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
Eric Lewis (actor) Gibbs", by Will Evans and Guy Reeves, at the Garrick. Lewis continued to perform until 1925, appearing in the films "Brown Sugar" (1922) as the Earl of Knightsbridge, and as Sir Anthony Fenwick in "The Happy Ending" (1925), which starred Fay Compton and Jack Buchanan. He also wrote sketch comedies and short plays. Lewis died in Margate, Kent, in 1935 at the age of 79. Eric Lewis (actor) Frederic Lewis Tuffley (23 October 1855 – 1 April 1935), better known by his stage name, Eric Lewis, was an English comedian, actor and singer. In a career spanning five decades, he