Buddy Love
The Nutty Professor (known as Julius F. Kelp in the original film (1963) and as Prof. Sherman Klump in the 1996 remake, and by his alter ego Buddy Love in both films) is a fictional character portrayed by Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor and its respective sequel, and by Eddie Murphy in the 1996 version and its 2000 sequel Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
Julius F. Kelp is an awkward, shy, and accident-prone, but polite, intelligent, and lively chemistry professor. Sherman Klump is an obese but jolly and kind-hearted science teacher at Welman College. Buddy Love, meanwhile, is a charismatic and conventionally handsome lothario with narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies.
Murphy also played the rest of Klump's family in the sequel. Lewis was not fond of Murphy's characters, in particular due to excessive fart jokes in the films.
Alongside "inhuman professors" inspired by the perceived motivations of scientists in the Manhattan Project, the Nutty Professor is an example of a stock character and stereotype of the "absent-minded professor" , which was prevalent during the 1960s.
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