Robert De Niro played a man who kidnaps Lewis' character, a talk show host named Jerry Langford. "I had a goddamn ball doing 'King of Comedy,'" Lewis told the New York Post in August 2016.

Jerry Lewis and the Time the Oscars Ran 20 Minutes Short The three-time host of the Academy Awards found himself working hard to fill the extra time in 1959 as he roasted a competing show's poor ...

But Jerry Lewis was the world’s first rock star of imbecility. If you watch one of his comedy routines with Dean Martin from the ’40s and ’50s, you see something amazing.

Lewis showed a distinctly moody side in his widely praised role as late-night talk show host Jerry Langford, kidnapped by Robert De Niro’s aspiring comic in Martin Scorcese's 1982 drama The King ...

After his break with Martin, Lewis headlined the odd variety special and was an interim host of “The Tonight Show” between Jack Paar’s departure and the arrival of Johnny Carson. (Temporary ...

Lewis, who died Sunday at age 91, was paid a reported $40 million by ABC to host 40 episodes of the show -- and that was back in 1963.

He was 91. In a show-business career that spanned more than 70 years, Lewis at various times was said to be the highest-paid nightclub comic, television entertainer and film director in the world.

WHEN Jerry Lewis appeared on Johnny Carson's ''Tonight Show'' several weeks ago, he managed, before I flicked off my set in mid-interview, to plug his latest movie, talk about how popular he is in ...

No one would sniff at all the dollars Jerry Lewis raised for muscular dystrophy: a couple of billion during his 45-year reign as host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association Telethon.