The telethon featured comedy and musical performances from various artists in support of the UNCF's and Rawls ' efforts.

At the BBC's Children in Need 2011 telethon, Kermit and Miss Piggy introduced a performance of the song, which featured many stars of British television, including Harry Hill, Noel Edmonds and Gary Lineker.

* During the telethon, parody commercials were featured, including " Sperm-N-Slide " among others.

The first telethon was telecast from the Memorial Auditorium, and featured actor Pat O ' Brien as the celebrity guest.

Around the same time the series was airing, Grills featured as himself in an episode of the Crawford's sitcom Bobby Dazzler, as a telethon guest, where reference was made to his role in Bluey.

His Grammy appearance was somewhat reminiscent of his performance of " My City of Ruins " during the post-September 11, 2001 America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon.

Kennedy's first television appearance was in March 1957, representing 3UZ on a GTV-9 Red Cross telethon.

In 1976, Martin made a surprise appearance on Lewis's annual Labor Day telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, orchestrated by mutual friend Frank Sinatra.

At the 2001 Radio Music Awards, Carey made her second public appearance following her breakdown, the first being a performance of " Hero " at the America: A Tribute to Heroes telethon on September 21, 2001.

Her appearance on the telethon was her first public appearance since her publicized breakdown and hospitalization, prior to the release of Glitter.

Later, Sideshow Bob makes an appearance at a Krusty the Clown telethon and makes amends ; Lisa encourages Bart to be as forgiving as Krusty, but Bart refuses to believe that Bob has changed.

In the second, Kim Coolzip presents a seductive commercial for liquid meat, which segues into her appearance on a charity fund-raising telethon.

* The first ever telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

* A two-hour live telethon entitled " America: A Tribute to Heroes ", with musical performances and spoken tributes by top American performers, is simultaneously broadcast on nearly every network.

* Jerry Lewis ends his Labor Day telethon by singing " You'll Never Walk Alone ".

In an interview on a Canadian telethon that was hosted by Bob McGrath, Snuffy's performer, Martin P. Robinson, revealed that Snuffy was finally introduced to the main human cast mainly due to a string of high profile and sometimes graphic stories of pedophilia and sexual abuse of children that had been aired on shows such as 60 Minutes and 20 / 20.

In addition, WBZ-TV in Boston and KYW-TV in Philadelphia chose to air a series of documentaries about the Olympics by filmmaker Bud Greenspan in lieu of the telethon.

In many cases beyond older systems, telethon tote boards have either been replaced by LCD displays showing totals, or scoreboards adapted to display dollar amounts.

Comic Relief ( February 5, 1988 ) – Not technically an episode of The New Statesman, this was the first annual Red Nose Day telethon held by the Comic Relief charity.

Blankety Blank returned to British screens as a one-off edition as part of the BBC's annual Children in Need telethon in which Terry Wogan reprised his role as the host of the show accompanied by his wand microphone.

George learns of the deal and calls his aunt, who forces her husband to hold off, allowing George time to raise the money Harvey owes by selling investment stock in Channel 62 through a telethon.

The telethon starts off successfully, led by Stanley's boundless energy, but Fletcher sends his goons to kidnap Stanley.

Kennedy was a radio announcer at 3UZ in Melbourne before being ' discovered ' by GTV-9 producer Norm Spencer, when appearing on a GTV telethon.

Recent programs include What's Your Talent, a local combination of Britain's Got Talent and Show de Calouros ( created and hosted by Silvio Santos during the 1970s ); a Brazilian version of 1 vs. 100 ; an annual telethon, which raised R $ 19 million in 2009 ; Kyle XY ; the reality show Solitary ; Smallville, Grey's Anatomy and De Frente with Gabi, a talk show featuring journalist Marilia Gabriela.

Following controversial remarks made by Robertson on the former program about Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, as well as other equally controversial comments regarding gays, feminists, Muslims, abortion, and many other social issues, ABC Family moved to distance itself from the program ( the showing of which is also required under Robertson's original sale stipulations, along with the airing of a day-long CBN telethon which airs the week before the Super Bowl every year ); On August 29, 2005, ABC Family changed the disclaimers before, during, and after the broadcasts from " The following / preceding program is / was brought to you by CBN " to " The following / preceding CBN telecast does not reflect the views of ABC Family.

Originally created as a one-off tie-in series by Channel 4 in association with the BBC's Comic Relief charity telethon, Celebrity Big Brother is now a full spin-off of Big Brother, formerly shown on Channel 4, S4C and internet live streaming and downloading, backed up with email and SMS text news reports to subscribers.

The success of the documentary launched a telethon by the same name in 2007.

The sister town of Plymouth, Massachusetts organized a number of fundraising events capped by a 3-hour telethon which raised over $ 85, 000.

The union has a close relationship with Jerry Lewis and his annual Labor Day telethon and is invariably one of the groups showcased by the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The local portion of the telethon is still hosted by Bill Cardille.

" The 17 November 2006 Children in Need charity telethon included a segment featuring the Holby City cast performing a comical version of " Hung Up " by Madonna.

Jack Donaghy, played by Alec Baldwin, decides to air a pre-recorded telethon to benefit the victims of the disaster.

In recent years, substantial portions of the telethon had been preempted by commitments to NBC entertainment and sports programming.

Rawls also performed it just before his death on 2006's " An Evening of Stars " telethon, backed by the Rickey Minor Band.

According to Jordan, he'd planned to meet up with John Mayer and Willie Weeks in January, 2005 to perform a benefit concert on a NBC sponsored telethon Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope to raise funds and public awareness benefiting victims in the aftermath of the tsunami that struck southeast Asia.

Prior to 2009, the New Brunswick feed had broadcast an annual charity telethon from Saint John.

In 2002, John re-recorded the song as a duet with opera singer Alessandro Safina for the first Sport Relief charity telethon, and it reached number four in the UK.

When the telethon went national in 1979 with John Ritter as M. C.

Betty White also gives a great guest performance as herself, hosting a PBS telethon and ridiculing those viewers who watch but don't send in contributions.

Everyone learns from someone who calls into the telethon where Gordy's parents are going to be slaughtered at an unidentified slaughterhouse in Nebraska.

The comedian who performs at the telethon whom Homer does not find funny is a parody of Garrison Keillor.