After serving as host of the telethon since 1966, comedian Jerry Lewis has been pulled from the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual Labor Day fundraiser.
In an announcement Wednesday night, MDA chairman of the board of directors R. Rodney Howell, M.D. said the 85-year-old comedian will be replaced as MDA national chairman, as well.
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Lewis — whose telethons have raised more than $2 billion for the MDA cause — announced his retirement from the event in May, but had planned to make the upcoming Sept. 4 MDA telethon his last.