Dick Cavett — who was a writer for “The Jerry Lewis Show” in the early 1960s long before he became a legendary talk-show host — agreed. “So long, Jerry.

As a solo act, Lewis was frequently very funny as a guest on talk shows and variety shows, and so in the early 1960s, ABC had the idea to give Lewis his own show, which became one of the most ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Jerry Lewis was first and foremost a funny fellow, creating his manic man-boy character during the 1940s in nightclubs and at Catskill Mountain resorts. In the 1960s, the madcap ...

Jerry Lewis, who died Sunday at his Las Vegas home at 91, has been remembered in recent decades as a curmudgeonly philanthropist who raised as much as $2 billion in telethons for muscular dystrophy.