"you'll never walk alone" ♪ walk on with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone ♪ >> reporter: lewis struggled with his own health problems over the years. >> it's been a long, long, grueling ride. i've ingested more than 24,000 pimms. >> reporter: but through it all, he kept his sense of humor. >> you better laugh at it, because the alternative is not funny. [ laughter ] >> another legend, larry king, sat down multiple times with jerry lewis. look at his recount of the breakup of that famous comedy duo, martin and lewis. >> without dean, i'd have been back doing a record act. i was only good, because he was there. i was only good, because he was the centerpiece. this isn't false modesty. it happens to be the truth.