Old Time Radio Blog

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were an amazing team in the late 1940's and into the early and mid 1950's. Their nightclub act, which turned into a radio show, which led to movies and TV, was a huge hit. Typically, their act featured Dean singing (a great crooner) and setting up jokes for Jerry. Very often, the scripted jokes were a little corny but funny, but the best laughs came when Jerry went off script and left Dean cracking up with an ad lib.