NEW YORK – Jerry Lewis' next acting gig is no laughing matter.
This fall, the 80-year-old comedian will play the homeless uncle of Richard Belzer's police Detective John Munch in a guest spot on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," an NBC spokeswoman said Monday.
In the episode titled, "Uncle," detectives find Lewis' character living on the street and arrest him as a suspect in a murder case.
Lewis took a dramatic detour in 1983 as a talk-show host kidnapped by an aspiring comic, played by Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese's "The King of Comedy."
Belzer will lead a Friars Club celebrity roast of Lewis in New York on June 9.
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