Everyone complains the Academy Awards are too long every year. Well, in 1959, the telecast was too short and host Jerry Lewis had to fill. In our video today, Jerry gives his version of what happened. Ignore the part where he says he brought Humphrey Bogart up from the audience. That didn't happen. Bogey died in '57.
This is a two-minute excerpt from a 2.5 hour interview of Mr. Lewis that was conducted ten years ago for the Archive of American Television. I haven't had the chance yet to watch the entire thing but what I have seen has been quite interesting and it might give some folks a different perspective on Jerry. If you'd like to watch some or all of the whole video, you can do that on this page. Too bad they never got Dean to sit for one of these.