Bruce Springsteen Leads All-Star Stand Up for Heroes Profit Lineup

Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Amber Iman, the Lumineers, Hasan Minhaj, Jeff Ross, Iliza Shlesinger and extra are set to carry out on the annual Stand Up for Heroes profit occasion, which helps the Bob Woodruff Basis’s efforts to assist wounded service members, veterans and their households. Offered in partnership with the New York Comedy Pageant, the sixteenth annual celebration will happen on Nov. 7 at David Geffen Corridor at Lincoln Middle for the Performing Arts in New York Metropolis. Tickets go on sale in the present day (Sept. 7) at 

The occasion, which at all times options Springsteen performing choose songs and dishing out jokes, may even spotlight inspiring moments, memorable surprises, and tales of resilience whereas recognizing the women and men who’ve served in our nation’s navy. The Bob Woodruff Basis’s mission is to “discover, fund, form and speed up equitable options that assist the veteran and navy group thrive,” in accordance with a launch.

Springsteen has appeared at 14 Stand Up for Heroes occasions, solely lacking one in 2017 attributable to his busy “Springsteen on Broadway” schedule. At a earlier present, Springsteen auctioned off a bike and dinner that includes his “mother’s lasagna.”

“We’ve been thrilled to proceed our partnership with the Bob Woodruff Basis to current Stand Up for Heroes as a really particular night time throughout the New York Comedy Pageant,” stated Caroline Hirsch, founding father of the New York Comedy Pageant and Carolines on Broadway, and Board Member of the Bob Woodruff Basis. “We’re humbled by the resilience, dedication and sacrifice that these extraordinary veterans have proven of their service to our nation.  We’re right here to assist our veterans and their households – and no higher technique to come collectively and expertise the perfect in standup comedy and the therapeutic energy of laughter.”

Stand Up for Heroes was began by ABC Information correspondent Bob Woodruff in 2006 following his personal expertise suffered extreme head accidents from an explosion whereas he was masking the warfare in Iraq. After launching at New York’s intimate City Corridor, it moved to the bigger Beacon Theater and later to the 5,600-seat Theater at Madison Sq. Backyard. The occasion was digital in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

“After an unbelievable in-person return final 12 months, we’re thrilled to welcome everybody again for one more night time of laughter, therapeutic, and appreciation of our nation’s heroic veterans, that includes among the funniest comics and most gifted musicians on the planet,” added Woodruff. 

Over the previous 16 years, comedians and performers together with Stephen Colbert, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, Jim Gaffigan, Whoopi Goldberg, John Mayer, Seth Meyers, Hasan Minhaj, John Mulaney, Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien, Jerry Seinfeld,  Nikki Glaser, Ronnie Chieng, Purple Scorching Chili Peppers, Ray Romano, and Robin Williams have taken the stage to advocate and honor navy veterans.

So far, the Bob Woodruff Basis has invested greater than $85 million to” discover, fund and form probably the most progressive applications supporting our heroes, reaching greater than 11 million veterans and their households throughout the nation,” in accordance with a launch.

“On high of being a hilarious night time of jokes and an inspirational night time of therapeutic, final 12 months’s return to an in individual Stand Up for Heroes was an unbelievable reminder of the facility of communities coming collectively to rally round a standard trigger,” stated Anne Marie Dougherty, CEO of the Bob Woodruff Basis. “With so lots of the challenges veterans face being exacerbated by the pandemic, it’s important that all of us come collectively once more to not solely have fun them and their sacrifices, but in addition to remind the veteran group that there are individuals and organizations who actually care and gained’t cease combating on their behalf.”

Tickets for Stand Up for Heroes go on sale in the present day (Sept. 7) by means of bobwoodrufffoundation.org, nycomedyfestival.com and the Lincoln Middle field workplace.