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Five years aft heading up NYC Still Rising After 20 Years: A Comedy Celebration to use 9/11 charities, Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson are teaming up erstwhile again to lead NYC Still Rising After 25 Years: A 9/11 Charities Comedy Benefit, marking nan 25th day of nan 9/11 attacks.
In summation to Stewart and Davidson, nan use will characteristic A-list comedians Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Ronny Chieng, Nikki Glaser, Josh Johnson and much yet-to-be-announced performers.
The arena is group for September 10 astatine MSG.
The format will beryllium a revival of nan 2021 use which featured Chappelle, Burr, Chieng, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, Jimmy Fallon, Wanda Sykes, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Colin Quinn, Dave Attell, Jay Pharoah, and Tom Segura. “We wanted to put connected a nosy ceremony to grant this awesome city’s resilience,” Stewart and Davidson said successful a associated connection astatine nan time. “It’s bully to beryllium capable to do this pinch friends and group we love.”
Davidson was 7 years aged erstwhile his father, FDNY firefighter Scott Davidson, was connected work pinch Ladder Company 118 successful Brooklyn Heights erstwhile a telephone came successful astir nan attack. Davidson, on pinch 5 different firefighters, raced to nan segment astatine nan World Trade Center. Davidson, on pinch nan remainder of his crew, were killed while evacuating nan Marriott World Trade Center edifice arsenic nan North Tower collapsed, burying nan building, and nan occurrence motortruck successful nan destruction.
Stewart has been a longtime nationalist advocator fighting for nan wellness attraction and financial compensation of 9/11 first responders and survivors. In 2019, galore will retrieve Stewart’s impassioned “empty room” reside astatine a Capitol Hill proceeding successful beforehand of rows of quiet seats, wherever he slammed lawmakers for their inaction complete nan re-authorization of nan World Trade Center Health Program. He said of nan first responders, “They responded successful 5 seconds. They did their jobs pinch courage, grace, tenacity, humility. Eighteen years later, do yours.” Congress later reauthorized nan money and Stewart received New York City’s highest civic honor, nan Bronze Medallion.
Tickets for nan September 10 use spell connected waste connected Friday, July 31 astatine 10 a.m. ET.
