Ray Romano Hosting Comedy Night Fighting a Deadly Disease to Benefit Peter Boyle Research Fund
Ray Romano, Robert Klein, Hannibal Buress, Fred Willard, Nikki Glaser, Rachel Feinstein, Kumail Nanjiani, Marc Maron, and Iliza Shlesinger will all perform at a benefit geared toward fighting the deadly disease, Multiple Myeloma. The event will take place November 4th at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre.
Each year, the event is hosted by Ray Romano, the star of Everybody Loves Raymond and a former co-worker and friend of Peter Boyle’s whose life was claimed by the disease.
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. Since its inception, the event has raised over $6 million through laughter.
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. 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 Boyle 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 11 years. She is currently a co-producer of the successful Broadway musical Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
Tickets are on-sale now at comedy.myeloma.org. The main event, preceded by a silent auction and cocktail reception, will include two hours of comedy from the performers and will be followed by a VIP party for select ticket holders.
If you plan to be in the Los Angeles area on November 4th, what better way is there to spend an evening than by laughing your ass off for a good cause?
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