Later roles and final work Lewis carried on and starred in Circus of the Stars, Pink Lady and Jeff, Hardly Working (1981, his first "comeback" film in 11 years), Late Night with David Letterman, Star Search, Cracking Up (1983, originally titled as Smorgasbord), Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1984) and the two French movies To Catch a Cop (1984) and How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave (1984), both which had their distribution under Lewis's control. During this period he took a very rare dramatic role, as Jerry Langford in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982), playing a late-night TV talk-show host who is stalked by a delusional would-be comedian played by Robert De Niro.
Later roles and final work Lewis carried on and starred in Circus of the Stars, Pink Lady and Jeff, Hardly Working (1981, his first "comeback" film in 11 years), Late Night with David Letterman, Star Search, Cracking Up (1983, originally titled as Smorgasbord), Slapstick (Of Ano,ther Kind) (1984) and the two French movies To Catch a Cop (1984) and How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave (1984), both which had their distribution under Lewis's control. During this period he took a very rare dramatic role, as Jerry Langford in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982) playing a late-night TV talk-show host who is stalked by a delusional would-be comedian played by Robert De Niro.