Muscular Dystrophy Association

…local segment of Jerry Lewis’s Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon but were prevented from doing so by Hicks’s parents. At age 15 Hicks began sneaking out of his room at night through a window to appear onstage with Slade at a new comedy club, the Comedy Workshop. A comedic wunderkind, Hicks…

…national vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, he spearheaded its 2001 outreach to Hispanic Americans.

…his long involvement with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).