Ray Romano Returning to Host 12th Annual Peter Boyle Research Fundraiser
Cristela Alonzo, Gabriel Iglesias, Jim Jefferies, Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero, Kevin Nealon, Chelsea Peretti, and Sasheer Zamata will join host Ray Romano for the 12th Annual Comedy Celebration benefiting the Peter Boyle Research Fund.
The International Myeloma Foundation (IMF) announced today that actor and comedian Ray Romano will return to host the event on Saturday, November 3 at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre. An unforgettable evening of comedy, the event will feature an all-star comedy lineup including
All proceeds will benefit the Peter Boyle Research Fund, created when Boyle died in 2006 after a four year battle with the incurable bone marrow cancer. If you don’t know someone with the disease, you may be unfamiliar with MM, but it is one of the fastest growing blood cancers in the world- an estimated 30,000 adults will be diagnosed with the disease this year. Since 2007, the IMF Comedy Celebration has been an annual event featuring over 50 celebrity comedians and musicians.
The event is chaired by Loraine Boyle, Peter Boyle’s wife who chose comedy as the vehicle to help spread awareness and raise money because she said she knew her husband would have liked that more than any other type of fundraiser.
Mrs. Boyle was a rock and roll writer who became the New York editor of Rolling Stone, and the New York bureau chief for the English rock paper, Melody Maker. She met her husband on the set of Young Frankenstein. After Boyle passed away, she joined the International Myeloma Foundation’s Board of Directors and has chaired the annual benefit for 12 years.
Tickets are on-sale now at comedy.myeloma.org.
