Sunday night Jerry Lewis is the television star everyone wants to know.
You've got to start at the bottom.
I know, that's where I am at the bottom.
That's a perfect place to start.
Some women would kill to have dinner with him.
I said how did you get this number?
I don't know what else to do, I've been trying to call you.
Some men would go to jail just to be seen with him.
You're a tough man, Rupert.
You've got to be in this business.
Academy Award winner Robert De Niro is Rupert Pupkin.
And I'm going to be 50 times more famous than you.
Then you're going to have idiots like you playing in your life.
That's right.
And nobody knows who he is.
What did you say your name was?
Rupert, his name is uh, uh, Pupkin.
What is your real name?
That's my real name, Rupert Pupkin.
By 10.30 Sunday night everyone will know him as the King of Comedy.
But look, I figure it this way, better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.
For the first time on television, Jerry Lewis and Robert De Niro star in The King of Comedy.
Outrageous humor Sunday night, 8.30 on TVO.