I always loved hearing Jerry Lewis sing in his own legitimate voice, as Dean always said. 💕 JL ... My favorite. He made his mark. He will be missed.

My heart is aching tonight cause he left us today. But the smile will come back when I think of all the jjoy he have given the world.

@enochsimpkins5281

5 жыл бұрын

I have love in my heart for Jerry Lewis

Thanks! Love hearing Jerry sing normally.

@AbrahamDiner

7 жыл бұрын

Much better when he sings without belting out the lyrics. This is much better than his lp JUST SINGS.

Arr that's sad - I loved the Jerry Lewis Show and him singing Smile at the end is what stands out in my memory.

@judithjackson4667

10 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@stevemichaels9852

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, that was the first time I ever heard this song. I loved Jerry Lewis ♥️😢

When I was still going to school years ago, e.g. in the 1970s and early 1980s when the Jerry Lewis Labor Day MDA Telethon was still on the air on Labor Day every year in September, the song "smile" its theme song, and that telethon itself reminded me that the school was about to begin in two days, and the summer vacation was about to end.

I love Jerry Lewis.

Just can't smile right now Jerry because you have left us but you will be in my heart forever. There will never be another like you. With Love, your billions of fans...

@raymondshutt1289

7 жыл бұрын

Longshotsblues Cried myself when I came across this tonight. Well said.

Love this, and Jerry always....so sad to lose him, but I'm so glad his poor tired body isn't in pain anymore....Rest In Peace Jerry

Just learned that Lewis died today, age 91. I had forgotten how super talented and multifaceted he was as an artist. I think I may have seen this clip on TV when I was a kid, and seeing it now seems to bring back memories of how much I loved Jerry Lewis. This makes my heart melt. R.I.P., Jerry... thank you for bringing joy and caring to humanity for so long.

@lPllLcMr

Жыл бұрын

the magic of death is: that even though it is painful to those who remain we get the joy to rediscover our favourite performers in a new light.

Jerry gave us so much. He gave and gave and gave. He loved loved to work hard... you can see some of his accomplishments here... The Not-So-Nutty Professor In addition to his varied entertainment, philanthropic and family responsibilities, Jerry has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, where he taught a graduate course in film direction. The Total Film Maker, a book based on recordings of 480 hours of his classroom lectures, was published by Random House in 1971. And since the book hit the stands, it became mandatory reading in every university and film school in the United States, as well as Continental Europe. The Films of Jerry Lewis book is one of the most comprehensive studies of one man’s body of work in the motion picture industry. The “Real” Jerry Lewis Behind the pratfalls, the jokes and the public persona, Jerry Lewis is a devoted family man who always carries snapshots of his family in his pockets for luck. The entertainer has a daughter, Danielle, born in 1992, in addition to five sons - Gary, Ron, Scott, Chris and Anthony - and several grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. A frequent MDA Telethon highlight is a performance by Jerry's number-one son and his band -- Gary Lewis and the Playboys -- and the Telethon cameras regularly catch Sam and Danielle sitting in their customary front row seats. It’s also no coincidence that the official Jerry Lewis Web site, www.jerrylewiscomedy.com, is hosted by Jerry’s son, Chris. Jerry is famous for his love of children, and the immense popularity he enjoys among them is hardly surprising. “I get paid for doing what children are punished for,” he reasons. “In doing this, I can help them get rid of their hostility quotient.” Or, as one 14-year-old fan put it: “Jerry is just a nice big kid who makes us laugh. Kids love him because he’s really one of us.” Jerry summed it up himself when he said - in response to the countless well-wishers who wrote to commemorate his 76th birthday in March 2002: “76? You got the birth date right, but the age is wrong! I’m only 9 … remember? Always have been, always will be.” The motto that best expresses Jerry’s ongoing love affair with humanity is this: “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” --- Humanitarian Awards “Jerry Lewis is a man for all seasons, all people and all times. His name has, in the hearts of millions, become synonymous with peace, love, and brotherhood.” The late Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, then a congressman from Wisconsin, penned those words in 1977 in the conclusion of his nomination of Jerry for the Nobel Peace Prize. Never in the history of show business has an entertainer been so honored. In 1984, the government of France officially recognized that country's legendary admiration of Jerry Lewis by giving him its two most distinguished awards. First, Lewis was made a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters, and was extolled by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang for his “human qualities and generosity. You are a child’s friend, and a model for adults.” Later that same year, Jerry was inducted into the Legion of Honor by the decree of President Francois Mitterand. Legion membership honors individuals whose accomplishments demonstrate extraordinary public service. Back in the United States, on June 8, 1985, the Defense Department presented Jerry with its highest civilian award - the Medal for Distinguished Public Service. The citation that accompanies the engraved gold medal reads, in part: “His service has had a profound effect on the youth of our country, on men and women in uniform today and their children, and on those children who shall one day serve our country in its defense.” In December 1996, the American Medical Association presented its Lifetime Achievement Awards to Jerry and MDA “for significant and lasting contributions to the health and welfare of humanity.” Jerry was honored for his decades of dedication to MDA, becoming only the fifth person in AMA history to receive this award. As National Chairman of MDA, Jerry has devoted two-thirds of his lifetime to the effort to eradicate neuromuscular diseases. His unflagging, year-round work for this cause has endeared him to millions. Under Jerry’s leadership, the Association has been - and will continue to be - the recognized leader in the worldwide fight against these diseases. Legendary Entertainer One of the most successful performers in show business - with worldwide box office gross receipts of his films in excess of $800 million - Jerry Lewis has received global acclaim for his unique ability and style with both comedy and drama. Best known for his comedic genius, he's considered among the elite in the history of comedy. He has an exceptional feel for comic timing and possesses all the other unique qualities of a great clown. Critic Harriet Van Horne described Jerry’s screen persona as “a sort of witless genius,” while Hollywood director Leo McCarey called Lewis “the Pied Piper of the business, the heir to the mantle of Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.” In 1991, Jerry received two impressive honors as the show business industry recognized his lifetime of achievement. On January 13, he received the Comic Life Achievement Award during cable television’s annual ACE Awards. The National Association of Broadcasters paid tribute to Jerry by inducting him into the Broadcast Hall of Fame on April 17. Jerry was inducted into the International Humor Hall of Fame in 1992. And on February 22, 1998, Jerry received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Comedy Hall of Fame. In 1999, legendary film director Martin Scorsese presented Jerry Lewis with a career Golden Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival. Lewis was honored as “an extraordinary example of the total filmmaker: scriptwriter, director and protagonist of his films, therefore fully responsible for his work.” He kept giving and giving and giving to us. He loved so much. We are so grateful to him and his life. POSITIVE CRITICS ON JERRY LEWIS Exhibit A from 1950: "For all its madness, there is method in the Lewis artistry. If he mugs outrageously and takes stage falls with an elementary aplomb, his antics are seasoned by a real sense of the comic and a rare appreciation of the non sequitur." --Jack Gould, The New York Times, 9/18/1950 Sixty-five years later, here's Exhibit B: Lewis is an artistic genius of visual and scenographic inventiveness, comic fury, technical originality, and philosophical perspective; but he’s also a furious, reckless, regressive, id-plumbing revealer of the depths of his character by way of demands on his body. And this full-spectrum artistic commitment - from the ideal to the carnal, from the sophisticated to the crude, from the pursuit of an artistic conception to the force and price of personal drive and desire - is his crucial connection to, and inspiration of, the new world of young filmmakers. -- Richard Brody, The New Yorker 10/8/15 ----- Positive critics/evaluation -Long great article appreciating everything jerry Lewis www.criterion.com/current/posts/4845-jerry-lewis-1926-2017 Updates, 8/27: “For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to the total sense of freedom in Jerry’s work,” writes Jim Carrey for Time. “I’ve never been particularly grounded in the real world myself, and I love the idea of rebellion against reality. . . . Every artist is fed by the people who came before them. In the same way that Jimi Hendrix learned from Chuck Berry, I learned from Jerry. He is part of my makeup. I don't do exactly what he did, but his freedom and his disrespect for the norm is there in my work.”

@jerrylewisthekid5479

3 жыл бұрын

You can write anything you want about Jerry Lewis. Unfortunately for too many Americans, Jerry will always remain an idiot without talent. Jerry Lewis was from another planet. And he didn't deserve all the hatred they threw at him. We all have flaws. He had the courage not to hide. Most of all, he showed his flaws because he was a brave man. As an Italian and a European I consider him "my immense hero".

@pamelahawley4844

3 жыл бұрын

@@jerrylewisthekid5479 I love him, too. What a beautiful writeup you posted on his honesty. I thought the same too. He really shared how he lived, and so transparent... no PR machine. He lived who he was. I miss him and I wasn't really alive during his time. I am grateful to know him now. I am glad the was your hero!

@jerrylewisthekid5479

3 жыл бұрын

@@pamelahawley4844 Yes, he was a special being. He had an immense love for Life and for Art. An absolute genius. He deserved more love than was taken from him. Despite his eternal smile as a child for me he will always be a very tender sad clown. The more I read about him, the more I admire him.

ironically I cry every time I watch it.. so cute!!! thanks for posting

PERFECT! AS Ever!

Joker! King of comedy! Errand Boy!

I love this clip! And I so wish Bobo the Clown puppets had been made for the public to buy. I want him!! :(

@Donazify

10 жыл бұрын

I wish they had too! Jerry used Bobo for a few skits in his tv shows, besides the scene in The Errand Boy of course. One of the other times he had Bobo in a skit, is in a video on my channel as well, if you haven't already seen it yet. :)

@HisEternalDaughter

10 жыл бұрын

Could you, perhaps, "freeze frame" - or whatever needs to be done - to get me the little clown full face/body stretching his arms out? Is that possible? I don't know how to do these things. :(

@bobthetvfan

8 ай бұрын

Two of these were auctioned from Jerry's estate in 2018 and brought in over $2500. But I'm like you; I wish these were available to the public, too.

so beautiful....inside and out

SMILE THOUGH YOUR HEART IS ACHING -smile EVEN THOUGH ITS BREAKING.... when there are clouds in the sky you'll get by -light up your face with gladness -hide every trace of sadness

cant stop thinking of u wish u was still here miss u so much jerry xx

What a legacy from beautiful Jerry Lewis .... Jerry gave us so much. He gave and gave and gave. He loved loved to work hard... you can see some of his accomplishments here... The Not-So-Nutty Professor In addition to his varied entertainment, philanthropic and family responsibilities, Jerry has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, where he taught a graduate course in film direction. The Total Film Maker, a book based on recordings of 480 hours of his classroom lectures, was published by Random House in 1971. And since the book hit the stands, it became mandatory reading in every university and film school in the United States, as well as Continental Europe. The Films of Jerry Lewis book is one of the most comprehensive studies of one man’s body of work in the motion picture industry. The “Real” Jerry Lewis Behind the pratfalls, the jokes and the public persona, Jerry Lewis is a devoted family man who always carries snapshots of his family in his pockets for luck. The entertainer has a daughter, Danielle, born in 1992, in addition to five sons - Gary, Ron, Scott, Chris and Anthony - and several grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. A frequent MDA Telethon highlight is a performance by Jerry's number-one son and his band -- Gary Lewis and the Playboys -- and the Telethon cameras regularly catch Sam and Danielle sitting in their customary front row seats. It’s also no coincidence that the official Jerry Lewis Web site, www.jerrylewiscomedy.com, is hosted by Jerry’s son, Chris. Jerry is famous for his love of children, and the immense popularity he enjoys among them is hardly surprising. “I get paid for doing what children are punished for,” he reasons. “In doing this, I can help them get rid of their hostility quotient.” Or, as one 14-year-old fan put it: “Jerry is just a nice big kid who makes us laugh. Kids love him because he’s really one of us.” Jerry summed it up himself when he said - in response to the countless well-wishers who wrote to commemorate his 76th birthday in March 2002: “76? You got the birth date right, but the age is wrong! I’m only 9 … remember? Always have been, always will be.” The motto that best expresses Jerry’s ongoing love affair with humanity is this: “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” --- Humanitarian Awards “Jerry Lewis is a man for all seasons, all people and all times. His name has, in the hearts of millions, become synonymous with peace, love, and brotherhood.” The late Secretary of Defense Les Aspin, then a congressman from Wisconsin, penned those words in 1977 in the conclusion of his nomination of Jerry for the Nobel Peace Prize. Never in the history of show business has an entertainer been so honored. In 1984, the government of France officially recognized that country's legendary admiration of Jerry Lewis by giving him its two most distinguished awards. First, Lewis was made a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters, and was extolled by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang for his “human qualities and generosity. You are a child’s friend, and a model for adults.” Later that same year, Jerry was inducted into the Legion of Honor by the decree of President Francois Mitterand. Legion membership honors individuals whose accomplishments demonstrate extraordinary public service. Back in the United States, on June 8, 1985, the Defense Department presented Jerry with its highest civilian award - the Medal for Distinguished Public Service. The citation that accompanies the engraved gold medal reads, in part: “His service has had a profound effect on the youth of our country, on men and women in uniform today and their children, and on those children who shall one day serve our country in its defense.” In December 1996, the American Medical Association presented its Lifetime Achievement Awards to Jerry and MDA “for significant and lasting contributions to the health and welfare of humanity.” Jerry was honored for his decades of dedication to MDA, becoming only the fifth person in AMA history to receive this award. As National Chairman of MDA, Jerry has devoted two-thirds of his lifetime to the effort to eradicate neuromuscular diseases. His unflagging, year-round work for this cause has endeared him to millions. Under Jerry’s leadership, the Association has been - and will continue to be - the recognized leader in the worldwide fight against these diseases. Legendary Entertainer One of the most successful performers in show business - with worldwide box office gross receipts of his films in excess of $800 million - Jerry Lewis has received global acclaim for his unique ability and style with both comedy and drama. Best known for his comedic genius, he's considered among the elite in the history of comedy. He has an exceptional feel for comic timing and possesses all the other unique qualities of a great clown. Critic Harriet Van Horne described Jerry’s screen persona as “a sort of witless genius,” while Hollywood director Leo McCarey called Lewis “the Pied Piper of the business, the heir to the mantle of Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd.” In 1991, Jerry received two impressive honors as the show business industry recognized his lifetime of achievement. On January 13, he received the Comic Life Achievement Award during cable television’s annual ACE Awards. The National Association of Broadcasters paid tribute to Jerry by inducting him into the Broadcast Hall of Fame on April 17. Jerry was inducted into the International Humor Hall of Fame in 1992. And on February 22, 1998, Jerry received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Comedy Hall of Fame. In 1999, legendary film director Martin Scorsese presented Jerry Lewis with a career Golden Lion award at the Venice International Film Festival. Lewis was honored as “an extraordinary example of the total filmmaker: scriptwriter, director and protagonist of his films, therefore fully responsible for his work.” He kept giving and giving and giving to us. He loved so much. We are so grateful to him and his life. POSITIVE CRITICS ON JERRY LEWIS Exhibit A from 1950: "For all its madness, there is method in the Lewis artistry. If he mugs outrageously and takes stage falls with an elementary aplomb, his antics are seasoned by a real sense of the comic and a rare appreciation of the non sequitur." --Jack Gould, The New York Times, 9/18/1950 Sixty-five years later, here's Exhibit B: Lewis is an artistic genius of visual and scenographic inventiveness, comic fury, technical originality, and philosophical perspective; but he’s also a furious, reckless, regressive, id-plumbing revealer of the depths of his character by way of demands on his body. And this full-spectrum artistic commitment - from the ideal to the carnal, from the sophisticated to the crude, from the pursuit of an artistic conception to the force and price of personal drive and desire - is his crucial connection to, and inspiration of, the new world of young filmmakers. -- Richard Brody, The New Yorker 10/8/15 ----- Positive critics/evaluation -Long great article appreciating everything jerry Lewis www.criterion.com/current/posts/4845-jerry-lewis-1926-2017 Updates, 8/27: “For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to the total sense of freedom in Jerry’s work,” writes Jim Carrey for Time. “I’ve never been particularly grounded in the real world myself, and I love the idea of rebellion against reality. . . . Every artist is fed by the people who came before them. In the same way that Jimi Hendrix learned from Chuck Berry, I learned from Jerry. He is part of my makeup. I don't do exactly what he did, but his freedom and his disrespect for the norm is there in my work.” Updates, 9/2: In a remembrance for the Guardian, Martin Scorsese recalls working with Lewis on King of Comedy: “Jerry Langford was an uncomfortable role for him to play, because he was skirting the edges of his own life in absolutely every scene. Sometimes it went beyond that: he was wearing his own clothes, he was playing scenes where he was often expressing his own feelings about showbusiness and celebrity, and at times you didn’t know if you were seeing Jerry Langford or Jerry Lewis. And through it all he was, needless to say, a consummate professional. It was a remarkable and moving experience to watch him at work, improvising with Bob De Niro and the other actors and with his old friend Freddie de Cordova-I felt like I was watching a virtuoso pianist at the keyboard. And he knew his way around live television so well that I asked him to direct some of the actual on-air sequences for The Jerry Langford Show.” Positive critique on Broadway www.nytimes.com/1995/03/13/theater/theater-review-damn-yankees-finally-jerry-lewis-is-on-broadway.h

Jerry Lewis is my favorite human being in the entire world I really wish I could've met him before he died and he makes my day every day all day everyday I really wish I could have the collection of Jerry Lewis movies and also soh s*** when I was a little girl The only thing I ever wanted on my birthday was to watch a Jerry Lewis tells on every day my entire birthday weekend

"Jerry Lewis had huge heart indeed"!!! 💖💖💖👼👼👼

Rip jerry Lewis 1926-2017.

HERMOSO. SIEMPRE ME ACOMPAÑÁ ;-GRACIAS POR TU FUERZA , ALEGRÍA... HERMOSO .🍃🌺🍃🌺🍃

Ok mom I listened to it 💙

I don't know whose version I like better--Dean's *or* Jerry's? At any rate, it would become Jerry's signature song :) BTW that touching scene reminds me of The Errand Boy

@HisEternalDaughter

9 жыл бұрын

I don't know either. Both are beautiful and touching and break my heart.

@dino4ever472

9 жыл бұрын

HisEternalDaughter I've got Dean's version of "Smile" which I plan to upload one day :)

@se7enofnein

5 жыл бұрын

I love Errand Boy ❤️

I love this song, and I always loved Jerry Lewis. He was definitely my favorite growing up ♥️♥️

Que guapo, so handsome! Por favoooor, me mata este himbre 😍

@Vamosdeshopping

8 жыл бұрын

Hombre

Lovely 🌹 😘

Sweet.

😢😢😢❤❤❤💔💔

His special performance with His real own voice, makee to

@benjaminborda5930

Жыл бұрын

Make me to retiran toy youn age, because it's lyrics Is so REAL yo feel I start to Silencer cry

❤️❤️❤️❤️

❤

Tje.best.recipe.smile.when.you.are Feeling.blue❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂

Do you have a better image resolution? thanks for sharing

Jerry Lewis..El payaso inmortal..no tenia mala voz..algo aprendio de Dean Martin. Una cancion hermosa..

😔😔😔😔😔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

I never really thought that he was all that funny....BUT i do like this part of his TV show

I love Jerry but isn't this a bit below him to sing to somebody's hand?

@Donazify

4 жыл бұрын

He talked to puppets before. I guess you've never seen The Errand Boy? Personally I think it's quite cute. Also Jerry's song is playing in the background and he is only talking to and playing with the puppet. It was a Family show for kids.

@catherinekille7046

3 жыл бұрын

Is that any worse than making love to your hand, Richie?

@RHodge317

3 жыл бұрын

@@catherinekille7046 Then unloading all over your face

@pamelahawley4844

3 жыл бұрын

He’s communicating with a sweet puppet character that evokes the shyness, sadness , encouragement needed with each one of us. He’s loving us through the puppet who represents us all. If you were too embarrassed to be encouraged or admit you were down, you could just feel and relate to the puppet. It’s very sweet, very connected and loving. I hope that helps!

@kellycaviness4850

Жыл бұрын

Jerry is so adorable. I just love him!