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Teh One Who Knocks
05-17-2011, 05:25 PM
Us Weekly


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After 45 years of hosting the Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day telethon, Jerry Lewis is retiring.

The 85-year-old comedian said in a statement, excerpted by USA Today, that it was time for a "new telethon era.

Lewis will make his final appearance during the six-hour event on Sept. 4; he'll perform his song "You'll Never Walk Alone."

The telethon first aired in 1966 on a single New York channel and raised more than $1 million in research funds for muscular dystrophy. In 2010, the event raised nearly $59 million for the cause.

Muddy
05-17-2011, 06:00 PM
I hadn't seen him in so long I didnt realize he was still around...

RBP
05-17-2011, 06:03 PM
He's done great work on that thing.

Muddy
05-17-2011, 06:05 PM
What made him start, I wonder?

AntZ
05-19-2011, 10:02 PM
Jerry Lewis Retiring From MDA Telethon In September

May 16, 2011 3:03 PM



LAS VEGAS (AP) — After 45 years, Jerry Lewis is retiring as host of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Labor Day telethon.

The 85-year-old comedian and Las Vegas resident issued a statement Monday through the Tucson, Ariz.-based Muscular Dystrophy Association calling it time for a “new telethon era.”

He says he’ll make his final appearance on the six-hour primetime telethon Sept. 4 by performing his song “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

Lewis says he’ll continue as the association’s national chairman, a role he’s held since the early 1950s.

Lewis’ first Labor Day weekend telethon in 1966 was broadcast by a single New York City television station and raised more than $1 million.

Last year’s Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raised almost $59 million to fund research to find a cure for muscular dystrophy and ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.


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I haven't even seen the show in at least 15 years, but I have heard it's rather lame and dated. But I do have fond memories of watching all through the 70's, it was a hip telethon then.

Muddy
05-19-2011, 10:04 PM
http://tehbasement.com/showthread.php?6242-Jerry-Lewis-Retiring-from-Telethon-After-45-Years&highlight=lewis

beowulf
05-19-2011, 10:09 PM
thought he had died years ago! :lol:

Muddy
05-19-2011, 10:12 PM
Jerry Lewis is a great man...

beowulf
05-19-2011, 10:22 PM
really?........why?

Muddy
05-19-2011, 10:56 PM
really?........why?


He's probably raised over a billion dollars at this point for Muscular Dystrophy victims...

deebakes
05-19-2011, 10:58 PM
R.I.P. Jerry...

Muddy
05-19-2011, 10:59 PM
R.I.P. Jerry...


He's not dead ya' fuckin dork! :lol: He's retiring...

Hal-9000
05-19-2011, 11:00 PM
He's probably raised over a billion dollars at this point for Muscular Dystrophy victims...


Yep that guy has been doing them as long as I can remember...stays up most of the weekend too.
A truly great man

deebakes
05-19-2011, 11:01 PM
:rip:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-19-2011, 11:02 PM
He's probably raised over a billion dollars at this point for Muscular Dystrophy victims...

http://i.imgur.com/CzwVT.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1fG8m.jpg

deebakes
05-19-2011, 11:03 PM
you need to cite your sources :slap:

:mrgreen:

Muddy
05-19-2011, 11:05 PM
you need to cite your sources :slap:

:mrgreen:


duuuuuh... "the internet"... :lol:

deebakes
05-19-2011, 11:05 PM
what's that? :-k

Muddy
05-19-2011, 11:06 PM
Something Al Gore invented to make easy access to free porn...

deebakes
05-19-2011, 11:06 PM
i love gore porn :tup:

Teh One Who Knocks
05-19-2011, 11:08 PM
you need to cite your sources :slap:

:mrgreen:

:fire:

deebakes
05-19-2011, 11:09 PM
:fire:

:(

Teh One Who Knocks
05-19-2011, 11:12 PM
According to that chart, he's raised approximately $1.66 billion for MDA

Hal-9000
05-19-2011, 11:20 PM
65 million in donations within 3 days...that rocks :thumbsup:

Muddy
05-20-2011, 12:06 AM
According to that chart, he's raised approximately $1.66 billion for MDA


Wow... Now thats making your life count for something...

Teh One Who Knocks
05-20-2011, 12:11 AM
Yup, that's just incredible