LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jerry Lewis, the high prince of low-brow comedy on stage and in film as well as a fund-raising powerhouse with his annual Labor Day telethon, died on Sunday at the age of 91, ...

“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, directed and ...

For over half a century, the tale of a missing movie has puzzled Hollywood: what happened to Jerry Lewis’ infamous dark comedy “The Day the Clown Cried”? Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale ...

Dinnertime could be an unruly affair at the Lewis household. "I can't tell you how many dinners I sat at that I couldn't eat because I was laughing so hard," Christopher Lewis, the son of the famed ...

The passing of screen legend and comedy icon Jerry Lewis was received with an outpouring of sadness online Sunday as celebrities took to social media to express their condolences. Lewis died of ...

DALLAS — Christopher J. Lewis stood at his booth in the midst of a sprawling exhibit hall earlier this year as 2,000 physicians, researchers, pharmaceutical representatives, journalists and rare ...

Jerry Lewis remains one of Hollywood's most influential comedy stars of all time – but the actor and director was also well known for his explosive personality away from the cameras. Lewis was never ...

(Reuters) - Jerry Lewis, who parlayed his distinctive style of low-brow comedy into a long-running movie and stage career and became a fixture on the American calendar with his Labor Day charity ...

Martin and Lewis were one of the most popular comedy duos of all time. When they met in 1945, Dean Martin was a nightclub singer, while Jerry Lewis was performing a comedy shtick lip-synching to ...