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Bruce Springsteen and 5 Other Memorable Moments From Stand Up for Heroes Benefit


Norah Jones, Jon Stewart, Jim Gaffigan and Mark Normand were also on the bill at the 18th annual benefit, which raised more than $29 million.

Now a senior outreach coordinator at MACV, an organization dedicated to ending veteran homelessness, Hooper told Billboard that she is finally able to receive care for a severe respiratory illness she contracted because of burn pits in Iraq. Addressing his age, Stewart, who is 61, told the crowd, “The other day, I needed my reading glasses to jerk off,” and after the guttural laughing died down, he added: “I hear the rumble of recognition.” His final bit was an extended story about his son, Nate, a sophomore in college. He opened his set by riffing on the election, and a few gasps peppered the laughter when he imagined Robert F. Kennedy saying to Donald Trump, “Now that you’ve been shot, you feel like family.” Normand also said he’d like to have sex with a non-binary person because it could be interpreted as a threesome.

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