“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 ...
CHERRY HILL — Rick Saphire was just 6 years old when he was personally introduced to the late comedian and iconic entertainer Jerry Lewis. “I met him in 1953,” Saphire said. “My uncle (Ernest ...
Rick Saphire, who managed Jerry Lewis for the last decade and a half of his life, says parsing fact from fiction about the comedy legend is no easy feat. “I always used to say that the two worst ...