The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon individual stations, airing on ABC on Sunday, September 1, 2013, and running two hours. The final edition aired on ABC on August 31, 2014, again as a two-hour special, beginning at 9PM ET/PT. It was announced on May 1, 2015 that the MDA would be discontinuing the annual event for good. Jerry Lewis began hosting telethons to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America (MDAA) in 1952 after a plea from a staff member who worked with Lewis and Dean Martin on "The Colgate Comedy Hour". Lewis had previously taken part in what has been described as the very first
Jerry Carroll (comedian) Volvo Rents Texas Comedy Night in Bryan-College Station. The revenue from the show benefited Bryan-College Station Habitat for Humanity's 20th Anniversary Home. He was a speaker at 2008 Governor's Agriculture Conference Carroll performed at the Eight annual Farm News Agriculture Show, In 2013, Carroll released "Dirt in my DNA: Best of Jerry Carroll, Vol. 1", a collection of some of his routines. Carroll produced and starred in a comedy TV show titled "Fishing For Laughs" which lasted 13 episodes. He is the current co-host for the Sportsman Channel series "Amazing America with Sarah Palin". Jerry Carroll (comedian) Jerry Carroll (born