The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced plans for its 2010 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon are almost complete for the 21 1/2-hour live show. It includes live remotes, dance and production numbers, ...

Not since, oh, Martin and Lewis has there been a showbiz breakup as sudden and inexplicable. Last year the Muscular Dystrophy Association announced that Jerry Lewis was stepping down as host of its ...

Lewis has not publicly said why he is no longer chairman of the MDA, or why he didn't personally appear in this year's telethon. The co-hosts' remarks during the show were the first time the MDA has ...

Labor Day weekend will be very different. There will still be a Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon, but Jerry Lewis won’t be hosting. After 44 years as host, he’s retiring, but will ...

LAS VEGAS -- After 45 years promoting treatment and a cure for children he calls "my kids," comedian Jerry Lewis announced this week he is retiring as host of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy ...

Jerry Lewis’s annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association raised more money than ever this year, $63.7-million, according to the charity. But the actor and the event continue to ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon is ending its annual Labor Day telethon, a television tradition for decades that has slowly disappeared from view since the sudden end of ...

Jerry Lewis died two weeks before Labor Day, the annual holiday he made his own for the better part of many of our lives. His annual telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association were as reliable a ...

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has confirmed that Jerry Lewis is no longer its national chairman and will not host the charity's 2011 telethon. MDA executive R Rodney Howell said that ...

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Jerry Lewis, a comedic fixture on big screens and charity telethons for decades, has died at the age of 91. David Greene talks to Shawn Levy,... Comedian Jerry Lewis Dies At 91, Also Known For ...