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
Lee Evans (comedian) He lent his voice to "Zippo the Troodon" in the Emmy-nominated miniseries "Dinotopia" (2002) and made a notable departure from comedy with a leading role in the Irish film "Freeze Frame" (2004). He had made his cinema debut with the Jerry Lewis comedy "Funny Bones" (1995), earning the Paris Film Festival Award for Best Actor. In 2008, Evans' "Big" tour DVD "Big – Live at the O2" became the highest-selling Christmas DVD in the United Kingdom, only to be surpassed by his own "Monsters Tour" DVD in 2014. In November 2014 Evans officially announced his retirement. In 2018 Evans came