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Ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson have set an all-star comedy benefit show at Madison Square Garden, with proceeds going towards 9/11 charities.
Taking place on Sept. 10, NYC Still Rising After 25 Years will feature performances by Stewart and Davidson as well as Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle, Ronny Chieng, Nikki Glaser and Josh Johnson.
“We look forward to once again celebrating this great city’s tenacity, resilience, and championship heart,” Stewart and Davidson said in a statement. “And we don’t only mean our NY Knicks!”
The event is the second installment of this benefit, with the first, NYC Still Rising After 20 Years, taking place in 2021.
Tickets for the phone-free evening will go on sale Friday, with early presales starting Wednesday.
Davidson’s firefighter father famously died responding to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. And Stewart has long been a fierce advocate for 9/11 first responders, fighting for them to receive government benefits, particularly through his work on the Zadroga Act.
He also spoke about their heroism in his emotional first monologue back on The Daily Show a little over a week after the tragedy.
“Any fool can blow something up. Any fool can destroy. But to see these guys, these firefighters, these policemen and people from all over the country, literally, with buckets rebuilding, that’s extraordinary,” he said in part at the time. “That’s why we’ve already won. It’s light. It’s democracy. We’ve already won. They can’t shut that down.”
He added, “The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center and now it’s gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and labor and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can’t beat that.”
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