{"id":5292,"date":"2006-09-14T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T11:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T00:44:47","slug":"dean-martin-appreciation-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5292","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Lewis on working with Dean Martin: “It was the Katzenjammer Kids.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Peter Bogdanovich’s Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors<\/a>\"\"<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Bogdonavich asks Lewis: “What was it like those first four years, before the movies? From 46 to 49?”<\/p>\n

Lewis responds:<\/p>\n

It was wonderful. It was the Katzenjammer Kids. We had so much fun, it’s ridiculous. We played football in a suite in Philadelphia, broke windows, lamps. Like two monkeys on a fucking high. We just played. And he played golf and I’d write. Then I said to him: “I’ve written some wonderful shit here, we’ve got to work on it.” “Later.” Uh-oh. “No, no later – because I’ll quit and then you won’t have any good shit to do.” “Later.” And I knew not to push him. He wanted to play golf during the tournament in Philadelphia, I didn’t push him. We left there, we went to Chicago, I said, “Now you’re going to practice.” And he did. But the thing of it was this – impossible to understand was – I would write him a bit that would run four minutes, spotting the positioning on the stage and the geography within that bit. I would do it that night and he was right on the fucking money. And he had a favorite line, he said, “You only have to tell me once.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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