With The Patsy, Jerry Lewis is generous enough to give the whole Dream Factory credit for the gags.
With the film, Lewis seems more willing than ever to acknowledge his own hostility toward being dismissed as a kids’ entertainer.
Of all Jerry Lewis’s films, The Nutty Professor may be the closest to achieving an unfussy plea for pathos.
With The Bellboy, Jerry Lewis understands and subverts his own formal omniscience.
em>The Ladies’ Man is a wild, exuberant reflection of Jerry Lewis’s diverse comic tones.
The self-reflectivity of The Errand Boy is so pervasive it truly becomes the content of the film.