Lewis publicist Candi Cazau declined comment to The Associated Press when told of the statements that opened the telethon on Sunday. Co-host Nigel Lythgoe said during his opening comments on the ...

Lewis, who's appeared in scores of films and TV shows as well as produced, directed and taught film, had been chairman of the MDA since the early 1950s, before the famed telethon began. In 1977, Lewis ...

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 ...

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 ...

MDA National Chairman and Telethon star Jerry Lewis, joined on-stage by co-hosts Jann Carl, Nancy O"Dell, Alison Sweeney, Ace Young and Billy Gilman. The entertainment line-up at this year"s Telethon ...

It was broadcast by only one television station on Labor Day weekend in 1966. By the end of the day on Monday, the 42nd annual Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon will have been watched by 40 million ...