Jerry Lewis Dressing Room Interview 1 August 1995 Part 1 of 4
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- Jerry Lewis Dressing Room Interview 1 August 1995 Part 1 of 4. Videographed by Luke Sacher, interviewed by Carole Langer, in his dressing room at the Marquis Theatre, Times Square NYC.
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"I'm very protective of my co-workers" ... What about the time where he banned, on pain of being fired, anyone on the set to speak to his female co-star on a movie because she fought off his sexual assault.
That happened to me in the USAF after reporting my assault. THE ENTIRE BASE picked on me from knocking on my door often & leaving or saying things, leaving notes. Calling on the hall phone, that's used for family calls & hanging up. Blocking all doors I needed to enter & exit, etc. 24/7. We had classes to study for tests or worked from sun-up to sun-down. I transfered, but it followed me at my new location. WHY? It's in my PERSONNEL file, NOT Medical. Police Dept is the same way. That's call The Blue Flu or THE Chill in probably all jobs.
@@ivee5022 So sorry, I would like to think that someone would stand by you. It must have been lonely on top of stressful. Glad that you made it out the other side.
that's nonsense Lewis never sexually harassed anyone
@@ivee5022 Sorry to hear you were assaulted, and that your brothers in arms turned their backs on you. On a very different situation, I spoke up about illegal behaviour at my old company. I followed all the correct whistleblower channels that should have protected my identity. 2 days later I was ostracised by the whole team - boss and peers alike. Then suddenly it was judged that my performance was bad, and they wanted to fire me. So I said fine, that will cost you $200,000. So they paid me to go. Then when I did my tax return, it turned out they had overpaid tax by $60,000 ha ha. So the tax was returned to me; I have it in an escrow account; I emailed them 5 times to say I had something that I urgently needed to discuss with them about my leaving arrangements ... and I haven't heard from them. That was 10 years ago. I'll give it another 5 years, and then get legal advice as to whether I can keep the money
@@ivee5022I'm so sorry they did that to you
His kids can describe what a loving father he was.
They describe him as a monster behind closed doors.
@@hawkeye5829 I know. He disinherited them for no apparent reason also.
Chris loves his Dad so much he just wrote a book about him.
Sweet my ass. He was positively cruel to his children and he left them nothing in his will, despite the fact he had millions and could have set them all up for life. The man was so much up his own ass it hurt. No wonder Dean Martin had nothing to do with him for well over 20 yrs. Dean was class, Jerry was a real prick.
Disagree
I totally agree. If you can’t be kind to your own family don’t blow smoke up my a$$ about how good a humanitarian you are he was great just ask him🤣
He had trusts set up for all his children except the one who spoke badly of him on hard copy or inside edition. He wouldn't allow anyone to betray him twice. I thought he was a jerk, more I learn about him my assumptions are the same Jerry was a gifted asshole
His son was more talented than him. He was jealous of Gary and Dean.
A creep , lost all respect for him ,look him up 🤮🤮🤮
he loves to tell about how he is so humble while being so dang arrogant....it's awesome.
Why would he have any reason to think otherwise? He revolutionized so many things. Stage performing and literally the making of a movie changed with his ideas. Immediate video play back on set. Jerry invented
Just like Sinatra
@@jodavey Thanks! Jerry was a self taught comic genius- as Sinatra was a self taught musical genius. Never mind the warts- all they owed to us was a great performance, and both of them gave us our money's worth. :)
He was a genius
seems pilled up to me. couldbe wrong though. laid back temperament for sure
Excuse me Mr. Lewis could you spit out your gum before we start?
TIs a bit rude isnt it?
In this video he was 70 years old. He looks very good for a 70 year old man.
+Jay Wolf Thanks for tuning in- we shot this interview for our A&E Bio of Jerry- here is a link to it:
th-cam.com/video/1VA13r1-MVM/w-d-xo.html
Thank. I'm always a Jerry Lewis' fan. Just look at him how greatly he describes the art of showbiz and comedy to us so profoundly great. I don't see today's so called "artists" or "actors" who get paid millions of dollars for NOTHING deliver such great artistic conversation. Most "actors"/"artists" in today's Hollywood are empty headed school dropouts who used to be in gangs and even homeless. But they're there for that very same reason, to produce more of themselves, to dumb down the new generations. This was NOT the goal of entertainment industry before; the opposite of was true(to promote great art and thoughts); it changed for worse.
+Jay Wolf Totally! Jerry in his prime was the best of the best... that vacuum scene in Who's Minding the Store is still my favorite ever sight gag of his... His big solo pictures, like the Patsy, Cinderfella, Disorderly Orderly... pure gold.
You can say that again! He could pass for a man of 50 during this interview!!
Uncle Harry, agreed! Jerry aged very well and I think he always looked about 10 years younger than he actually was. Now compare Jerry at 70 to Dean Martin at 70. Jerry aged a whole lot better.
From a hero to zero when I really got to know him
Thank you.
I agree
Well. He was probably neither. . It's incomprehensible how poorly he treated his first wife and sons, but people are complicated. The man did do some good in the world. The Sammy Davis story is truly moving.
@@8ofwands300 maybe he did do good but that doesn't give you the excuse to do bad. Some people do good to appease their consciousness of the bad they've done ,instead of asking forgiveness to his wife and children. That's not a right motivation for doing good.
@@eddyrobichaud5832 Very good point.
He such a protector of his kids that he took them out of his will and made a point to make it known. What a prick.
They likely got a huge amount from what their mom got from the divorce.
When people tell you how great you are year after year, you really believe it.
Thats it! Dean said “People told Jerry “you’re like another Chaplin” when he started to believe it, things were NEVER the same again between us”. Another thing is from their film stardom in ‘49 til this point, he never ever heard the word “no”. He’s used to getting what he wants, when he wants, and how he wants. Something like that doesn’t make u humble, modest etc.
So exactly true. Give him every well deserved positive accolade for sure but he definitely comes across as quite a horse's ass.
saying he gave Sammy pointers startuing out? I seriously dont think so.
He seems irritated that she's telling him how it's going to be when he could do it so much better than she can...in his mind anyway.
The last 20 years of his life it was hard to believe he was a comedian--he was always in such a bad mood.
Always had the other side. Most comedians do. It's just when he got older he didn't have to worry about being punished for it.
Its diabetes.
I don't think there's a big enough shovel to handle all that shit.
🤣🤣
Nothing this man ever said or did caused me to crack a smile.
Made me smile when he died
Chacun à son goût.
As hilarious as he thought he was , he was most hilarious when he consistently boasted about his genius .
THANKYOU LUKE FOR YOUR MESSAGE, AT MOMENT I NOT GOT a facebook as a friend of my daughter a work colleague set my tablet up for me and did not put my proper details in so my original details tablet won,t accept , I,m really pleased Jerry has lots of fans and all day I have been thinking of him hoping he has enjoyed his day lots of lovexxx
Hi Maggie! Sure thing as to Facebook... drop a friend req off any old time...
and Happy St. Patrick's Day! :)
Being a child of NYC, this video really made me laugh:
th-cam.com/video/meEUaYrxuoA/w-d-xo.html
The gum chewing on this whole interview and his arrogance Ruined this whole video for me
Me too 😡
For my own, I see a man who is in great physical pain....
He stands up to take a pillow for his back....
This man was dealing with a tremendous amount of physical pain, he was suffering from prostate cancer and you have the brass balls to be upset about him having some candies????
@@rosedaddona4262 And he died and left his family nothing please
@@rosedaddona4262 The only one with brass balls as you no one was attacking him he wasn’t eating candy he was chewing gum the man was rude to everybody he work with I knew him personally did you
I never knew Jerry was such a wonderful,brave, and altruistic person..Glad he did this interview so he could tell me..
Haha!
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well said.
Paraphrased: "I always had to help people. It was just in me. I'm a hero. It's just who I am: a hero."
People who have to tell you wonderful they are, are presenting their version only. Genuine people are just themselves & dont go on about it.
Watch other videos he sexually assaulted quite a few! Far from sweet too.
After what has come out this year on the sexual abuse this guy dished out...it's hard to believe he really cared about those who had been demeaned.
It's possible to do both.
I was one of Jerry's Kids according to some people I knew when I was real little
@@majorkade He seems to be projecting. He wasn't protective of his family. ASK.HIS.SONS. THEY HATE THE MONSTER HE SHOWED THEM.
Jerry often treated the people who worked for him like crap. He was arrogant, nasty to hired help and delusional about his stated humanity. That doesn't take away from his comedic and entertainment genius. Bottom line, he was a talented asshole.
He “grew up with love”. Funny he didn’t practice it within his family. What a bullshit actor this man was. The interviewer is asking soft questions. And Jerry is at his best when honoring himself.
Many gifted comics are deadly serious off camera and are typically unhappy, angry, tortured souls. Freud’s insights about humor were spot on. In Jerry’s case, he was abandoned by both his parents, which had to be a psychic wound he carried throughout his life. I get it.
So that’s why he disowned his Own Children...
@@AbeTheSigma007
I know. Sick man. He, himself, became like the bad parents who abandoned him. It’s a sad, all-too common phenomenon that people sometimes turn out to be the cruel, narcissistic parents who they, themselves, endured.
I get it too. Plus his own children sued him for money. That hurt him. Bad mistake. His children weren’t innocent either. They lashed out.
This man's ego is off the chart. He is sanctimonious self important and he believes his own press. Humility is not in his repertoire.
Lots of people have had hard lives but they don't become sexual deviants and rapists because of it. Jerry did.
Is this the ultimate proof of what my father used to say, "There is nothing more important than sincerity...once you learn to fake sincerity, you have it made"? Or is this the real McCoy?
Loving Docs (I watch more docs than movies) I always wondered what the whole process of interviewing was really like, I know more than 90% of shot footage is ever shown, which is really disappointing bcuz there are a lot of gems (stories) that we will never see.
Thanks for showing the whole interview, I remember watching this when it was TV.
I used to watch a lot A&E Bio, I don't watch them much anymore bcuz they would rather do shows on trash like the Kardashians instead of people with actual talent these days.
+Ham On Rye + Red Wine Well thanks SO MUCH! If you want to see it again, here's a link- we can't upload it ourselves due to contract arrangement with A&E:
th-cam.com/video/1VA13r1-MVM/w-d-xo.html
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
+Ham On Rye + Red Wine AHAHA! Totally! :)
Here is the finished Bio if you ever want to see it again:
th-cam.com/video/1VA13r1-MVM/w-d-xo.html
Luke Sacher
+soapbxprod thanks! I've since watched all 4 parts many times over, it's so compelling bcuz I've never heard Jerry talk about some of these subjects before.
I love watching videos from these legends, Martin and Lewis, Rat Pack, the Golden era of entertainment, even though I wasn't born until 71' my favorite era is mid 50's-late eighties/early 90's, I mean movies, music, other forms of entertainment...nothing good really happened after that era, maybe I'm getting older or maybe the true Legends and Icons just aren't coming from the new generation.
I never get those people who say Jerry is overrated and a hack, well if they think that but think Jim Carrey is a genius, then they're being a hypocrite bcuz Jim Carrey is basically doing/being Jerry Lewis!
BTW, I am a Jim Carrey fan as much as Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Don Rickles, I could go on...
Great channel, love it pls keep posting anything you have!
+Ham On Rye + Red Wine Thanks again, boss. :)
Before he teamed up with Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis' act consisted of miming to records. But to hear Jerry talk, he was the creative genius behind the team. Granted Lewis was funny, at times, but without Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis would never have achieved the fame that he did. And for the record, it was Dean and not Jerry that broke up the act. Dean admitted to a BBC interviewer that he had grown tired of acting in the Hal Wallis movies where his role was reduced to just a few songs and acting in order to make more room for Jerry. ( I wonder whose idea that was?)
Dear Mark- thanks for your comment. We shot this interview for a 1996 Biography of Jerry, narrated by Alan King. Here is a link to it- hope that you like it: th-cam.com/video/1VA13r1-MVM/w-d-xo.html
Dean went on to do some acting in movies like, 'Wreaking Crew' after a lull in his career no?
It was Jerry who left Dean. When Dean told him "you can talk about love all you want but to me you are just the fucking dollar sign".
Dean got carried away by whoever slipped between them and divided them. If they hadn't let anyone in between them and if Dean had been able to communicate better they wouldn't have broken up like that. They no longer communicated and it hurts so much to think so.
and Jerry was the mastermind of the duo. Jerry wrote the skits, took care of the financial side while Dean played golf. Dean protected Jerry from everything else. Jerry was the mind, Dean was the armand when they met Jerry was only 19 and already earning good money. Dean was 28 and in debt. Shortly thereafter, he had to file for bankruptcy.
DEAN GAVE his first wife the home and money, always took care of her mother. Dean was devastated when HIS son died.
Jerry has so many versions of how he met Dean. It’s always him who comes up with act, writes it up, etc. Jerry just didn’t care about the truth. Jerry only cared about himself. Dean left Jerry. Jerry told people that for years. Then, he suddenly, years later, said that he was the one who left. Don’t believe him. He was a very angry, mean user.
Don Diego Vega - did you know Jerry and/or Dean? Would love to hear your story.
I love this kooky cat
Charity begins at home except in his case
Your wright he left he's kids nothing including his wife to what a guy
This is so dark. Looks completely soured on life.
His cheerful soul died after breaking up with Dean Martin in my opinion. It was destroyed inside.
What you are seeing is his depth of character. To you it's scary to people who are deep he is just very real. You are just afraid of drowning in deep water.
@@rosedaddona4262 I can swim just fine thanks in my own deep water, full of sharks and poisonous jellyfish lol. Depth of character has nothing to do with it...he looks utterly miserable. I am a massive Jerry Lewis fan but he is not in a good place in this video.
10:18 "People that are maligned or demeaned and have no recourse." Like the well-intentioned young Hollywood Reporter journalist Lewis contemptuously cold-shouldered and dehumanized for an entire interview in 2016.
He wasn’t well-intentioned, he was an idiot. His questions were more like those of a junior high school reporter, and he deserved what he got.
He also walked out on his WTF WITH MARC MARON interview that was fantastic for those 27 minutes it happend
The ''efficiency expert'' that Mr Lewis was taking about. They removed a ''watchman'' but, the interview changed direction before he could say what paramount did. Did they give they give the watchman his job back if you know. Sorry for my ignorance if not knowing this. I love the interview, thank you for posting. x
Right. Why couldn't the woman just let him finish his story?!!!
He was his real nasty and arrogant self in the great film, The King Of Comedy”.
I remember thinking the same thing ! He wasn’t acting!!
"I love people so much"
Not his kids though.
Everyone has limits
left ém nothing
12:12. So if you feel this way why were you so cruel to your family?!?
I do not have enough information to make a decision on the Family situation and if I did who would care about my opinion? I can tell you this through MDA he made countless lives better for Families and Children dealing with Muscular Dystrophy. So if we are going to hold up a measuring stick on overall life performance and making people suffer less and contributions to society few have a longer yardstick than Jerry Lewis and nobody ever heard of me. Bless.
hes very straight forward ...LOve him or hate him but one cant deny his committment to his work and his confidence and his beliefs.very brilliant guy, wonderful performer..
jessie james No doubt about it, jessie... comedy is actually a very serious business! He would work and work and work on one sight gag for days on end... and his loyalty to his crew and cast was unwavering, over more than 20 years...
thanks...LOVE his work...all of it..esp listening to him talk....and his absolute confidence.
jessie james :) Many people disagree with me, but my two favorite pictures of his are "The Patsy" and "Who's Minding the Store"... tha gags are SO good... especially the piano lesson with Hans Conreid, and the vacuum cleaner gone wild... :)
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ha ha..i have some of his movies on dvd. i remember the piano lesson..
jessie james
"Zing fur your Zupper!" AHAHAH! The teacher was Hans Conreid- who was also the voice of "Fearless Leader" on Rocky and Bullwinkle...
Jerry's former film crews say that he did the most fantastical things; he knew all the worker's spouses names their kids names and what sports music they were involved in . At Christmas he would have a big party for cast and crew and one just for the children of the cast and crew. Now those same kids are grandparents and recall Jerry asking them how was the pitching was working out on his baseball team or someone's tap lessons.. Very sensitive thoughtful genius of a man. Cheers for uploads. So appreciative of your good works that will be treasured always.
That's exactly right, Dear- he was so loyal to his cast and crew- most of his technicians worked with him for 20 plus years. And he was super generous- Rolex watches for birthdays... :) I have a bunch of Jerry's private home movies, including his own color sound production of Christmas at the Lewis mansion (formerly LB Mayer's), but I promised him and his son, my friend Anthony, that we would never upload them to TH-cam without their permission. :)
soapbxprod s why did he treat his sons so badly...leaving them all of them out of the will*?
Why treat his first wife patty so poorly,leaving her without money? What a hypocrit? Why cheat on your wife over over over again? His son committed suicide where was he? Jerry remarried adopted a daughter and left everything to his new family? Wow what a guy? And he was worrying about his camera man? Sammy davis? But you treat your family like dirt? I'm appauled.
I have no idea about his will, what he did or not with it.
What we do know is that he did a lot for people. He treated those that worked with, and for, him, well. He devoted years to raise money for research and a cure for MD. I can't say he wasn't a good person because if he wasn't, he wouldn't have done those things. A person's private life isn't my business, and he's no longer here to speak for himself.
Tammy Nelson did you see the interview where he treated the interview like dirt. It's on TH-cam
Now ask what some of the lesser-known actresses he worked with think.
Th irony of this man of this man is unreal
And he wrote all his children (boys) out of his will ... they got nothing. To do such a thing is to show intentional meanness. Somewhere along the way, he got pretty nasty.
You can't judge, you don't know what happened between him, and his first family. How can you say that he got nasty, did you know the man and his family?
They got left the rights to all of his works.
Jerry is the consumate pro, just a tip for any up and coming comedian's, don't ever do an interview with a gob full of junior mints, very distracting.
This interviewer went on for too long about "We will review all the tape and cut out what you don't like". Now, come on, have some guts. I see that many interviewers of Jerry know that he is tough and can be mean but that's Jerry. You will not get respect from a guy like that by coming off too nice as he will think, and know, that it's fake. Of course there is a risk that he will make you stop rolling tape BUT, at least, you did not totally surrender.
This guy was famous at one time ? For what? He soiled his own legacy by the treatment of women and his family. That’s a shame. He fooled a lot of people until the last years of his life. His colors really showed.
Jerry: I always treated my crew with respect, knew their names
Also Jerry: Barks at cameraman, "are you going to be that loose", no eye contact, no name
I was the cameraman... I was 35 at the time and a fairly seasoned veteran- but I took it gladly. Jerry was one of my heroes. He came from my dad's generation. By the end of the day, he and I got along great. He was just testing me, sussing me out. And I was honored. If he'd thought I was an incompetent, he wouldn't have wasted his breath.
He wasn’t barking lol. He could bark but that’s not it.
@@soapbxprod ,jerry lewis was considered a perfectionist.there was nothing he couldnt accomplish in showbusiness.a great entertainer and a great humanitarian.whats wrong with those accomplishments?no one should judge his personal decisions.he must have had valid reasons why he made those decisions.he couldnt be that evil,being he didnt deprive his 2nd wife and daughter.
@Fuzzy Butkus ,i am proposing a question.if jerry was such an evil person,then why didnt he deprive his second wife and daughter?
@@NoBody11010 ,there must have been valid reasons for depriving his first wife and 6 sons.for such a terrible husband and father,they all wanted his money.there are two sides of the story.jerry showed great character when he never neglected his 2nd wife and his adopted daughter.
I could watch interviews of Jerry Lewis for hours - he is so profoundly delusional, it's beyond words ...... LOL
He was an amazing talent! His private life shouldn't be your business! He created magic for people! He made kids laugh for generation! He helped kids in needs and was a pioneer in the film industry! THAT is what we should talk about, not his personality . You shouldn't laugh about a person's character! Would you like for someone to do that to you? Or are you so perfect that people wouldn't have anything rude to say about you?? LOL Your comment towards JL is extremely rude!
@@marym5037 Sycophant
TheVideoInvader what?? Who?
@@marym5037 You!
TheVideoInvader 🙄🙄🙄 Sorry but that word makes no sense in the context lol.
69 or 70 y.o. in this video... amazing.
I met Jerry through my role in the media. He was no clown in real life - he was as smart as a whip.
Everyone who knew this man said he was a horrible person and a human excrement, no one had anything nice to say about him, his own kids and family couldn't stand him. He basically disowned his own kids
This is the most "real" I've ever seen him. Thanks for this.
The EGO is just dripping from this man
Rock Chalk Not ego.... low self esteem and fear. He was complicated.
@@Stephensorrentino Ego Stephen. Not low self esteem and fear. He had a bad reputation for being an ass-hole. Bing Crosby did not dislike anybody, but Jerry he could not stand.
Robert A. Lofgren Jr. Robert, that would be a Lehman’s observation.
Because I knew Jerry Lewis and was a neighbor and friend, and knew his backstory, and spend time on this exact subject with him… I think that my observation is pretty clear.
I also own a self-help and counseling company and Miller bit about psychology therefore I’m sticking with my prognosis… Of my friend Jerry
Still no excuse for his actions for decades
@@Stephensorrentino Okay Stephen, I take your word on what you say. You knew him personally as a friend and neighbor and I and many other comment folks who did not know this man but we're judging him on his attitude in this interview. Thank you for responding back sir.
Will always love him ❤
The more i found out about him over the years the more disgusted i was about him. Loved his movies when i was young.
I wonder who he's had locked in his dressing room over the years.
Hey, it's "whom", ok? AHAHA! Ok, let's count... Corinne Calvet, Marion Marshall, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Stella Stevens... but a lot of those and other actresses then were consensual bedfellows of Jerry- just like Dino, Frank and Sammy...
@@soapbxprod I do apologise, I'm still learning English grammar. You give me the push to go away and check my verbs & prepositions lol
The gum chewing irks me to no end
Hard candies.
Superbad11 plus with the dentures with the gum smacking ... horrible
He was a chain smoker, who lost teeth.
Ah grow up will ya.leave the man alone.
@BearBonesMedia ..Then why are you watching?
I don't know what it is about comedians! Fame makes them see themselves as philosophers, kinda like a gymnast imagining herself to be a great chef after gaining fame in the Olympics. It happens to most of them... J. Lewis, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Richard Pryor... They start spouting life lessons as if anyone cares about anything they have to say except the jokes they tell.
He’s was in a driffrent world he watched his kids be treated like crap he didn’t care he protects every one except his kids he left them out of his world
Now we all know why Dean couldn't take it anymore. Dean was the real talent.
But why do him and Frank have to tell over and over how they got sammy out of the dressing rooms into the hotels over and over...just do whatever is right u don't have to brag about it
I don’t believe Frank talked about it like Jerry did about himself - I recall Sammy telling the story about Frank !
He went from chain smoking to violently chewing gum
Actually hard candies... like jujubies
soapbxprod Thanks! I actually wondered what he was chewing on. Kind of a cool move.
@@soapbxprod Jawbreakers. Releases the tension...
Literally LOL!
The stage and screen Jerry vs the behind the screens/director and business person Jerry are very very different individuals. In other words the character and the actual person are completely different. I like them both for what they represent. Yes, comes across arrogant but he is really kind and honest...brutally honest...and a big supporter of all who work with him and around him. Interesting how he was talking about getting rid of racism back in the 1950’s but here we are still trying to get rid of it now. Dang...we suck as a nation perpetuating hate. Come on....let’s get rid of hate everyone....once and for all.
Exactly
I agree , very well put. It’s sad that everything turns to hate.
Love him or hate him he had some decent qualities.
This all sounds like he was a saint but I have seen another side of him. My wife and I went to see him the South Shore Music Circus, in Cohasset Massachusetts, many, many years ago. We were expecting a great show but he walked off the stage after about 35 minutes. I heard later that someone had pissed him off and he left the audience hanging. I guess the "them" were ignore on that night and the "I" took over. We were all upset at the shortness of the show.
I am from Scituate (:
Outstanding interview. Jerry bearing his soul, so to speak. he was a truly fascinating genius and very driven person.
I think you’re delusional.
@@michaelfleming8490 genius in his own mind. Never though he was funny just annoying.
He became progressively unfunny and more full of himself over the years.
Yes.
your will and this interview give people perspective about you
He is so full of himself and the interviewer is giving him softball questions to make him seem heroic. It is amazing how the truth came out after his death. This self serving and pompous man speaks about himself in heroic terms but treated his own sons likes dogs.
This is one of the most serious looking people I've ever seen for a 'comic'.
RBF!
For decades he had a serious addiction to painkillers but always was a Pill.
Buddy Love
I was a great fan, and as a teen collected money for his telethon! But when I was at a Longs drug store in Southern California, there he was sitting on boxes of soda! I couldn't talk, and was tapping my boyfriend to look up, but my boyfriend didn't look and walked away. Jerry ran away from me, and finaly I yelled that was Jerry Lewis. My boyfriend said no way, but I said listen to his voice. He told me to go say hi, but I was scared. I waited in an isle Jerry was going to pass, but another fan stopped him and asked for an autograph. Jerry said no cuz people mall me, but the store was pretty empty. When Jerry passed my isle, I said hi Jerry, HE IGNORED ME AND HID BEHIND THE CASH REGISTER COUNTER! I was devastated! I was crying and my boyfriend felt really bad so he tried pulling up to Jerry's van but I was ignored again. I'm still heartbroken and it's been over 20 yrs. He says on here he loved people, well I'm one and he wouldn't even say hi. We love our stars but we don't get love back. Without fans, stars wouldn't even exist. All I wanted was to be his fan.
It's a bit reverential , but this is one of the best interviews of a Lewis I've ever seen. Who's the woman? She seems very knowledgable.
We are the company that shot this interview.
I am Luke Sacher, the videographer-
Carole Langer is the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton winning interviewer and producer/director.
You can find us both on the iMDB.
Thanks for tuning in and for your kind comment!
Here's the 1996 bio of Jerry that we produced- Alan King narrates:
Jerry Lewis... The Last American Clown
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@@soapbxprod - pardon me but is the interviewer reflected in the mirror? By her headdress it appears she's a nun?
@@bethanyanderson1745 very funny, but i dont think thats a real person. not sure what it is
@loupasternak - you're correct. That "nun" never moved or blinked. Lol. Must have been a late night when I wrote that post. Chuckle.
Based on the couple of minutes that I rewatched, I wonder if it's the control panel to an appliance? You know how our brains are wired to find /create faces... I actually wasn't attempting to be humorous- wouldn't dare to try on a Jerry Lewis video.
A great man and I love him. You critics - did you hear the part about him helping Sammy Davis Jr. and his family get treated with dignity? A flawed man, just like you and me.
I love him too!
Hes a jackoff
He's lying about helping Sammy. That was Sinatra.
Rob Denaro That’s so well documented that it’s hard to believe that Jerry would try and claim the credit.
Wonder if he went to JFK inauguration like Sinatra did. Dean Martin refused to go as Sammy was not allowed with his white wife. Dean is the one that did things without fanfare.
Jerry lewis was at his best,during this interview.this man controls every aspect of his life.you cant get enough of this talented man.jerry seemed extremely subdued during this interview.
Possessed, perhaps…
He's full of bull.....
He looks very wary to me. Like he's assessing her & what to say & how to come across . I usually get that vibe off people who present a front, then when they relax , they're the real version of what they are. And it's usually not nice.
😂😂You can’t be serious. The ONLY reason he become famous, is because of The Rat Pack.
@@ThePriceIsRisingyou know nothing about him apparently lol
He has the deadest eyes, no warmth & at the start he's weighing her up & assessing the heck out of her ( as a person, not for any sexual reason, it's not that kind of look). I think he's quite an unhappy man. He reminds me of 50's comedian Tony Hancock, who could be a really mean drunk.
No one had a higher estimation of himself than Jerry
did. Maybe it was necessary.
He wanted to be the Sinatra of comedy- Dino had both their numbers... all he wanted was "nice and easy does it"
@@soapbxprod - did you work with Dean Martin?
Sitting there waiting to explode 😂
💨🤖💨...
You didn’t protect your own sons, how devastating for them, you left them all entirely out of your will.
this is a man I'd love to just hear stories from. just let him go off and tell me all he knows. he came from such a crazy, fantastic, trying, up and down era. much respect. this interview is outstanding. always wanted to see more from the rat pack documentary and now I have....thank you!
Thank you! I just wrote this article for EDGE NJ Magazine, based on this interview- you might enjoy it:
www.edgemagonline.com/interview_jerry_lewis.htm
We produced Jerry's 1996 A&E Biography,
narrated by his old friend Alan King. Here's a link to the show:
th-cam.com/video/1VA13r1-MVM/w-d-xo.html
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions
Yes, like the stories about how he sexually abused women.
On his face, you can see the expression of chronic pain.....simply....
@@puppydog12000
Right!!
You definitely can. He was 70 here and this was right around the time when he was dealing with very serious back pain, which he sadly continued to deal with for the rest of his life. Back pain is no joke.
Thank you for making us laugh, we need this now. RIP
Thanks for tuning in, Jetta- and leaving a kind word.
I never had a lotta love for Jerry but I really respect him and his knowledge of this business, it’s like Pete Rose in a way, Pete will not be in the hall of fame but I like to hear him talk about baseball more than anyone I’ve ever seen. Jerry knows everything about it. I mean everything.
There are better heroes. Nobody's perfect but I draw the line at abuse.
yeah being a serial abuser is always a good look, he was a horrid man.
@@fynnandfynner The technology of the business is the only part of him I was interested in. His personality was horrible.
@@ronniebishop2496 Agreed.
After the breakup with Dean Martin his eyes have definitely gone out. It makes me so much tenderness. They shouldn't have left each other ...
It makes me so much tenderness how does that work
Really enjoyed his memories of his grandmother. My grandmothers were also very influential in my life. Jerry was complex. So are a lot of people. Thanks for uploading this interview. I certainly don't mind this more serious side. Human.
Literally LOL!
Did nobody have the courage to tell him - to take the damn gum out of his mouth -- NOBODY does an interview with gum in the mouth. SMH
John Lennon did it. Paul McCartney did it.
One of the few interviews I've seen of Jerry where he expounds on his answers and opens up. Most of his interviews he rarely says more than 3 word answers. Even David Letterman. Hardly talks at all. This is a gem.
Terrific Interview!!
Thank you, Richard! There's also a great stage interview with him...
we produced his 1996 Biography™... I spent two years locked in my Avid room with everything from Jerry's personal archive... it was the best two years of my life!
Luke Sacher (shooter of this interview)
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
Jerry Lewis... The Last American Clown
@@soapbxprod
He was a very multi talented artist .
We loved him from the beginning in France and very celebrated him.
I think American people are very hard with him.
They should be proud to have had such a great artist
They didn't deserve him.
@@daniellebourgade8701 Thank you! I think it is so true. Your country appreciated the auteur him and his sophisticated, meticulous talent and work. Thank you for loving him and he should have been respected more in our country. Europeans have culture and art right. ( I am American, born in Netherlands, and love both)
Lewis is very hard to understand and the reason is most likely that he was undiagnosed bipolar. He shows all the outward signs. People expect him to be perfect. He brought great joy to millions for decades. So if he was a bit of an asshole in his private life, maybe that's just the price that had to be paid.
@Dominus Vobiscum 😁😁😁
Dominus Vobiscum 😂
How he became famous I'll never know. He's about as amusing as a dose of the clap.
Are you kidding - you must have never seen his earlier interviews, dick cavit. Old age, however, makes one less humorous for sure.
😂😂😂 I agree. Apparently he’s not a nice person.
Talent.
HOW WOULD YOU KNOW?
Dean Martin that is how.
Best most honest candid interview of Jerry Lewis I've ever seen. Jerry looks like a real "road warrior" here. RIP Jerry. You could be a hardass but we loved you madly.
i feel sorry for him and his kids ,its so sad when son and farther don't love each other ,its horrible
Love Al Jolson,, build the room( know your first laugh and build to your last laugh), sammy Davis(timing).
Great Heart! Amore VITA!
JazzyL Thank you JazzyL! Jerry... the best ever! Please look on our uploads page, lots of great Jerry clips there...
JazzyL
He was a very moody individual even his sons said when he came home from work they never knew what kind of mood he was in.Cutting his sons out of his wiil WHY lots of problems there .What yu see in these interviews is not the real Jerry Lewis but a man who thinks very highly of himself with an ego size of Mt.Everest.Its sad but I guesse that's what fame and money does to yu .
I collected money for Jerry's kids when I was12, lol! Love and grew up with his comedy! Agree that he wasn't the most humble man, but often it may seem like we creative types are narcs but really its we need to stick up for ourselves, we just do so with mucho intensity.
Thanks for taking time to share your thoughts, truly appreciated. :)
Brilliant
He seems like he was such a kind man.
He was, I saw him in person. I know people who worked with him
and he was a very real person. In this interview he’s at his dressing room for Damn Yankees. He was 70 the cast loved him. My friend was in Damn Yankees.
I have a brother-in-law who behaves like this. The world revolves around him too.
I have every film he's made I love them all but there was something dark about him money can do that to people it is such a shame he seemed mad on life and without leaving anything for his grandchildren is just so sad
Amen!! :D
Jerry Lewis means the WORLD TO ME ALWAYS HAS ALWAYS WILL I,M 7O YEARS OLD AND BEEN A FAN SINCE CHILDHOOD I THANK YOU ALL WHO HAVE SHARED JERRY ON YOU TUBE YOUV,E MADE ME VERY HAPPY THANKYOU GOD BLESS JERRY AND I WANT TO WISH HIM A FABULOUS BIRTHDAY 89 ON MARCH 16TH XXXXX MARGARET.MARY.
Hello Maggie! Thanks so much. We have lots and lots of great Jerry stuff on our channel- with and without Dino. I love him so much. His son Anthony is a dear friend of mine, he knows how much I love him!
We shot this interview as part of our 1996 Biography of Jerry- here it is... Alan King is the narrator...
th-cam.com/video/1VA13r1-MVM/w-d-xo.html
We can't upload it ourselves due to contract obligations. It was nominated for the last Cable Ace Award for Best Documentary before cable networks were admitted to the Emmys.
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions Inc.
***** Hi thankyou for answering me I adore Jerry and have loved watching his videos on TH-cam from the beginning
***** from Jerry, s childhood, his Beloved parents, his marriage to Patti,their lovely boys, Gary, Ronnie, Scotty, Chris, Anthony, & Joseph who are all grown men now. It was good to know Gary was successful with his band The Playboys Jerry must be so proud. Please convey all my love to Jerry and sons and families,
Maggie Foster
Hello Maggie, thanks a LOT- that's awfully kind. I only speak to Anthony on a regular basis, but I'll sure let him know.
Disinherited his family, and left everything to his last wife, and their adopted daughter. Was a bully to them all every day of their lives, and here puts out what a great principled guy he is ... was rude to everybody he ever worked with and rude to his fans. A real jerk.
Sure! You were there when all of the stuff that you are talking about happened!
It is all documented. He was an amazing talent and I loved his work so much growing up, but sadly, he was not a good kind or happy man ...
He was a kind man! He spent all of his life trying to help children! What are you talking about? The documentation that you are talking about is named gossip!!! He wasn't perfect! Of course! But who is? You? It is very easy to judge others when you don't live their life! You know what I really think? I think that there is a huge lack of compassion and understanding in this world! :( so sad...You don't know why people make the decisions they make! I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't like for someone to judge your life then you shouldn't judge someone else's life!
I appreciate that you a dedicated fan. But what I am saying is the truth ...
Sure our Lord and Savior! You know the truth! LOL ;) Lots of people think they know the truth...that's why we are in so much trouble nowadays! Socrates said: " All I know is that I know nothing! " I wish certain people would learn something from that!
He dumped his wife, the mother of his sons and gave her very little money in the divorce. One of his sons committed suicide and he disinherited the rest. His second wife and adopted daughter inherited everything. Comic genius but a horrible man.
Forgot: Has an illegitimate daughter who is a homeless person he never even tried to reach out to
People are really complicated. He might have been totally deluded in how he saw himself as a knight in shining armor for victims, but I loved his movies anyway. Like Woody Allen, he may have been a perv, but I still love his movies for the most part.
When he was alive, the media fawned over him. Hugh Hefner too.
Today March 16th 2015 has arrived and I want to convey to JERRY LEWIS A TRULY HAPPY 89TH BIRTHDAY AND MANY MANY MORE AND TO SAY JERRY THANKYOU FOR BEING YOU , YOU ARE THE ICING ON THE CAKE HAVE A *BRILLIANT DAY LOTS OF LOVE ALWAYSXXXX
Thanks for remembering, Maggie!
If you are on Facebook, please feel free to send a friend request-
I can steer you to a number of Jerry Lewis fellow fans like us!
Best Wishes,
Luke Sacher
Praeses & Soapbox Productions
RIP
huge ego
+dontrell iommi Huge heart as well.
+angle a obtuse He's a big teddy bear of a MENSCH! :)
dontrell iommi Jerry the dickhead
I have always adored Jerry, and I have heard countless times that he had a huge ego. I think, I would not care a twit about this man, or love to hear him talk, if he did not have a huge ego. He is a special person in so many ways, not the least of which is his wit, his humor, his articulateness. He was a high school dropout. Self-educated, one who lived life to the fullest and gave the world so much. If anyone deserves a huge ego, he does. Yet I see in the midst of what others call a huge ego simplistic humility and honesty. He just openly speaks about what he knows. I have watched every interview of him on youtube and never grow tired of him. I doubt I could listen to any of his dissenters for two minutes without yawning.
cubomania3, Yes because you know instead! You are also calling another person idiot only because she disagrees with you! Do you really think that you are a better person?? People should stop judging others and examine their life instead!
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.
Makes a lot of sense your comment Ive been wondering what he was like when the cameras weren't rolling cheers mate 👍👍
@@patrickdoherty3758
No problem pal.
I worked with him closely between
1988 to 1989 - everything I say is backed up by ALL the members of my crew firsthand.
Peace buddy.
@@shaunigothictv1003 I believe you mate 💯 it suits jerry to ground that his humor was more adult, like he wasn't know to be that warm playful type, good memories I hope buddy 👍👍 from the uk
@@patrickdoherty3758
Back at ya from minnesota✌️
your comments are repetitive.
I don’t know what to think,
Maybe it’s best sometimes to just see who
Celebrities on stage,
We are all in perfect.
He did make me laugh so thanks for that Jerry.
OMG, Jerry gets very dramatic about everything. Dang! Thanks for posting! Jerry was a childhood favorite of mine in the 60s to the 70s. Then we heard about all the issues in his family's life after his death, not a good look. But he was a big star and its always interesting to see what happens with someone you watched a lot in your life. Many celebrities' from this period had issues, some even killed themselves (and their family!).Very interesting that this includes the raw footage. The interviewer reminds me of a trans non comedic Woody Allen if he would have done that in 1995.