Is Jerry on tonight?

TS Garp · **Joined:** 29 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 32245 **Location:** MN

Wynonna Judd just sang the song "I want to know where love is" by Foreigner, encompanied by a large orchestra.
It was nice.

Now back to Mega-Shark.

Tommy Tomorrow · 13 Jun 2006

So, what was the total $$$$$$ ?

JohnG · 03 Aug 2006

I liked the part where Jerry cursed out one of the main sponsors. He tried to read the tally board but remarked "I can't see the board because of that god damned South Point Hotel sign underneath".

Its only the place where the telethon is being held.

Tally was pretty good. Over $65M. Amazing considering the economy.

Linda · **Posted:** Mon May 16, 2011 10:27 pm

Jerry Lewis retiring from MDA telethon in Sept.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110516/ap_ ... ry_lewis_2

Dr. Brian Fever · 10 Aug 2004

End of an era.

You done good, Jerry......you done good.

Kid Nemo · 05 Apr 2011

I'll second this sentiment.
You may be a creep,Jerry,but you did some good here.

Mike M · **Joined:** 24 Aug 2004 **Posts:** 6487

Todd wrote:

i wonder if he and milton berle were close?

Judge WAN · 01 Aug 2005

Dr. Brian Fever wrote:

End of an era.

You done good, Jerry......you done good.

+1000

That meddlin kid · 26 Mar 2007

I had just been wondering the other day whether he was still doing the annual telethon. I get "arrested" annually for muscular dystrophy, but I hadn't heard anything about the telethons in years. It's amazing that he has continued doing these on into his 80s.

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 12:45 am

Jerry Lewis is no longer MDA's national chairman

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/03/jerry ... a-telethon

RobertSwanderson · 01 Jan 2007

Hopefully Dick Clark will follow suit and hand the baton to Ryan Secrest for New Years Eve.

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:03 am

Or perhaps... Jerry Lewis' New Year's Rockin' Eve?

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

Oy, my glavin!

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:07 am

Jerry Lewis: Saving lives through MDA was honor

http://www.bostonherald.com/track/celeb ... id=1360342

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:14 pm

Mystery surrounds Jerry Lewis’ absence from Sunday’s MDA Telethon

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/se ... ndays-mda-

Jimbo · 19 Jul 2006

So it seems the whole Telethon this year is tonight's 3-hour affair? Pre-recorded, no less.

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:32 pm

MDA telecast raised more — a lot more — with Jerry Lewis in 2010 than without him in 2011

http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/blogs/kat ... lewis-2010

Kid Nemo · 05 Apr 2011

Hugh wrote:

Look at those eyes..so cold,resentful.Did anybody ask him to do that? Did he feel obligated?

Too bad that the MDA isn't getting so much money without Jerry,but I think it was time for him to go.He was looking his age and then some.His nasty side was increasingly on display.Now Lewis can work on getting the Nutty Professor musical going,and the MDA can get a host who isn't a loose cannon.

Dr. Chris Evil · 26 Jul 2006

http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/1 ... -telethon/

Why Did Jerry Lewis Leave the Telethon?
The star’s sudden departure last year from his Labor Day showcase has still not been explained. But it’s not a pretty story
By Richard Zoglin
August 16, 2012

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 annual Labor Day telethon, the marathon TV event he had made his personal showcase, soap box and sentimental journey for 45 years. With the show cut from 21.5 hours to just 6, Lewis was being replaced by a quartet of hosts, the MDA said, and would make an appearance only at the end of the show, to say goodbye and sing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” one last time.

Then what seemed the sad but inevitable end of an era became something uglier. A few weeks before the show, the MDA issued a curt announcement that Jerry Lewis would not be making a goodbye appearance after all — and was resigning from his post as MDA national chairman. The telethon went on without him (raising $61.5 million, more than the previous year with Lewis, according to the MDA) and included a filmed tribute to him and warm words of thanks from various participants during the show. But no Jerry.

A year later, Lewis has been all but erased from the telethon’s memory. This year’s show, airing the Sunday night before Labor Day, has been further downsized, to just three hours, with no named host and a smattering of B-list guest stars (Carrie Underwood, Will.i.am, Khloe Kardashian). It is no longer called a telethon, but simply an “entertainment special,” and there will be no tote board tallying the donations. In the press announcement of the event, Jerry Lewis’s name is nowhere mentioned.

The story behind Lewis’s departure remains untold. But a few things have become clear in the year since the awkward public breakup. Jerry Lewis was dumped by the MDA, the charity he had been identified with since the 1950s. He’s still bitter about it. And the telethon is withering without him.

Lewis still won’t talk about what happened. “That’s not a place I want to go. Because if I go there, you’ll never get me back,” he said when I raised the subject with him recently in Nashville, where he’s directing a new stage musical, The Nutty Professor. “It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it. But I have already ingested all that I want from that whole f—ing adventure.”

The pain is not hard to discern. “This was a hurt man,” says Richard Belzer, the stand-up comic and Law and Order co-star, who has developed a close, almost father-son relationship with Lewis. Jerry’s goodbye appearance was scrapped after he and the charity could not agree on its format and length. Lewis wanted to do it live; the MDA floated several pre-taped options — “all insulting,” Belzer claims. “It’s as if they were trying to provoke him to leave.” In the end, he did. “It was a moral outrage, a PR nightmare and a sad commentary on this incredible philanthropic career,” says Belzer.

To be sure, dealing with Lewis, now 86, has never been a walk in the park. His annual Labor Day orgy of sentiment, self-regard and showbiz schmaltz was for many years something of a punch line. (“You know why they love Jerry Lewis in France,” a comedian told me not long ago. “In France, they don’t get the telethon.”) Still, he raised an estimated $2 billion for “Jerry’s kids” over more than a half-century with the MDA, and a well-orchestrated, celebrity-studded farewell to him on the telethon might have been a fundraising bonanza.

MDA officials continue to maintain that Lewis simply retired. “We honor Jerry Lewis, we admire the work he’s done for us, and we respect his decision to retire,” says Valerie Cwik, the MDA’s interim president. (She replaced Gerald Weinberg, who was reportedly behind Lewis’s ouster and who stepped down as president last December, after 54 years with the organization.) And she insists that the changes in the telethon are part of a necessary evolution in fundraising strategy, to put less emphasis on the once-a-year event. “It has to change because the American audience has changed,” says Cwik. “A 21.5-hour show doesn’t fit in a 140-character world.”

Neither, apparently, does Jerry Lewis.

Read the full story in this week’s issue of TIME.

Tommy Tomorrow · 13 Jun 2006

A shame all around.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri May 01, 2015 7:33 pm

Mercifully, the Jerry-less telethon is finally done:

Labor Day Telethon That Jerry Lewis Memorably Ran Pulls Plug

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/l ... wis-792831

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2015 1:10 pm

Brian in another thread:

Dr. Brian Fever wrote:

It's Labor Day.

I should be watching the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon.

COME BACK, JERRY!!

I feel the same way. Jerry could probably still do it, too.

Is Jerry on tonight?

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