Friends:
I usually come to you with Progressive politically-themed videos. I have much love for the DKos community, met many of you at Netroots Nation, and love this site's focus on politics and national change.
In the spirit of this season (by which of course, I mean, ChristmaHannukRamadanaWannza), I've been working on a very different kind of project recently. With the economy being what it is, there's some people who are suffering terribly in my community, and this is about them.
In my spare time I volunteer and teach acting at Hollywood Arts, a homeless services center for 18-25 year old kids in Los Angeles who are too old for foster care but still without a home, family, or support.
It's a great bunch of folks, and I'm organizing a benefit this weekend for them at Second City Los Angeles. Myself and some other Second City alums will be improvising for 24 hours straight to raise money for a scholarship fund for Hollywood Arts. We'll have celebrity special guests, musicians, and generally a kickass lineup of entertainment for all 24 hours. Plus, myself and some other alums will be improvising and performing pretty much constantly, slowly losing our health and minds for a great cause.
The show will feature veterans of shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, MTV's Wild N Out, Current Television, Groundlings, Second City, SNL, FrankTV, Reno 911, 30 Rock, Last Comic
Standing, The Office, Daily Show, Chocolate News, According To Jim, Heroes, Lie To Me. MAD TV, and Parks And Recreation.
We'll be livestreaming the event here starting at 9:30 PM PST tonight, till 9:30 PM Saturday night.
[NOTE-UNTIL 9:30 PM PST, YOU'LL BE SEEING REHEARSALS, WARMUPS, AND PRESHOW--it's a live feed into the Second City theater, it'll be showing the action behind the scenes till the show begins].
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Please tune in, watch, and laugh with some of the funniest people in Los Angeles. And please DONATE THROUGH PAYPAL to the cause--two dollars, five dollars, fifty, anything you can spare will go 100 PERCENT to this terrific cause.
Thanks for watching, thanks for anything you can spare, and feel free to stay up all night with us--it'll be fun, exhausting, and for some kids who really need our help.