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Line 1: {{~~work~~creator}} {{creatorstub}} [[File:Jerry_Lewis_7402.jpg\|frame]] '''[[Jerry Lewis]]''' (born Joseph Levitch in 1926) iswas an American comedian, noted for the wacky style of his comedy and~~, more recently~~ for his [[Long Runner\|long-running]] annual [[Telethon\|telethons]] for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Lewis is generally considered to have been at his peak in [[The Fifties]] (when [[Comedy Duo\|he worked with]] [[Dean Martin]]) and [[The Sixties]]. [[Trope Maker]] for a lot of things. He died on August 20, 2017. ~~----~~ ~~=== Tropes associated with Jerry Lewis: ===~~ [[Name's the Same\|Not to be confused with]] musician [[Jerry Lee Lewis]]. {{creatortropes}} * [[Adam Westing]]: he is one of the few who use this trope for ''drama''. * [[Ambiguously Jewish]]: Almost every Lewis character, or even any knockoff character ''based on'' one of Lewis's characters, will come off as this. Line 12 ⟶ 16: * [[Man Child]]: Not ''quite'' the [[Trope Codifier]], but damn close. * [[Missing Episode]]: ''[[The Day the Clown Cried]]'' is a famous example. It exists but is locked up due to legal issues. * [[Oh God, ~~With~~with the Verbing!]]: Trope Maker * [[Spiritual Successor\|Spiritual Successors]]: Pee-wee Herman, [[Adam Sandler]], Gilbert Gottfried... * [[Telethon]]: Trope <s>maker</s> codifier. The first telethon, broadcast by NBC in April 1949, was a fundraiser for the [[Damon Runyon]] Cancer Research Foundation. * [[Variety Show]]: The ''[[~~Colgate Comedy Hour (TV)\|~~Colgate Comedy Hour]]''. * [[Yiddish Asas a Second Language]] {{reflist}} Line 24 ⟶ 28: [[Category:Directors]] [[Category:Jerry Lewis]] [[Category:Comedian]] [[Category:Comic Actors]] [[Category:Musicians]] [[Category:Producers]] [[Category:Screenwriters]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] [[Category:Presenters]] [[Category:Names to Know in Comedy]]