Jerry Lewis… a personal hero

Jerry Lewis could do it all. He is one of the greatest comedians ever, a mime of the stature of Chaplin and Laurel, a great actor, and most important of all one the greatest filmmakers of all time. His impact on the art of filmmaking is enormous. Yes, he also directed most of his films and supervised almost all of them. Maybe that annoyed many people in Hollywood, I don’t know. What I know is that he is trully a genius, he made his films way ahead of his time, so much so, that we have yet to recognize him as the great artist he was. In France, Jerry Lewis is called “Le Roi de Crazy” while in America, he is still an embarrassing and unexplained paradox, and often ridiculed. Some say it is because of his complex personality and public persona. Maybe he was too frank and honest. But whatever you think of him as a person shouldn’t get in the way of judging him as an artist. It’s like saying I don’t think Woody Allen is a great filmmaker because I do not agree with his personal life choices. But there are many examples of such misjudgments in history. But if you think of him as retro, or too early a comedian to still make you laugh, or you have a ceratin image in your mind when you hear the name Jerry Lewis, check out his best films in the list below and get ready for something magic and personal…

Check him out! (Search, find, watch, buy)
Arizona Dream (1994)
Funny Bones (1995)
The King of Comedy (1983)
Hardly Working (1979)
The Patsy (1964)
The Nutty Professor (1963)
Cinderfella (1960)
The BellBoy (1960)

Find out stuff about Jerry Lewis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001471/
http://www.jerrylewiscomedy.com/

Links on youtube ( a taster )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YISmpiUIT5A The Quest for Jerry Lewis p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWPN8lG55c The Quest for Jerry Lewis p2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0coinkg7IIA The Quest for Jerry Lewis p3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA9BwovdSN8 Comic Relief 1986 “Jerry Lewis”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk86oeOCKHk Live in Las Vegas p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOqvXLrbVtc Live in Las Vegas p2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvPc4d-Kh4 Live in Las Vegas p3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8RpCdRH-ds Live in Las Vegas p4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQYozT0F_M Live in Las Vegas p5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uSrL3aU8Q Live in Las Vegas p6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aoCu4mO_BU Live in Las Vegas p7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnm8srUJDQ8 Live in Las Vegas p8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvmDK6P7j5A Martin and Lewis reunited P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Xtd-QD8oc Martin and Lewis reunited P2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEtIllFGQ4 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Reel #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF-7XbC_V9M Hollywood Rivals : Dean and Jerry p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ9Qc4YzUAw Hollywood Rivals : Dean and Jerry p2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3pxhPayt6k Hollywood Rivals : Dean and Jerry p3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0RdW6mXt_I Hollywood Rivals : Dean and Jerry p4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKiJm0IBP68 On Bob Costas p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuVVvEig2ic Cinderfella Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f5S5RSoYxQ On the “Big Mouth” p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URmub5huWSk On the “Big Mouth” p2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkSnG-iDAA On the “Big Mouth” p3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTI_VaPZ5CY On the “Big Mouth” p4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEne41-Qsr4 On the “Big Mouth” p5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EITsF3SKzY On the “Big Mouth” p6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWjpokk2F0Y Jerry Lewis Show (1963) p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF8iHnSQOT4 about his European fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMStQOludDw about movie-business tyrants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGL1-25yHEc Dick Cavett p2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UA0-pTuSjU about the Chairman Of The Board scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUN_O94zjBE Dick Cavett p1