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Through interviews with many of his contemporaries as well as Jerry Lewis himself, Shawn Levy examines the career of a man who almost overnight went form obscurity to colossal fame; from affable teenage schnook to hostile, egomaniacal bully; from a beloved philanthropist to the figure of scorn who inspired the MDA protest group Jerry's Orphans. This tortured, angry, hilarious man is the gag-skeleton in our national closet.

"...this scrupulous, skillful, incessantly fair account should go a long way toward restoring Lewis to his proper place in the entertainment firmament."

Kirkus, 02/01/1996

"'King of Comedy' is written out of a deep immersion in Lewisiana. The book reflects its subject not just in its energy and drive but also in its inelegance and sprawl....Mr. Levy succeeds at rekindling curiosity and excitement about an entertainment giant....Spot-check him on individual topics...and you find the author striving to be scrupulously fair."

Michael Sragow, New York Times Book Review, 06/09/1996

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