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Honor Shearer, Peter Barrera, Justin Foster, and Aaron Aryanpur think they're funny. Here's betting they're right.
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The world has enough stuffy black-tie, silent-auction fundraisers. What it doesn't have is enough laughter or money to find a cure for children's neuroblastoma cancer.
Four Dallas comedians — organized by University Park resident and funny-lady Honor Shearer — aim to balance the scales a bit starting at 7 p.m. Sept. 24. Shearer, along with Aaron Aryanpur, Peter Barrera, and Justin Foster, bring their special brand of verbal tomfoolery to the Lakewood Theater that night in a benefit show, called Stand-Up for Life, for Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation and Lunch for Life, two nonprofit organizations supporting neuroblastoma research and education.
Shearer hatched the idea with a friend, the father of a child diagnosed with neuroblastoma, during a visit to a park. The father, David Podeszwa, already was part of Lunch for Life, a program in which he urged friends and co-workers to pass on lunch for one day and donate the money to cancer research they would have used for a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, a large fries, and large Diet Coke. Sounds kind of like a win-win, really.
From there, the trip to a comedy concert didn't take long. The trip took a lot less time, Shearer said, because the comics have worked as hard promoting the show as they do sharpening their routines.
