When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

In the late 1940s they quickly rose to national prominence first with their popular nightclub act next as stars of their own radio program. The theaters were pitched to investors that were not movie exhibition veterans pitching owning a movie theater as a "mom and pop" operation. Lewis made no appearance on the 2011 MDA Telethon.

Jerry Lewis (born March 16 1926) is an American comedian actor singer film producer screenwriter and film director. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946 forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis. On February 22 2009 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Lewis the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.