Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld and more lend talents to Stand Up For Heroes event

Bruce Springsteen performed for a good cause at the New York Comedy Festival’s Stand Up For Heroes event on Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden, with proceeds going to Bob Woodruff Foundation and America’s injured war veterans.
‘The Boss’ didn’t just entertain musically, he told some dirty jokes while he was at it.

“I think this is the first night of comedy for a soldiers’ audience where the entire night went by without anybody telling any dirty jokes. I don’t get it,” he told an enthused crowd, EW reports. “I can’t let that happen… Older man’s having a hard time getting an erection…”

As Woodruff’s wife Lee said at the beginning of the event, which saw wounded war veterans in attendance, “Laughter simply heals and music heals. In those moments, when the bad thing happens, and you all have experienced that, you make a choice to get bitter or better.”

Ultimate Classic Rock notes Woodruff, an ABC correspondent, almost died in 2006 while covering the Iraq war.

Springsteen wasn’t the only one telling jokes, comedy veterans Jon Stewart, Bill Cosby, Jim Gaffigan and Jerry Seinfeld also lent their talents to the good cause.

They raised $500,000, plus an additional $250,00 for Springsteen’s guitar, a private lesson with him, his mom’s lasagna and a visit to his recording studio in his home, and NBC’s Brian Williams’ tie.

image: NBC

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