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 ...

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 ...

No one would sniff at all the dollars Jerry Lewis raised for muscular dystrophy: a couple of billion during his 45-year reign as host of the MDA Telethon. But what kind of TV did he offer in exchange?

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 ...

The annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is to raise funds and awareness for fighting Muscular Dystrophy, but four new artists got the chance to raise their profiles during the annual Labor Day weekend ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Last week at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, Jerry Lewis batted down rumors he was severing his association with the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon he ...

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 ...

This Labor Day weekend, I hope the people of the Fargo-Moorhead area will tune in to the Jerry Lewis Telethon, which will raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and its commitment to ...

Lewis, 85, issued a statement through the association calling it "time for an all new Telethon era." "As a labor of love, I've hosted the annual Telethon since 1966 and I'll be making my final ...

In this Sept. 7, 1998, file photo, Jerry Lewis stands in front of a countdown board after announcing a record $51.5 million in pledges and contributions for the fight against neuromuscular diseases ...