VIDEO: Sneak Peek - PBS's AN EVENING WITH JERRY LEWIS

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Taped in the Showroom at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in November 2012, AN EVENING WITH Jerry Lewis: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS presents the legendary performer live on stage, telling stories of his eight-decade career through narrative and musical performances, with video montages from his television and film appearances - including rare, never-before-seen clips from his personal and private vaults. Scheduled as a tribute to his 87th birthday in March, AN EVENING WITH Jerry Lewis: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations beginning March 2, 2013 (check local listings).

Lewis recently directed the Broadway-bound NUTTY PROFESSOR Musical, which premiered last summer at TPAC in Nashville, TN. The late Marvin Hamlisch composed the music for the production.

During the course of the hour, Lewis tells jokes and reminisces about his life from his earliest days working with his father, a vaudeville entertainer who taught him song, dance and pantomime skills, to his first solo gig "Record Act," in which he exaggeratedly mimed the lyrics to songs on a phonograph. But everything changed when he met a young crooner named Dean Martin in Atlantic City and together they became the most popular comedy duo in entertainment history.

Between the years of 1950-1955 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin took America by storm. Everything they touched turned golden: hit films, a top-rated Sunday night television show and sold-out live performances in theaters nationwide. Many of the greatest hits from their nightclub act, TV appearances and movies are highlighted on screen as Jerry tells stories through words and song of those magical days. He discusses famous skits from the television show, some of which produced national catchphrases including "Melvin?," "Don't lick it," "I like it, I like it" and "Hey Laady."

For ten years Martin and Lewis ruled the world and left behind a Lifetime of laughs. But after 16 successful films, over two dozen top rated television shows and thousands of sold-out performances, on July 25, 1956 - ten years to the day of their first show together - Martin and Lewis broke up.

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