Comedians
Jerry Lewis Net Worth
Jerry Lewis's Net Worth as of 2024
$50 Million
Jerry Lewis, real name Joseph Levitch, was born to parents of Russian-Jewish descent on 16 March 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Although Jerry was initially known for working in a comedy duo along with Dean Martin, his partner for a decade, Lewis was also an actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. Jerry passed away in 2017.
So just how how rich was Jerry Lewis? Sources estimate that Jerry had a net worth of $50 million, which he has managed to save during his multi-talented career in the entertainment industry, which spanned spanned over 70 years.
Jerry Lewis Net Worth $50 Million
It is certainly true that Jerry inherited his talent from his father Daniel Levitch, known as Danny Lewis, a famous actor and performer in his own right. Rae Lewis was Jerry`s mom, a piano player for New York City radio station WOR, and Danny`s music director, too. Jerry Lewis started performing at a early age: he was five years old when he sang “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” in Borscht Bet, New York`s nightclub in the Catskill Mountains. When Jerry was 15 years old, he left high school and decided to seek a career in performing. A comedy routine called Record Act was founded, which focused on miming and mouthing the lyrics of various well known songs. However, at first it did not go well, and Jerry was forced to think of something new to attract the audience, but it did start to build Jerry Lewis’ net worth.
He met his future comedy partner Dean Martin in 1945 when Dean was known as a singer. They started working together and developing a comedy project, showing up at nightclubs, including eventually the famous Copacabana in New York City. The duo was very successful, as within a couple of years the partners earnings rose from less that $200 per week to $30,000 at the Copacabana, which obviously added considerably to Jerry Lewis’ net worth. They went on to appear in almost 20 films together, with Jerry developing slapstick to Martin’s straight character.
After splitting from Martin in 1956, Jerry Lewis launched a solo career including singing, releasing single “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” and “It all Depends on You”, as well as an album entitled “Jerry Lewis Just Sings”. Although these were successful, Jerry was more interested in films, and was soon producing and directing, as well as acting, including introducing new techniques the most important of which became video assist. Popular films over a period of more than 15 years included “The Delicate Delinquent”, “Rock-A-Bye Baby”, “The Geisha Boy”, “Cinderfella”, “The Bellboy”, and “The Nutty Professor” among almost 50, several of which he directed, produced and/or wrote, remaining active and popular to his last appearance in “Max Rose” in 2016.
Of interest is that Jerry Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for a number of years, where his students included future famous directors Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
What is also significant is that Jerry Lewis received many awards, to mention just a few: BAFTA (1983), Goldene Kamera Honorary Award (2005), and Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2011), the French Chevalier, Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, and American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, among many others.
Jerry Lewis further increased his net worth with incomes from publishing a few books, too: The Total Film-Maker (1971), Jerry Lewis: In Person (1982), and Dean & Me (A Love Story) published in 2005 along with James Kaplan.
In his personal life, Lewis was married to Patti Palmer from 1944 to 1982, during this time the couple welcomed six sons, one of them being adopted. Later, Lewis married SanDee Pitnick in 1983 and they adopted a daughter. Despite a number of health concerns, including heart attacks, Jerry has been a long-time supporter of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, including hosting an annual telethon. Jerry died of natural causes on 20 August 2017 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Comedians
Graham Norton Net Worth
Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is a famous Irish comedian, actor, commentator, TV presenter and writer-columnist who has a net worth of $30 million. He was born on April 4, 1963 in Clondalkin, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, but he was raised in Bandon. Today Norton is one of the most recognised faces on British TV, having begun in show business 1992. Graham Norton is also known as a great businessman: in 1998 he established a production company “So Television” with Graham Stuart. This company still produces Norton’s chat shows, such as the famous “So Graham Norton” and “The Graham Norton Show”. When Norton decided to sell this company in 2012, he received about $28 million.
Graham Norton Net Worth $30 Million
Although this amount of money composes a huge part of Graham’s net worth, he also earns millions of dollars thanks to his acting and writings; today Norton’s income reaches $5 million per year. Some portion of his net worth was received in 2007, when Graham Norton with Claudia Winkelman hosted the first annual Eurovision Dance Contest. Later he hosted the 2008 contest in Glasgow too. Since 2009, Graham Norton has been known by people in the United Kingdom as a BBC commentator of the famous Eurovision Song Contest .
Graham Norton has been successful not only as a Eurovision commentator and businessman, but also as an actor. The first time he appeared on screen was in 1996 as Father Noel Furlong in the movie “Father Ted”. Later Graham played Mr. Puckov in “Another Gay Movie”, voiced plants on BBC in “Rex the Hunt” and even had the opportunity to play himself in a TV show called “Absolutely Fabulous: Gay”. He has also been the host of a myriad number of TV shows, and Graham’s voice has been heard on the BBC radio station “BBC Radio 2” since October 2, 2010, when he took over from Jonathan Ross.
Graham Norton has written 4 books: the first was called “London before the Blitz, 1906-40: from the coming of the motor-car to the outbreak of war” and the last one was called simply and shortly: “So me”. During his career this famous actor and writer has received some awards, the first in 1999 as the “Gay Entertainer of the Year”. He has since received the same award 5 times, plus the BAFTA Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance for his TV shows “So Graham Norton” and “The Graham Norton shows”, the last one being in 2012.
Graham Norton is usually seen driving his Lexus hybrid RX 450h. The car was stolen from him a few years ago, but the owner was able to find it in Wandsworth, West London thanks to English police and to the unique vehicle recovery device which was fitted to it. When Graham doesn’t drive his car and has some free time, he spends it with his two dogs – a terrier cross named Madge (it was named after famous singer Madonna) and labradoodle Madge. Both of his dogs Norton adopted from the UK charity called “Dogs Trust”.
Comedians
Brittany Furlan Net Worth
Brittany Furlan was born on the 5th September 1986, in Perkasie, Pennsylvania USA, and is an actress, comedian and internet personality, probably best known to the world for being one of the most followed females on the Vine application. She is also recognized as an actress, starring in the role of Sara in “We Are Your Friends”. Besides that, she has also appeared in the TV show “America’s Next Top Model”.
Have you ever wondered how rich is Brittany Furlan, as of late 2017? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that Furlan’s net worth is as high as $800,000, an amount earned through her successful career in the world of entertainment, active since the mid- 2000s.
Brittany Furlan Net Worth $800,000
Brittany, of mixed ancestry, since she has Italian and American ancestry, grew up in her hometown, but soon after finishing her education moved to the big city of Los Angeles, California.
Brittany`s popularity comes from a website Vine, on which users post short comedy videos. Currently, Brittany has more than 1000 posts, and a fan base of almost 10 million, which makes her one of the most popular female “Viners”, second only to Lele Pons, who has 11 million fans.
Thanks to her popularity on Vine, Brittany launched her career on television, and so far she has appeared in more than 20 films and TV series.
Starting in 2009 with an appearance in the TV series “Reality Hell”, and two years later she appeared in the film “L.A. Paranormal Activity”. In 2015, her career reached a whole new level, as she began to feature in more popular films, including “We Are Your Friends” with Zac Efron and Emily Ratajkowski, and the following year she appeared in the film “Dreamland”, alongside Beverly D` Angelo and Lilli Birdsell, consistently boosting her net worth.
Most recently, she was selected for the role of Angela Gambazzo in the film “Random Tropical Paradise” (2017), appearing next to Bryan Greenberg, Brooks Wheelan and Spencer Grammer, which certainly added to her net worth. Furthermore, Brittany will appear in the film “Airplane Mode”, which is currently in post-production, but without a release date, and will also feature in the comedy film “The Unicorn”, scheduled for a 2018 release.
Thanks to her talents, Brittany has earned several nominations, including for Teen Choice Awards in the category of Choice Web: Viner in 2015, among others.
Regarding her personal life, there is no information about Brittany Furlan in the media, except the fact that she is currently in a relationship with famous drummer Tommy Lee. Her current residence is in Los Angeles, California. In addition to her career on Vine, she is also active on other social networks such as Twitter and Instagram, on which she has over 1.7 million followers.
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Sterculius65
September 2, 2016 at 12:49 pm
What has 100,000 legs but can’t walk?
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Jerry’s KIds!