Stand-up comedians Bill Burr and Shane Gillis will perform A Night of Comedy to Benefit Those Affected by the Los Angeles wildfires.
In a recent interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Burr said he had to evacuate his Los Angeles home due to the wildfires. He saluted “everyone for doing a great job” despite online criticism of how the wildfires were handled and the internet opining about how the fire response was mismanaged.
“Like some (expletive) idiot on the internet knows how to manage the worst fire in L.A. sitting there in his underwear.” he joked.
Tickets for the show scheduled at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan. 27 are available via livenation.com. All proceeds from the show will benefit the Wildfire Relief Fund, which is managed by GoFundMe.org and was created to provide quick and direct relief to people in need in the aftermath of domestic U.S. wildfires by accepting and dispersing tax-deductible donations and sending out critical cash grants.
Grants are allocated to individuals, small businesses, community relief efforts and to nonprofits coordinating long-term recovery. A Live Nation press release stated that the fund has raised nearly $3.5 million from almost 31,000 donations and has sent over 500 grants out so far.
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Burr has been performing stand-up comedy since the early ’90s. He’s become one of the most prolific comedians in the last decade with Rolling Stone ranking him 17th on its list of the 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time. His approach to comedy is blunt, but his live performances are filled with authenticity and funny explanations of everyday subjects that make sense even to the most reserved haters. Burr has six Netflix comedy specials and stars in the Roku dark-comedy anthology series “Immoral Compass,” which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. He’s also hosted his “Monday Morning Podcast” since 2007 and co-founded the All Things Comedy network in 2012.
Gillis is a newer face in comedy but has become increasingly popular since first starting his stand-up career in 2012. Gillis might be best known for being hired and then almost immediately fired by Saturday Night Live when controversial jokes surfaced within hours of the announcement he’d be joining the cast in 2019. Over the next few years, he released a self-funded debut “Shane Gillis: Live in Austin,” a breakthrough hit with over 30 million views on YouTube. In 2023, he released his follow-up Netflix special, “Beautiful Dogs,” and co-created and stars in the Netflix comedy series “Tires.” Last year, the SNL fiasco came full circle and Gillis was invited back to host the show.
The benefit show hosted by Burr and Gillis is one of many efforts happening throughout Los Angeles to aid those devastated by the wildfires.