For more than half a century comedian Jerry Lewis has been entertaining audiences around the world with his unique style of exaggerated mugging and heavy-handed sentimentality. A national presence since the mid-1940s, when he teamed up with crooner...

Used by an old actor to a theatre director in Bethel Merriday, by Sinclair Lewis. Almost any professional title can be converted into a nonce name of this...

Jerry Lewis (born on March 16, 1926, according to most sources), is a comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film director known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Lewis has won...

Influence of Golden Lion honoree Lewis strong HOLLYWOOD If Jerry Lewis' comedy has not withstood the test of time, then how does one explain the current slapstick, idiot-savant antics of Jim Carrey, Mike Myers and Adam Sandler, probably the three hottest comics...

Hellraiser "You remember me, don't 'cha?" That highly uncharacteristic query from a 71-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis seals off "Rock And Roll," the Led Zeppelin anthem opening the Killer's comeback album Last Man Standing (Zep's Jimmy Page's lead guitar sparkles on the track)....

Showman Jerry Lewis raised nearly $64 million on Monday during his annual Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, topping last year's event by $3 million."We did it. We did it. I got my buck more. And more. We can go shopping," a...

Jerry Lewis, 80 years old, was soaked with sweat. He sat at the center of a banquet table at the New York Hilton’s Mercury Ballroom last Friday, May 9. It was the Friars Club’s annual roast, and Mr. Lewis—this year’s man on the spit—was also...