Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Jim Gaffigan and Seth Meyers are headlining this yr’s Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser, which advantages injured veterans and their households. Jimmy Carr and Eric Church are additionally on the invoice for the Nov. 5 comedy occasion on the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Stand Up for Heroes was first held in 2007. The occasion produced by the New York Comedy Festival is the brainchild of pageant founders Caroline Hirsch, Andrew Fox and ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was almost killed throughout a 2006 assault in Iraq whereas embedded with U.S. troops. He calls the occasion an opportunity to “put aside our differences” to “honor those who have and continue to sacrifice so much.”
Tickets go on sale Thursday (Sept. 13) at midday Eastern.
