Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Who is the actor and comedian who was born Joseph Levitch in 1926, in Newark New Jersey and was noted for his slapstick type comedy films, with Dean Martin as the straight guy?"
...Jerry Lewis was born in 1926 of Russian Jewish parents. His father was an MC and vaudeville entertainer, his mother a piano player for a radio station. He is noted for his double act in films with Dean Martin, with whom he made several films. When this partnership broke up, he became a solo performer and director with such films as 'The Nutty Professor' (1963); he is also a scriptwriter and producer and a staunch, long time supporter and chairman of the national Muscular Dystrophy Association, for which he has raised $2.6 billion with his MDA Telethons over the years.
