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“Amazing Grace” show helps ailing woman

Some of you may remember Grace White from our recent comedy benefit for the Benicia Vallejo Humane Society. Grace is known as the "hippie" comic. She came to comedy late in life and has enjoyed a second career making people laugh. She was very funny and a delight to meet.

Grace was recently diagnosed with cancer and is having a hard time. Rich Freedman from the Vallejo Times Herald, Pepper Belly's and many of Grace's comedy friends are coming together to help her out. I assure you a wonderful night of good laughs and good hearts. Please join us!

Bay Area stand-up comics Johnny Steele and Bob Sarlatte plus national headliner Rocky LaPorte are among the comics performing Thursday, January 24th at 7:30 pm.

The show, “Amazing Grace: Comics Unite to Fight Cancer,” at Pepper Belly’s Comedy and Variety Theatre in Fairfield, will help stand-up comic Grace White, a resident of Colfax in the Gold Country.

Steele, a past winner of the San Francisco Stand-Up Competition, joins Sarlatte, a veteran San Francisco comic, voice actor and pubic address announcer for the San Francisco 49ers.

Other comics confirmed include LaPorte, voted “Best Male Comic of the Year” by the Las Vegas Tourist Bureau, Aundre the Wonderwoman, Howie Nave of “The Improv” in Lake Tahoe, Fairfield comedian Clark Taylor and Pine Sol lady, Diane Amos.

Howie Nave, the host and producer of the Improv at Harvey’s in South Lake Tahoe and host of the “Howie’s Morning Rush” morning show on KRLT in Tahoe, also appears.

Rocky LaPorte says “While some of us are long-time friends of Graces’s, some haven’t even met her. But we understand what it is to go without health insurance or go without being able to pay some bills. This show won’t only help her financially, but, hopefully, lift her spirits."

Other comics are expected to be added later.

General admission tickets for the 7:30 pm show are $20 and on sale at Pepper Belly’s. Call 707.422-SHOW or www.pepperbellys.com for tickets and information.