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The Jerry Lewis Show

  • TV Series
  • 1967–19691967–1969
  • 1h
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6.2/10
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The Jerry Lewis Show (1967)
  • Comedy
  • Music
Jerry Lewis hosted the variety show that primarily consisted of skits often featuring characters he made known in his movies. Occasionally guests like the Osmond Brothers worked musical numb... Read allJerry Lewis hosted the variety show that primarily consisted of skits often featuring characters he made known in his movies. Occasionally guests like the Osmond Brothers worked musical numbers into the show's stories.Jerry Lewis hosted the variety show that primarily consisted of skits often featuring characters he made known in his movies. Occasionally guests like the Osmond Brothers worked musical numbers into the show's stories.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
65
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  • Stars
    • Jerry Lewis
    • Bill Richmond
    • Henry Corden
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    • Jerry Lewis
    • Bill Richmond
    • Henry Corden
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    • 5User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis
    • Self - Hostas Self - Host
    52 episodes52 eps • 1967–1969
    Bill Richmond
    • Selfas Self…
    6 episodes6 eps • 1967
    Henry Corden
    Henry Corden
    • Actoras Actor…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1967–1968
    Kaye Ballard
    Kaye Ballard
    • Selfas Self…
    4 episodes4 eps • 1968–1969
    The Osmonds
    The Osmonds
    • Themselvesas Themselves
    4 episodes4 eps • 1968–1969
    Hal Bell
    • Hot Dog Vendoras Hot Dog Vendor…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1967–1968
    Walker Edmiston
    Walker Edmiston3 episodes3 eps • 1968–1969
    Damian London
    Damian London
    • Minor Roleas Minor Role
    3 episodes3 eps • 1968–1969
    Gilchrist Stuart
    • Guest Exiting Hotelas Guest Exiting Hotel…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1967–1969
    Nanette Fabray
    Nanette Fabray
    • Actressas Actress…
    1 episode1 ep • 1967
    Stephen Dunne
    Stephen Dunne
    • Self - Assistant directoras Self - Assistant director…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1967
    Ray Kellogg
    Ray Kellogg
    • Doormanas Doorman…
    3 episodes3 eps • 1967–1968
    Michele Lee
    Michele Lee
    • Selfas Self
    3 episodes3 eps • 1968–1969
    Nancy Ames
    • Selfas Self…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1968–1969
    Dorothy Provine
    Dorothy Provine
    • Lauraas Laura…
    1 episode1 ep • 1968
    Harry Morgan
    Harry Morgan
    • Selfas Self…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1967–1968
    Barbara Feldon
    Barbara Feldon
    • Selfas Self
    2 episodes2 eps • 1967–1968
    Jack Webb
    Jack Webb
    • Selfas Self…
    2 episodes2 eps • 1967–1968
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      Referenced in I Dream of Jeannie: Fly Me to the Moon (1967)
    • Soundtracks
      Smile
      (Theme from "The Jerry Lewis Show")

      Written by Charles Chaplin

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    Absolutely awful
    Jerry Lewis is revered in the film industry as the inventor of the 'video follow', a device which is now standard equipment on big-budget movies: it gives film directors an instant video playback of each film take, without the time-consuming and expensive process of printing daily rushes. While I give Lewis credit for this innovation, I find his talents as a performer and director quite minor. The only Lewis performance which impressed me was his dramatic turn in 'The King of Comedy' (which, to Lewis's credit, apparently he largely improvised). In the rest of his filmography, there are occasional flashes of extreme originality, such as the typewriter sequence in 'Who's Minding the Store?'. Apart from such sporadic delights, Lewis remains for me someone who walks on the sides of his feet while screeching "Hey, lady!".

    Jerry Lewis starred in two self-named TV series. The first one (1963) combined a chat-show interview format with comedy sketches. Advance word predicted that this series was incredibly bad. A few hours before the premiere episode was aired live, a protester was seen outside the ABC-TV studio with a sign reading 'Ban the bomb before it goes off!' This same wisecrack applies just as well to Jerry Lewis's 1967 TV show.

    'The Jerry Lewis Show' ('67 edition) used a variety format ... but was slow, dull and self-indulgent with it, featuring some very bad artistic decisions. The main visual motif was a fingerpost: an elaborate depiction of a hand with one pointing finger, and a sign or label to tell us what the finger is pointing towards. On 'The Jerry Lewis Show', each sketch or musical number began with a rostrum camera panning slowly across a brightly-coloured drawing of a long and elaborately designed arm, ending in a fingerpost with the name of the guest star who was about to perform, or the title of the sketch we were about to witness. There was an attempt to vary the designs of the fingerposts to match the acts which they introduced: for instance, the Osmonds (a quartet at this point) were introduced with a shot of four intertwining fingerposts, each a different colour, converging towards a caption reading 'THE OSMONDS'. All that effort to such little effect.

    Tone-deaf Jerry Lewis saw fit to afflict us with his musical 'talents' in some weird production numbers. One episode featured a dreadful song called 'An Epicurean Delight', in which Lewis and two guest stars, all dressed as chefs, cavorted round a banquet table and sang(?) about how to create the perfect meal whilst getting drunk on cooking wine.

    This short-lived series featured Jerry Lewis in awful comedy sketches which were so generic that any performer could have done them just as well ... or just as badly. Examples: a fingerpost points to a caption reading 'A TOMB WITH A VIEW', which leads into a sketch featuring Jerry and a woman guest-star as archaeologists opening an Egyptian tomb. (She precedes him with an aerosol spray which we're meant to think is an air freshener, but she's really killing a fly.) Another sketch: Jerry is sent to a lumber camp to sack a brawny hot-tempered foreman named Brannigan, and then Jerry must take Brannigan's place in charge of a crew of hostile lumberjacks. Have another: Jerry and a male guest star (doing a bad imitation of Dean Martin) play jobless vaudevillains. The other guy decides to do a ventriloquist act, and he bullies Jerry into pretending to be his dummy. He draws vertical lines on Jerry's chin to make his mouth look like a vent-figure's jaw.

    Just occasionally in this brief series, Jerry aspired to something greater. In one long sketch with no dialogue, Jerry played a schlub who's locked in a penny arcade after closing time. He spots a Ray Bradbury-ish waxwork fortune-teller with a sign reading 'The Power of Positive Thinking'. This inspires Jerry to make various things happen just by pulling faces and making wishes. Of course, all the things he wishes for are stupid. This sort of silent character-study reminds me of Ernie Kovacs and the brilliant sketches he performed as his silent Everyman character named Eugene. But Kovacs's 'Eugene' sketches were very funny and featured some clever technical innovations, whereas Jerry Lewis (here, at least) isn't funny at all.

    I suppose that the real culprits on 'The Jerry Lewis Show' are the inept scriptwriters. But, as one-man-band Jerry Lewis was the producer who hired them, he must ultimately take the blame for their presence.

    'The Jerry Lewis Show' is totally unworthy of revival. Its badness doesn't even attain the level of so-bad-it's-good campiness. It's just bad, full stop.
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    • Release date
      • September 12, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Die Jerry Lewis Show
    • Filming locations
      • NBC Studios - 3000 W. Alameda Avenue, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Jerry Lewis Productions
      • Lewis-Teram
      • National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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      1 hour
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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