{"id":657926,"date":"2017-08-21T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=657926"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:19:11","slug":"publicist-jerry-lewis-comedian-telethon-host-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/08\/publicist-jerry-lewis-comedian-telethon-host-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars pay tribute to Jerry Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrities including Jim Carrey and Jamie Lee Curtis honored the late comic legend.<\/b>
\nTributes to Jerry Lewis poured in from around the world Sunday, including from top comics who said they owed their success to him.
Jim Carrey said he wouldn\u2019 t be the superstar he is today without Lewis\u2019 trail-blazing brand of physical comedy.
\u201cThat fool was no dummy, \u201d Carrey tweeted, along with a picture of Lewis. \u201cJerry Lewis was an undeniable genius an unfathomable blessing, comedy\u2019s absolute! I am because he was!\u201d
Dick Cavett \u2014 who was a writer for \u201cThe Jerry Lewis Show\u201d in the early 1960s long before he became a legendary talk-show host \u2014 agreed.
\u201cSo long, Jerry. You made me howl with laughter, \u201d Cavett tweeted. \u201cAnd you paid me to write for you, proving you REALLY had a zany streak. Miss ya, man, bad.\u201d
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis fondly recalled growing up with Lewis, who was a pal of her mom, Janet Leigh.
\u201cJerry Lewis loomed large in my family. Many movies with my mom & he made home movies with Janet and Tony, \u201d she tweeted, referring to her father, Tony Curtis. \u201cHe made me and many laugh.\u201d
Rose Marie, herself a comedy pioneer, said she lost a great friend Sunday.
\u201cJerry Lewis was an angel to me. Loved him & will never forget what he did for me during one of the worst times in my life. RIP, Love Roe, \u201d the 94-year-old, best known for her work on \u201c The Dick Van Dyke Show, \u201d tweeted.
Even comics who came to fame decades after Lewis\u2019 peak in the said their craft wouldn\u2019 t have been the same without him.
\u201cWe lost one of the great ones today, \u201d \u201cWill & Grace\u201d star Sean Hayes tweeted, \u201cpossibly the greatest. Jerry Lewis was one of my comedy heroes & was a gigantic inspiration to me. I am so grateful to have shared some valuable time with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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