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The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, and Michael Elias (from a story by Martin and Gottlieb ...
Released as a single in 1964 on the Money record label, "The Jerk" was a hit for the Los Angeles band the Larks. In the same year, the Miracles wrote and recorded "Come on Do the Jerk". Another Motown group, the Contours, released "Can You Jerk Like Me" in 1964. Dobie Gray released "Monkey Jerk" as the B-side to his 1965 single "My Baby".
Jerk (also known as jolt) is the rate of change of an object's acceleration over time. It is a vector quantity (having both magnitude and direction). Jerk is most commonly denoted by the symbol j and expressed in m/s 3 ( SI units ) or standard gravities per second ( g 0 /s).
Jerk (physics), an aspect of variable motion; Half of the clean and jerk, an Olympic weightlifting lift; Jerk (cooking), a style of cooking native to Jamaica; Jerk (dance), a 1960s fad dance; Jerkin', a dance
Serna's first break in films came in 1970 on the Roger Corman-directed film The Student Nurses.Over the years, Serna has appeared in over 100 films. In the blockbuster comedy The Jerk, he appeared as a lowrider-driving criminal who cons a naive Steve Martin out of money and new tires.
Jerkin' or Jerk is a street dance culture and hip hop subgenre originating in urban California in the late 2000s. It gained mainstream popularity outside of California by Inland Empire -based groups New Boyz and Audio Push , [ 1 ] and has origins in the Los Angeles metropolitan area . [ 2 ]
The Jerk, Too is a 1984 American made-for-television comedy film starring Mark Blankfield as title character Navin Johnson, in a reworked version of the 1979 Steve Martin film The Jerk. [1] While Martin is credited as "executive producer" of the film, he did not write or appear in the film.
Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television series, including supporting roles as Earl Frank in Straight Time (1978), the Madman in The Jerk (1979), Captain Bryant in Blade Runner (1982), Harv in Critters (1986), and Walt Scheel in Christmas with the Kranks (2004).