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Who was Dean Martin's longtime comedy partner?

Photo of Dean Martin from 1959
MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Dean Martin you picture probably has a highball in one hand and a cigarette in the other, working a Vegas room entirely alone. For his first ten years of fame, he did the opposite, splitting every stage with a manic younger partner he met back in 1944 at a New York club called the Glass Hat. Who was Dean Martin's longtime comedy partner?