Happy Birthday to the Multifaceted Genius

Jerry Lewis dipping Betty Hutton with long time work colleague Dean Martin 

"I've had great success being a total idiot" 
That is non other than funny man Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch) who turns 85. The slightly unpolished comedian is basically either loved or loathed, I personally don't love him but I do find his funny faces and the over the top ways about him amusing, well because I laugh easy. He said once that people hated him because he was a "multifaceted wealthy genius", and pulling faces is like comedy 101, its in there with throwing pies, basic, everyone can do it, so not everyone is going to find that particular brand of comedy funny. He is known for his collaboration with rat packer Dean Martin which ran from the mid 40s to mid 50s, Lewis was the outrageous part of the duo and Dean of course was the straight, together they hosted the Colgate Comedy hour in the early 50s and made a little under 20 pictures together. After 10 years their partnership went stale due to much of the praise going to Jerry. With Martin gone Jerry was left to carry on solo, he made comedies like The (original) Nutty Professor (1963), The Patsy (1964) and others. Then in the 80s he played Jerry Langford in Scorsese's King of Comedy, he as the King and Robert De Niro plays the deranged wannabe comedian, who literally holds Jerry hostage to get a moment in the spot light (Great Movie). He has been entertaining people with his zany, slapstick humor since he was 5 and even after loads of health problems over the past decade or so, he is still active in show business, like a trooper.

Ahh good old hilarity, Jerry  Lewis with Tony Curtis