6:17 - Amazing here that he mentions his next upcoming film as "The Day the Clown Cried" which was to appear at the Cannes Film festival, followed by a wide US release in the fall, which of course never happened.
@@waynedoyle5584 Jerry Lewis felt that the movie was so bad he refused to release it. However, now that he'd dead, it WILL get a release at some stage. No telling when, though.
Lewis said in an interview that he gave the Library of Congress everything apart from'The Day The Clown Cried' he said it was so bad he didn't want anyone to see it.
Terrible questions ..Should have asked him about how he liked playing a German in Which way to the front and how many takes it took to get through the " I must have da passvoid" ..🤣🤣🤣 brilliant work!
The Funny thing about this is he comes on as really nice and says his kids are loved at home and I’m sure he did but wonder what went wrong and why he disowned them .
Remember this interview aired in the early 70’s when he was still with his first wife. Time and subsequent marriages can change relationships within families
I'll always wonder why he didn't make an eventual leap into dramatic starring roles versus sticking with his same ol same ol shtick that grew tiresome. I think he would have become an excellent dramatic actor.
I agree. I've thought for years that he would have been great in a heavy dramatic role as a villain. Kind of like when they cast Henry Fonda as the bad guy in Once Upon the Time in the West. His performance in The King of Comedy hinted at what he could do in a dramatic role. When he wasn't clowning, he sometimes projected an air of menace.
He did, at least, once, when he played Jerry Langford in "The King of Comedy", where he basically plays himself in a dramatic role, to outstanding effect. I think comedy is probably the toughest genre for an actor to do. Probably, he, Mr. Jerry Lewis, enjoyed comedy the best, however, imho, he could have been also a great dramatic actor had he pursued that path, as the aforementioned movie proves. By the way, that movie, "The King of Comedy" is a great one, worth seeing.
Il était devenu drôlement bel homme ! Quand on regarde ses dernières vidéos où il est affaissé et a perdu de nombreux centimètres à la toise,.ça fait vraiment de la peine. C'est terrible de vieillir....pour tout le monde....😢
Those kids he loved so much were cut out of his will and left nothing. His youngest, 8-years-old at the time, died in poverty as a drug addict... his illegitimate daughter could never get him to take responsibility for her. Lewis was a total jerk.
But he did raise them, gave them an education, some of them even worked for him later in his life. He divorced Patti in 1983, when most of them were already grown ups. The youngest son was 19 at the time. The oldest 38. It's not like he went away when they were babies, and never looked back. But for that illegitimate daughter, he really did her wrong. Never wanted to help her knowing she's homeless.
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other Dick Cavett ones.
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where Dick Cavett interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney?
Jerry Lewis certainly did alot to help young disabled children. I respect him for that. However, there were many occasions when Jerry was mean and nasty to people Jerry saw it as joking around - he even said so - but many people interpreted his jokes as extremely mean and nasty and they voiced their concerns to him. I dont think Jerry realised that not everyone appreciated his crude style of jokes or crude off screen humour. His off screen humour was very different from his on screen humour. The ON SCREEN Jerry was the child friendly Jerry that we saw. But the OFF SCREEN Jerry was the adult content Jerry that only people like me who have worked in the industry saw firsthand. People need to learn to distinguish between the ON SCREEN Jerry and the OFF SCREEN Jerry - as they were not the same person. I met him several times in the late 1980's. He told us that he was just joking around with us. (The crew) Its just that other members of the crew did not always get the crude jokes - particularly his more "adult content" jokes. That was the OFF SCREEN Jerry that i worked with in the late 1980's. He was a great comic ON SCREEN - but OFF SCREEN some of his more sexually explicit jokes with the crew were shocking to us. Like i said, most people only saw the ON SCREEN Jerry who was child friendly. But i worked with the OFF SCREEN adult content Jerry that had a completely different style of humour from the ON SCREEN Jerry. It was very adult content in terms of the nature of the jokes. Our job as the crew is to shoot the scene after the background sets have been built and the wadrobe and make up artists have done their work and the lighting crew set up. It was inbetween shooting scenes that i met the REAL Jerry - and trust me - his style of humour was completely different to his child friendly movies.
Too bad he treated his kids so bad" I think that is why Dean left him" Even has a girl that lives on the street...not a penny for her ....Not a penny for any of them when he died
Dave N Japan I don’t know, I am one of those fans who have always felt that there was something deeper and much more personal behind their breakup. I mean, they were so close and such good friends for so many years (in fact Jerry always referred to Dean as a combination “big brother and father figure”) that it just doesn’t seem to make any sense that a purely business decision would engender so much bitterness and such a deafening almost lifelong silence on the subject on both their parts. There has been much speculation over the years, but now they are both gone (and most of their contemporaries also) it seems that it will probably remain a mystery, unless one of their surviving family members might someday come forward with a more meaningful explanation.
@@lindashelley3635 Dean became jealous of Jerry as Jerry's popularity grew, and Dean's singing numbers in his movies became less interesting than Jerry's slapstick comedy. Jerry never said this, but some of their exactuives did.
I have always love Jerry Lewis’ comedic style. I have a couple of favorite movies of his. But after he passed away, I was shocked that he did not leave any of his wealth to his biological children & grandchildren. How can he do that to family. Very disappointing to find this out of his persona.
@@Sunflower-cb1sk Maybe he just knew that the kids in his first marriage would inherit all of the wealth that his first wife got in the divorce settlement--which probably included the Bel-Air Mansion. WHen that mansion was put on the market recently, wasnt it the first six who shared in the proceeds--whic was probably 10-20 million?
JoeysWorldTour I've just checked his health record and it appears he had everything but bipolarity (including suffering from obnoxiousness, but we won't go there).
He never evolved from slapstick comedy. The critics constantly reminded him of that, and he hated them for it. Behind the scenes he was a bitter, vindictive, twisted, sociopath. He was terrible to almost everyone, especially his own family. Dean was ecstatic to be rid of him.
Absolutely true. Dean's kids adored him. Jerry's hated him. As far as talent was concerned, well, Jerry put Jan Murray in the same category as Gleason. Idiot.
Rob Denaro I don’t know if ‘ecstatic’ is exactly the right word. I feel that Dean was certainly relieved to finally move on in his own career after so many years playing second fiddle to Jerry’s slapstick humour. And he certainly proved to be a fine straight dramatic actor, playing alongside the likes of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and John Wayne amongst others. Plus of course having his own long- running and top-rated TV show ( in which he was able to really demonstrate his own considerable, if very different, comedic talents), as well as becoming a member of the famed Rat Pack.
“Any man who gets up to do comedy is a Lion.” Notice how he said “man”? He used to say “women aren’t funny”. Oh, really, do the names Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and multiple others ring any bells? Nasty man.
Lightning27,Jerry lewis was a comic genius.jerry was an international star and was adored by millions of people.a great entertainer and a great humanitarian.
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where Dick Cavett interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney?
6:17 - Amazing here that he mentions his next upcoming film as "The Day the Clown Cried" which was to appear at the Cannes Film festival, followed by a wide US release in the fall, which of course never happened.
have you seen it ?....has anyone seen it ?
@@waynedoyle5584 Jerry Lewis felt that the movie was so bad he refused to release it. However, now that he'd dead, it WILL get a release at some stage. No telling when, though.
@David Whitehead He donated it to the Library of Congress, june 2024 they’ll be allowed to screen it
Lewis said in an interview that he gave the Library of Congress everything apart from'The Day The Clown Cried' he said it was so bad he didn't want anyone to see it.
@Cliff for #1 Not true. He gave them Day the Clown Cried as well.
Jerry was a real handsome man
"brown shoes??? you deserve it!!!" 😂😂😂
Guy was 20 years ahead of his time with the grunge look 3:40
And 20 years after grunge a hipster again
@@Johnny_Croissant 😂👍
Time traveler
That smile
Terrible questions ..Should have asked him about how he liked playing a German in Which way to the front and how many takes it took to get through the " I must have da passvoid" ..🤣🤣🤣 brilliant work!
4:00 it's funny now knowing that he did not leave any of his fortune to any of his biological children.
I wonder why that was. My grandfather was my best friend and didn't leave me anything but what I got from him in life is way more valuable than money.
I think he felt his sons sided with their Mom and turned their back on their Dad.
Apparently he was a horrible person in real life
@@gracielacoitinho491you must be the motha
The Funny thing about this is he comes on as really nice and says his kids are loved at home and I’m sure he did but wonder what went wrong and why he disowned them .
There is an interesting RUclips video about his son speaking about how horrible it was living at home with him...
even one is homeless and lives on the street"
Remember this interview aired in the early 70’s when he was still with his first wife. Time and subsequent marriages can change relationships within families
I didn't realize Lewis was so tall... Somehow he reminds me of Jeff Goldblum.
6 ft 1
J.GODBLUM is taller.
He worked in a crouch next to Dean Martin so Dean would appear to be taller
He spent most of his comedy in a crouch.
I love my kids!! (Krusty the Clown voice)
I'll always wonder why he didn't make an eventual leap into dramatic starring roles versus sticking with his same ol same ol shtick that grew tiresome. I think he would have become an excellent dramatic actor.
I agree. I've thought for years that he would have been great in a heavy dramatic role as a villain. Kind of like when they cast Henry Fonda as the bad guy in Once Upon the Time in the West. His performance in The King of Comedy hinted at what he could do in a dramatic role. When he wasn't clowning, he sometimes projected an air of menace.
He did, at least, once, when he played Jerry Langford in "The King of Comedy", where he basically plays himself in a dramatic role, to outstanding effect. I think comedy is probably the toughest genre for an actor to do. Probably, he, Mr. Jerry Lewis, enjoyed comedy the best, however, imho, he could have been also a great dramatic actor had he pursued that path, as the aforementioned movie proves. By the way, that movie, "The King of Comedy" is a great one, worth seeing.
He did dramatic roles too. ""The King of Comedy" with DeNiro is a perfect example. Also "The Day The Clown Died"
Watch the King of Comedy
Pisces are the sweetest people (at least in women, can't recall that I ever knew any Pisces guys). What a great guy.
Il était devenu drôlement bel homme !
Quand on regarde ses dernières vidéos où il est affaissé et a perdu de nombreux centimètres à la toise,.ça fait vraiment de la peine. C'est terrible de vieillir....pour tout le monde....😢
He uses shoe polish on his hair lol
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His children grew up "in Fear" of him... pretty sad. That was the other side of Jerry Lewis...
Always wanted to see The Day the Clown Cried. Heard it was a hoot.
Those kids he loved so much were cut out of his will and left nothing. His youngest, 8-years-old at the time, died in poverty as a drug addict... his illegitimate daughter could never get him to take responsibility for her. Lewis was a total jerk.
But he did raise them, gave them an education, some of them even worked for him later in his life. He divorced Patti in 1983, when most of them were already grown ups. The youngest son was 19 at the time. The oldest 38. It's not like he went away when they were babies, and never looked back. But for that illegitimate daughter, he really did her wrong. Never wanted to help her knowing she's homeless.
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Does Jerry Lewis really have that squeaky high voice in real life? I thought he did that voice in his movies.
He actually has a very nice speaking voice and can sing too.
Did you even watch the video? His normal voice is not squeaky. When he does do the squeaky voice it's purely for laughs.
Serious or funny he seemed to be a delight to be around
Or a mad drunk
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other Dick Cavett ones.
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where Dick Cavett interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney?
How about any of the Honeymooners actors that were a part of main cast?
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Jerry Lewis certainly did alot to help young disabled children.
I respect him for that.
However, there were many occasions when Jerry was mean and nasty to people
Jerry saw it as joking around - he even said so - but many people interpreted his jokes as extremely mean and nasty and they voiced their concerns to him.
I dont think Jerry realised that not everyone appreciated his crude style of jokes or crude off screen humour.
His off screen humour was very different from his on screen humour.
The ON SCREEN Jerry was the child friendly Jerry that we saw.
But the OFF SCREEN Jerry was the adult content Jerry that only people like me who have worked in the industry saw firsthand.
People need to learn to distinguish between the ON SCREEN Jerry and the
OFF SCREEN Jerry - as they were not the same person.
I met him several times in the late 1980's.
He told us that he was just joking around with us. (The crew)
Its just that other members of the crew did not always get the crude jokes - particularly his more "adult content" jokes.
That was the OFF SCREEN Jerry that i worked with in the late 1980's.
He was a great comic ON SCREEN - but
OFF SCREEN some of his more sexually explicit jokes with the crew were shocking to us.
Like i said, most people only saw the
ON SCREEN Jerry who was child friendly.
But i worked with the OFF SCREEN adult content Jerry that had a completely different style of humour from the ON SCREEN Jerry.
It was very adult content in terms of the nature of the jokes.
Our job as the crew is to shoot the scene after the background sets have been built and the wadrobe and make up artists have done their work and the lighting crew set up.
It was inbetween shooting scenes that i met the REAL Jerry - and trust me - his style of humour was completely different to his child friendly movies.
Wow i would guessed thick hair
Jim Carrey to a tee
3:29 ACDC? Isn’t that a slang term for bisexual? Is there anything you wanna tell us Jerry?
Too bad he treated his kids so bad" I think that is why Dean left him" Even has a girl that lives on the street...not a penny for her ....Not a penny for any of them when he died
Wow, really, treated his kids bad? A daughter on the street? Maybe she wilfully went her own way into heavy drug use and/or prostitution?
Dave N Japan I don’t know, I am one of those fans who have always felt that there was something deeper and much more personal behind their breakup. I mean, they were so close and such good friends for so many years (in fact Jerry always referred to Dean as a combination “big brother and father figure”) that it just doesn’t seem to make any sense that a purely business decision would engender so much bitterness and such a deafening almost lifelong silence on the subject on both their parts. There has been much speculation over the years, but now they are both gone (and most of their contemporaries also) it seems that it will probably remain a mystery, unless one of their surviving family members might someday come forward with a more meaningful explanation.
@@lindashelley3635 Dean became jealous of Jerry as Jerry's popularity grew, and Dean's singing numbers in his movies became less interesting than Jerry's slapstick comedy. Jerry never said this, but some of their exactuives did.
I have always love Jerry Lewis’ comedic style. I have a couple of favorite movies of his.
But after he passed away, I was shocked that he did not leave any of his wealth to his biological children & grandchildren. How can he do that to family. Very disappointing to find this out of his persona.
One of those sons from his first marriage was not biological, he's adopted just like Jerry's daughter Danielle, from his second marriage.
@@Sunflower-cb1sk Maybe he just knew that the kids in his first marriage would inherit all of the wealth that his first wife got in the divorce settlement--which probably included the Bel-Air Mansion. WHen that mansion was put on the market recently, wasnt it the first six who shared in the proceeds--whic was probably 10-20 million?
@@62426637 agree with you completely.
Actually he left it to his second wife and there daughter
He didn’t leave them any wealth, but he did leave them with Welts. He was a Scumbag…
7:47....Sam Kinison
Let's get this off the ground... Telethon...
He was bipolar and needed meds!
JoeysWorldTour I've just checked his health record and it appears he had everything but bipolarity (including suffering from obnoxiousness, but we won't go there).
@@davidsanderson5918 He probably was bipolar and never diagnosed. I think he was a good man, but definitely troubled.
He never evolved from slapstick comedy. The critics constantly reminded him of that, and he hated them for it. Behind the scenes he was a bitter, vindictive, twisted, sociopath. He was terrible to almost everyone, especially his own family. Dean was ecstatic to be rid of him.
Absolutely true. Dean's kids adored him. Jerry's hated him. As far as talent was concerned, well, Jerry put Jan Murray in the same category as Gleason. Idiot.
Rob Denaro I don’t know if ‘ecstatic’ is exactly the right word. I feel that Dean was certainly relieved to finally move on in his own career after so many years playing second fiddle to Jerry’s slapstick humour. And he certainly proved to be a fine straight dramatic actor, playing alongside the likes of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and John Wayne amongst others. Plus of course having his own long- running and top-rated TV show ( in which he was able to really demonstrate his own considerable, if very different, comedic talents), as well as becoming a member of the famed Rat Pack.
i never understood Jerry..he never made me laugh but I always watched his interviews. Martin and Lewis was overrated.
They made an awful lot of money for being overrated!!
@@lauraarcher6996 britney spears made lots of money too..i rest my case
If they made people laugh they weren't overrated.
@@clintonsmith5163 overrated
@@newt0830 Just out of curiosity, how many Martin & Lewis movies have you watched? I'm guessing none but you'll probably say all of them.
Does anyone else find this awkward? As though Dick is having to avoid insulting him or something?
“Any man who gets up to do comedy is a Lion.” Notice how he said “man”? He used to say “women aren’t funny”. Oh, really, do the names Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and multiple others ring any bells? Nasty man.
Joan Rivers was not funny.
Fraud
When I watch these interviews I see so much gayness in him as a homosexual. I wonder if he had to live a life of hiding that for so long
You're an idiot
Who???? Which one??
Sounds like you’re speaking from experience.
Not at all.....
He was a great womanizer and his love for Dean Martin was platonic.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cavette is so awkward and insecure
pity he wasn't this nice in real life, Vile angry & very fake
Jerry Lewis not and never was funny!
Lightning27,Jerry lewis was a comic genius.jerry was an international star and was adored by millions of people.a great entertainer and a great humanitarian.
Millions of people were laughing their asses off because he was never funny! You are a very funny guy! 😂
@@jeremyjohnson7676 ,why would millions of people laugh,if he wasn't funny? I'm confused.
It's YOUR opinion....
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where Dick Cavett interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney?
How about any of the Honeymooners actors that were a part of main cast?