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Kevin Hart is helping to relaunch the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual telethon, previously hosted by Jerry Lewis. The MDA is relaunching the once-annualJerry Lewis MDA Telethon, which broadcast its final edition with host Nancy O'Dell in 2014, as theKevin Hart Kids Telethon in 2020.

The Nutty Professor is getting a reboot.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After breathing new life into the Scream franchise, Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein are looking to do the same with a classic comedy IP. Sources tell Deadline, Project X has landed the rights to The Nutty Professor, the classic Jerry Lewis comedy that Eddie Murphy rebooted in the 90s.No studio is attached as Project X will package themselves before taking it out on the market.

Jeff Vasishta If the walls could talk. The former Las Vegas home of the late Jerry Lewis is on the market for nearly $1.3 million.

Jeff Rose, a publicist with Screen Gems and Paramount Television in the 1960s, died Thursday of natural causes at his home in West Hollywood, his family announced. He was 88.

Ken Shimura, a popular comedian in Japan, has died after contracting the coronavirus, becoming the country's first known celebrity victim of the disease. He was 70.

TOKYO -- Popular Japanese comedian Ken Shimura, who drew inspiration from the American comedic icon Jerry Lewis, has died from the coronavirus, becoming Japan's first known celebrity victim of the disease. He was 70.