By Frank Worth

After an enormously successful film and music career throughout the fifties and mid-sixties, Dean embarked upon a relatively new medium - television. The Dean Martin Show began on September 16, 1965, in which one of the segments, a celebrity roast, became wildly popular. The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts became a fast favorite with television audiences and soon evolved to become its own network series. At the time Dean Martin had one of the largest contracts between a network and a star.

In the 11 years of the show, Dean Martin and his panel of pals successfully ridiculed, embarrassed and made fun of legendary stars like, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis Jr. and even Dean Martin himself.

He was a member of the 1960s Rat Pack with his friends Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.

Dean Martin received a gold record in 2004 for his fastest-selling album ever, which also hit the iTunes Top 5, and Playboy magazine recently called Martin ‘the coolest man who ever lived’.

Jerry Lewis (1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and director known for his slapstick humor.

Jerry Lewis was originally paired up in 1946 with Dean Martin, and formed the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. Aside from popular nightclub work, they starred in an extremely successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures.

His debut film was The Delicate Delinquent in 1957 and other notable roles were as Stanley in The Bellboy, Professor Julius Kelp and Buddy Love in The Nutty Professor and Jerry Langford in The King of Comedy.

He is well known for his charity charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Jerry Lewis has won many prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and The Venice Film Festival.

He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Bob Hope, KBE (1903-2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for US military personnel. He was well known for his good natured humour and long career.

His trademark song was Thanks for the Memory.

Of his 66 films, he was best known for My Favourite Brunette and the highly profitable ‘Road to...’ movies in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour.

He hosted the Oscars a memorable eighteen times and was presented with two honourary Oscars.
He received the Congressional Gold Medal (June 8, 1962), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded by Lyndon B. Johnson, January 20, 1969), the Sylvanus Thayer Award, United States Military Academy at West Point, 1968 and the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, 1997.

Bob Hope has four stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in motion pictures, radio, television and theatre.