Jerry Lewis was an American comedian, actor, singer and humanitarian who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy", with a career lasting over eight decades. He appeared in more than 59 motion ...

“All you have to do,” says author Shawn Levy, who wrote King of Comedy, the definitive Jerry Lewis biography, is to give the plot summary. “If you just tell people: Jerry Lewis wrote ...

A half-century ago, French film critics proclaimed Jerry Lewis a master auteur for the raucous comedies he wrote, directed and starred in. At the time, ...

In the biography King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, author Shawn Levy wrote that Lewis made "a few overtures" towards reconnecting with Martin after their TV reunion but was ignored ...

Rick Saphire, who managed Jerry Lewis for the last decade and a half of his life, says parsing fact from fiction about the comedy legend is no easy feat. “I always used to say that the two worst ...

"It was not a Dean Martin biography; it was not the Jerry Lewis biography. It was the incredible story of these two guys, how they started, what they became together and how they split up and went on.