comedy team, they're an important part of america and i mean, the biggest there ever was. they are the biggest most important team and only lasted ten years. ten years that changed everybody. >> i was going to ask you that. particularly you, as someone who's made his name -- as part of a comedy team. a partnership. what you learned from, well, from jerry lewis. certainly from the famous partnership with dean martin, what you learn from their partnership and what yourself and fellow comics learned from him. what were his innovations? >> you know, you could really -- you don't even have to get abstract about this. he invented techniques. he invented the, you know, the video tap that allowed, allows people in movies to direct them. he is the one that allowed us to watch playback in film. he invented that. there's a lot of just ways that comedy movies are made that were