Editing Jerry Lewis (section)

==In popular culture==
Between 1952 and 1957, [[DC Comics]] published a 40-issue comic book series with Martin & Lewis as the main protagonists, titled ''[[The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Adventures of Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis |url=https://www.comics.org/series/862/ |website=Comics.org |access-date=27 September 2024}}</ref> They continued the series under the new title ''The Adventures of Jerry Lewis'' after the team split up, running until issue #124 in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=he Adventures of Jerry Lewis |url=https://www.comics.org/series/1243/ |website=Comics.org |access-date=27 September 2024}}</ref>

In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the character of [[Professor Frink]] is based on Lewis's Julius Kelp from ''The Nutty Professor.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paWsDhzeaN8| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/paWsDhzeaN8| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|title=Hank Azaria Discusses basing Professor Frink on Jerry Lewis|work=FoundationINTERVIEWS |date=December 4, 2015|publisher=Archive of American Television|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Lewis himself would later voice the character's father in the episode "[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]." In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Lewis is parodied in the form of a recurring character named Mr. Director (voiced by series writer [[Paul Rugg]]), who initially appears as a comedy director whose appearance and mannerisms are based around those of Lewis, complete with frequent exclamations of faux-Yiddish. While he is typically depicted as a caricature of Lewis, on some occasions Mr. Director has also been seen as a caricature of [[Marlon Brando]] and as a birthday clown, although still retaining the voice and mannerisms inspired by Lewis.

In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter recreates Lewis's 'chairman of the board' scene from ''The Errand Boy''. Comedian, actor and friend of Lewis, [[Martin Short]], satirized him on the series ''[[Second City Television|SCTV]]'' in the sketches "The Nutty Lab Assistant", "Martin Scorsese presents Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees!", "The Tender Fella", and "Scenes From an Idiots Marriage",<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgwVdVmazYA| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/GgwVdVmazYA| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|title=Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysees!| date=August 21, 2017|publisher=CBC Television|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|title=Jerry Lewis as Tender Fella|publisher=CBC Television}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|title=Jerry Lewis in Scenes From an Idiots Marriage|publisher=CBC Television}}</ref> as well as on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''{{'}}s "[[Celebrity Jeopardy!]]."<ref>{{cite episode|url=https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jeopardy/n10924|title=Celebrity Jeopardy!|season=22|number=8|series=Saturday Night Live|date=December 7, 1996|publisher=NBC Television|access-date=February 7, 2018|archive-date=February 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207114213/http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/jeopardy/n10924|url-status=live}}</ref>
Also on ''SNL'', the Martin and Lewis reunion on the 1976 MDA Telethon is reported by [[Chevy Chase]] on ''[[Weekend Update]]''.<ref>{{cite episode|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzwQ_7Gv4k0| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/LzwQ_7Gv4k0| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Weekend Update Martin and Lewis Reunion|series=Saturday Night Live |date=September 1976|season=2 |publisher=NBC Television|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Comedians Eddie Murphy and [[Joe Piscopo]] both parodied Lewis when he hosted SNL in 1983. Piscopo also channeled Jerry Lewis while performing as a 20th-century stand-up comedian in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''; in the second-season episode "The Outrageous Okona", Piscopo's Holodeck character, The Comic, tutors android Lieutenant Commander [[Data (Star Trek)|Data]] on humor and comedy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Joe Piscopo Looks Back With... Laughter|url=https://www.startrek.com/article/joe-piscopo-looks-back-with-laughter|website=www.startrek.com|date=June 17, 2011|access-date=June 5, 2019|archive-date=June 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605150123/https://www.startrek.com/article/joe-piscopo-looks-back-with-laughter|url-status=live}}</ref> Comedian and actor [[Jim Carrey]] satirized Lewis on ''[[In Living Color]]'' in the sketch "Jheri's Kids Telethon."<ref>{{cite episode|title=Jheri's Kids Telethon|season=1 |number=6|series=In Living Color|date=May 10, 1990|publisher=Ivory Way Productions, FOX Television}}</ref> Carrey had an uncredited cameo playing Lewis in the series ''[[Buffalo Bill (TV series)|Buffalo Bill]]'' on the episode "Jerry Lewis Week."<ref>{{cite episode |title=Jerry Lewis Week |series=Buffalo Bill|season=2|number=2|date=January 5, 1984|publisher=Stampede Productions, NBC Television}}</ref> He also played Lewis, with impersonator [[Rich Little]] as [[Dean Martin]], on stage. Actor [[Sean Hayes (actor)|Sean Hayes]] portrayed Lewis in the made-for-TV movie ''[[Martin and Lewis (film)|Martin and Lewis]]'', with [[Jeremy Northam]] as Dean Martin.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=IMDB |title=Martin and Lewis (2002 TV Movie) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318908/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast |access-date=July 21, 2018 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309054850/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318908/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast |url-status=live }}</ref> Actor [[Kevin Bacon]] plays the Lewis character in the 2005 film ''[[Where The Truth Lies]],'' based on a fictionalized version of Martin and Lewis.<ref>{{cite news|title=Where The Truth Lies|first=Peter|last=Bradshaw|date=December 2, 2005|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/dec/02/1|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=February 6, 2018|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802044437/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/dec/02/1|url-status=live}}</ref> In the satiric novel, ''Funny Men'', about singer/wild comic double act, the character Sigmund "Ziggy" Blissman, is based on Lewis.{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

John Saleeby, writer for ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]'' has a humor piece "Ten Things You Should Know About Jerry Lewis."<ref>{{cite web|first=John|last=Saleeby|date=August 16, 2001|title=Ten Things You Should Know About Jerry Lewis|website=acidlogic.com|url=http://www.acidlogic.com/jerrylewis.htm|access-date=February 11, 2018|archive-date=July 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726170151/http://www.acidlogic.com/jerrylewis.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In the animated cartoon ''[[Popeye]]'s 20th Anniversary'', Martin and Lewis are portrayed on the dais.<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Popeye's 20th Anniversary|date=1954|publisher=Paramount Pictures}}</ref> The animated series ''[[Animaniacs]]'' satirized Lewis in several episodes. The voice and boyish, naive cartoon character [[SpongeBob SquarePants (character)|SpongeBob SquarePants]] is partially based on Lewis, with particular inspiration from his film ''The Bellboy''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/news/spongebob-inspiration-stephen-hillenburg|title=How Famous Comedians Inspired Stephen Hillenburg to Create SpongeBob SquarePants|date=December 18, 2018|first=Brad|last=Witter|website=biography.com|access-date=September 22, 2019|archive-date=September 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922024202/https://www.biography.com/news/spongebob-inspiration-stephen-hillenburg|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Story of How Spongebob Squarepants Made it to Air|date=December 4, 2015|first=Karl|last=Smallwood|website=Today I Found Out|url=http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/spongebob-squarepants-made-air/|access-date=September 22, 2019|archive-date=September 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922024200/http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/spongebob-squarepants-made-air/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1998, The [[MTV]] animated show ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' had a clay-animated fight to the death between Dean Martin and Lewis. In a 1975 re-issue of ''[[MAD Magazine]]'' the contents of Lewis's wallet is satirized in their on-going feature "Celebrities' Wallets."{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Lewis, and Martin & Lewis, as himself or his films, have been referenced by directors and performers of differing genres spanning decades, including [[Andy Warhol]]'s ''[[Soap Opera (1964 film)|Soap Opera]]'' (1964), [[John Frankenheimer]]'s ''[[I Walk the Line (film)|I Walk the Line]]'' (1970), [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[The Godfather (film)|The Godfather]]'' (1972), [[Randal Kleiser]]'s ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'' (1978), [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]]'s ''[[In a Year of 13 Moons]]'' (1978), [[Robert Zemeckis]]'s ''[[Back to the Future]]'' (1985), [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Four Rooms]]'' (1995), [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s [[Pulp Fiction]] (1994), [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' (2002), ''[[Hitchcock (film)|Hitchcock]]'' (2012), [[Ben Stiller]]'s ''[[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 film)|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]]'' (2013), [[Jay Roach]]'s ''[[Trumbo (2015 film)|Trumbo]]'' (2015), ''[[The Comedians (2015 TV series)|The Comedians]]'' (2015), ''[[Baskets (TV series)|Baskets]]'' (2016), ''[[The Sopranos]]'' (1999), ''[[Seinfeld]]'' (1996, 1998), and ''[[The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel]]'' (2017, 2018).{{Citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Similarly, varied musicians have mentioned Lewis in song lyrics including, [[Ice Cube]], [[The Dead Milkmen]], [[Queen Latifah]], and [[Frank Zappa]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/jerry+lewis|title=Lyrics containing the term: jerry lewis|website=www.lyrics.com|access-date=March 17, 2019|archive-date=August 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802003759/https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/jerry+lewis|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[hip hop music]] band [[Beastie Boys]] have an unreleased single "The Jerry Lewis", which they mention, and danced to, on stage in Asheville, North Carolina in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-jerry-lewis-the-untold-story-of-the-beastie-boys-single-that-never-was-20140807|title='Jerry Lewis': The Untold Story of the Beastie Boys Single that Never Was|first=Peter|last=Relic|date=August 2, 2014|work=RollingStone Magazine|access-date=February 11, 2018|archive-date=February 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180212005219/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-jerry-lewis-the-untold-story-of-the-beastie-boys-single-that-never-was-20140807|url-status=dead}}</ref> In their film ''Paul's Boutique—A Visual Companion'', clips from ''The Nutty Professor'' play to [[Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science|"The Sounds of Science"]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paulsboutiqueavc.com/|title=Paul's Boutique—A Visual Companion|website=paulsboutiqueavc.com|access-date=July 13, 2018|archive-date=August 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814200443/http://www.paulsboutiqueavc.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[iOS 10]] includes an [[auto-text]] [[emoji]] for 'professor' with a Lewis lookalike portrayal from ''The Nutty Professor''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-Are-Nerds-Or-So/237817|title=Professors Are Nerds Or So Your iPhone Would Have You Believe|first=Fernanda|last=Zamudio-Suaréz|date=September 16, 2016|work=SF Chronicle|access-date=May 4, 2018|archive-date=May 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505065857/https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-Are-Nerds-Or-So/237817|url-status=live}}</ref>
The word "flaaaven!", with its many variations and rhymes, is a Lewis-ism often used as a misspoken word or a person's mis-pronounced name.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33U4HwcH1kU| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/33U4HwcH1kU| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|title=Jerry Lewis & the Muppets|date=2007|publisher=MDA Telethon}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In a 2016 episode of the podcast ''[[West Wing Weekly]]'', [[Joshua Malina]] is heard saying "flaven" when trying to remember a character's correct last name. Lewis's signature catchphrase "Hey, Laaady!" is ubiquitously used by comedians and laypersons alike.<ref>{{cite AV media|date=1993 |title=Jerry Lewis Letterman First Time CBS|publisher=Worldwide Pants, CBS Television}}</ref>

[[Sammy Petrillo]] bore a coincidental resemblance to Lewis,<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.free-press-release.com/news-rick-saphire-reports-on-the-death-of-his-friend-and-client-sammy-petrillo-1250483378.html |title=Sammy Petrillo, the comedian who was often mistaken for entertainer Jerry Lewis in the 1950s, has died in a New York hospital |first=Rick |last=Saphire |date=August 17, 2009 |access-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-date=October 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004170429/http://www.free-press-release.com/news-rick-saphire-reports-on-the-death-of-his-friend-and-client-sammy-petrillo-1250483378.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Abramson |first=Dave [a.k.a. "Dave the Spazz" (professional pseudonym)] |url=http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/21/petrillo.html |title=Sammy Petrillo Speaks Out (1992 interview with Petrillo) |date=1998 |website=[[WFMU]].org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710071618/http://www.wfmu.org/LCD/21/petrillo.html |archive-date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> so much so that Lewis at first tried to [[catch and kill]] Petrillo's career by signing him to a talent contract and then not giving him any work. When that failed (as Petrillo was under 18 at the time), Lewis tried to [[blackballing|blackball]] Petrillo by pressuring television outlets and then nightclubs,<ref>Rutt, Todd. "Duke Mitchell & Sammy Petrillo: Those Two Fireballs of Fun", ''[[Psychotronic Video]]'' No. 11, Fall 1991, pp. 23–32</ref> also threatening legal action after Petrillo used his Lewis impersonation in the film ''[[Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla]]''.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/arts/television/24petrillo.html?_r=1 Havesi, Dennis. "Sammy Petrillo, an Actor and Nightclub Comedian, Dies at 74"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308131637/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/arts/television/24petrillo.html?_r=1 |date=March 8, 2021 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 24, 2009, p. D8</ref>

Over the years, countless actors and performers have regularly impersonated or portrayed Lewis in various tribute shows, most notably Nicholas Arnold, Tony Lewis, David Wolf, and Matt Macis.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tribute to Jerry Lewis comes to the Grand |url=https://kingstonthisweek.com/2013/06/10/tribute-to-jerry-lewis-comes-to-the-grand |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=kingstonthisweek |language=en-CA |archive-date=May 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520045906/https://www.kingstonthisweek.com/2013/06/10/tribute-to-jerry-lewis-comes-to-the-grand |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Martin and Lewis Tribute Show |url=http://martinandlewistribute.com/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=martinandlewistribute.com |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530152929/http://martinandlewistribute.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=David Wolf |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4535344/ |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=IMDb |language=en-US |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530152925/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4535344/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-03-15 |title=Eric Richardson and Matt Macis: The Crooner and the Comic |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/eric-richardson-and-matt-macis-the-crooner-and-the-comic |access-date=2023-05-30 |website=Time Out New York |language=en-US |archive-date=May 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230530152926/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/eric-richardson-and-matt-macis-the-crooner-and-the-comic |url-status=live }}</ref>