuition Razor is the best thing that’s happened to women since the Tampax multi-pack.”

By Josef Adalian

jerry lewis May 16, 2011