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TONIGHT’S PROGRAM
5:30 p.m.
Cocktails and Silent Auction
6:30 p.m.
Introduction and Welcome
Mo Collins, Emcee
COMEDY
FOR A
CURE
2012
Sponsor and Committee Recognition
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Henry Shapiro, Chair, TS Alliance Board of Directors
Christy Hobart, Co-founder, Comedy for a Cure
Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance Update
Kari Luther Rosbeck, President and CEO
Presentation to Our Comedy for a Cure Honoree
Beth Lewin Dean
Video Presentation
7:00 p.m.
Live Auction
with Auctioneer Damon Casatico
Entertainment
The Lampshades: A lounge act with Kate Flannery from THE OFFICE
and Scot Robinson from ANCHORMAN
Adam Carolla
HONOREE
Beth Lewin Dean,
Vice President of Epilepsy, Lundbeck
HONORARY COMMITTEE
COMEDY
2012
Karen Hermelin,
TSC Clinic Director, Loma Linda University
School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Paramount Pictures
Margaret Cho
David Kaminow,
Mo Collins
FOR A
CURE
Stephen Ashwal, MD,
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Marcia Cross
Jane Lynch
Loretta Devine
Bill Maher
Hon. Christopher J. Dodd
Julianne Moore
Donald Faison
Lisa Pinto
Helena Foulkes,
Kyle Richards
CVS Caremark
Hon. Loretta Sanchez
Josh Goldstine,
Universal Pictures
Brian Gott,
Variety
Shenae Grimes
Greg Grunberg,
TalkAboutIt.org
Tom Sherak
W. Donald Shields, MD,
UCLA, Department of Pediatric Neurology
Arnold Vosloo
Hon. Henry A. Waxman
Joyce Y. Wu, MD,
Stephen Adly Guirgis
TSC Clinic Director, UCLA, Department
of Pediatric Neurology
Michael Hansen,
CeCe Yorke,
mhpr
True Public Relations
Patricia Heaton
Jeff Zucker,
Jonathan Helfgot,
Executive Producer, Katie
20th Century Fox
EMCEE
Mo Collins
ENTERTAINMENT
The Lampshades: A lounge act with
Kate Flannery from THE OFFICE
and Scot Robinson from ANCHORMAN
COMEDY
FOR A
CURE
2012
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Adam Carolla
PRODUCTION TEAM
Blue Room Events
RFPR, Inc.
Tom Bercu Presents
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Tresha Bisang
George and Laura Braunstein
Olivia Braunstein
Mark and Kelly Carroll
Alfred and April Cooper
Julia George
Dr. Rick and Jennifer Glassman
Mark Hyman, MD
Michelle Ingram
Edina Kiss
Cathy Krinsky
David and Jan Mintz
Henry Shapiro and Christy Hobart
Chris Sheffield
Patrick Sheffield
Annie Szilagyi
Rob and Lisa Szilagyi
Cece Webb
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Lundbeck
Variety
GOLD SPONSOR
Novartis
SILVER SPONSORS
COMEDY
FOR A
CURE
2012
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C&C Market Research
Emily’s Fan Club
Entertainment Works Inc.
Hyman and Raiss Families
Intellisurvey
Keurig
Jim and Andrea Maginn
MarketCast
Questcor
Twentieth Century Fox
WNC & Associates
PATRON & PROGRAM SPONSORS
Adelphi Group
Edelman
Facilitate Ltd.
Haapanen Brothers
ICON
JPL Cares
Kindle Communications
Carrie & Kevin Martin
Paramount Pictures
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
BJ’s
Classic Party Rentals
Crater Lake
Sonny Alexander Flowers
Studio RFD
Quick Test, Inc.
R&R Healthcare Communications
Randstad Pharma
Scout Marketing
Science Branding Communications
Topin & Associates
UCB Pharma
U.S. Bank
ADAM CAROLLA
Comedian
Adam Carolla is one of the most versatile men in Hollywood.
After cutbacks forced Adam to quit his syndicated self-titled Adam Carolla Show broadcast
on CBS radio, Adam started The Adam Carolla Podcast with only a computer and a
microphone from his home office in February 2009. A year later, the podcast was named
iTunes #1 Podcast Of 2009, receives more than five million downloads a month, and has been
featured in Fast Company Magazine, Entrepreneur, the NY Times, and the LA Times. His
immediate success prompted Adam to launch an entire online network, ACE Broadcasting,
in February 2010, which produces many of iTunes’ top podcast programming.
Adam became a New York Time’s best-selling author when his book, In 50 Years We’ll All Be
Chicks stayed on the charts for ten weeks. The audio version went straight to the #1 position
on iTunes and remains there today. His e-book, Rich Man Poor Man is available on iTunes.
Adam’s Not Taco Bell Material, will be released in June 2012 from Random House Publishing.
Before running his own online empire, Adam hosted the Adam Carolla Show broadcast, which aired on CBS radio stations in Los
Angeles, Portland and Las Vegas. The four-hour weekday morning program was syndicated in several major markets, including
Seattle, Sacramento and Fresno, among others. Carolla wrote, co-produced and starred in the independent boxing feature film The
Hammer. The Hammer made its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Earlier this year Carolla was seen
as a contestant on ABC’s hit reality series Dancing with the Stars. Additionally, Carolla has hosted Comedy Central’s Too Late with
Adam Carolla and starred in TLC’s The Adam Carolla Project, which chronicled the renovation and subsequent sale of his boyhood
home. Adam also appeared in this year’s current season of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice.
Following brief stints as a skilled carpenter and boxing trainer, he began his career in radio after answering an ad seeking a boxing
instructor to train then radio personality Jimmy Kimmel of KROQ’s KEVIN AND BEAN SHOW in Los Angeles. He eventually joined
the show’s repertoire as Mr. Birchum, a wood shop teacher. Carolla’s success on KROQ led to a hosting job on the nationally
syndicated radio program Loveline, with Dr. Drew Pinsky. MTV developed a television version of the show, which was co-hosted
by Carolla and Pinsky for five seasons (1996-2000). The duo also authored The Dr. Drew and Adam Book: A Survival Guide to Life
and Love.
Adam also appeared in two hit Comedy Central shows, The Man Show (1999-2003) and Crank Yankers (2002-present). A native of
Southern California, Carolla currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Lynette, and their two twins.
KATE FLANNERY
Comedian
Kate Flannery portrays Dunder Mifflin’s alcoholic, accident prone, Meredith
Palmer on NBC’s The Office. Flannery has recently appeared as a guest on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,
Chelsea Lately and Carson Daly.
Her television appearances include
performing at this year’s 2011 Emmy Awards as part of the Emmytones,
Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, Last Comic Standing, The
Bernie Mac Show, Boomtown, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and she was the
voice of “Lucy” in a Robert Smigel cartoon on Saturday Night Live.
Last year Kate returned to the New York stage and starred in Nora Ephron’s
Love, Loss and What I Wore and at Joe’s Pub with her cult comedy lounge
act, THE LAMPSHADES, which she continues to perform regularly in
Hollywood (www.thelampshades.com). Kate was seen this past December
co-starring in the Hallmark Channel’s The Christmas Pageant opposite Melissa Gilbert and is also the voice of Wendy in
all the Wendy’s Hamburgers commercials.
Flannery played Neely O’Hara in the Off Broadway hit Valley of the Dolls at the Circle in the Square and LA’s Coast
Playhouse. A former member of Second City’s National Tour Co., she is an original member of Chicago’s Annoyance
Theater where she co created over 15 shows, including the Miss Vagina Pageant and The Real Live Brady Bunch, which
played over 30 cities and at the Kennedy Center.
Kate graduated from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where her family owned a bar.
DAMON CASATICO
Professional Auctioneer
Damon is the founder and President of Charity Benefit Auctions with offices in
Mission Viejo and Danville, California. Charity Benefit Auctions reaches over
250,000 people per year, influencing the lives of more than a million people
through events like this. Serving many different types of non-profit organizations
as well as the private education market sector, Charity Benefit Auctions has
emerged as America’s premier benefit auction company. Using their high-energy,
live auction method of marketing they have completely revolutionized successful
benefit auctions conducted today.
Damon lives with his wife Dawn and two daughters Isabella and Sophia in Danville, California and has been a proud
partner of the TS Alliance. Damon has been dedicated to helping us maximize our fundraising potential for the last
eleven years.
We wouldn’t be where we are today without this extraordinary man. Damon has been a wonderful friend to Comedy
for a Cure and to the TS Alliance.
Damon can be reached through Charity Benefit Auctions at (925) 997-7355.
BETH DEAN
Honoree
Beth Dean is a long-time champion for people impacted by seizures. At Lundbeck,
she played a key role in bringing forward the first FDA-approved treatment for
Infantile Spasms, a devastating seizure disorder common to those with tuberous
sclerosis complex. Lundbeck acquired this treatment after its development was
sidetracked for more than a decade, and Dean was part of a dedicated team that
overcame numerous obstacles to ultimately win FDA approval.
Beyond her role supporting Lundbeck’s therapies available to people in the
U.S. with severe seizure disorders, Dean personifies Lundbeck’s commitment
to supporting the epilepsy community. Dean and her colleagues at Lundbeck
are familiar faces at more than 100 awareness and advocacy events across the country each year and are constant
supporters of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance’s awareness and fund-raising efforts.
Dean received her bachelor’s degree in political science and environmental studies at Cornell College, then earned
a master’s degree in public affairs and environmental studies at Indiana University. In 2000, she received another
master’s degree in business administration at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
THE FIGHT AGAINST TUBEROUS
SCLEROSIS COMPLEX
Your presence tonight makes a direct difference in the lives of thousands
affected by TSC.
Over the past 38 years, we’ve experienced many
successes in our quest to find a cure for TSC. But our story is not one of
pity as thousands and thousands of people with TSC – and their families
– live each day facing unimaginable circumstances. Yet they carry on,
with courage and dignity and inexhaustible determination.
Not coincidentally, the possibility of a cure is closer than ever. Your financial support helps the TS Alliance
provide resources and services so individuals with TSC and their families can meet the daily challenges caused
by the devastating disorder. Moreover, every dollar spent finding cures and treatments for TSC can bring
about quantum leaps in the cures for autism, epilepsy and cancer – diseases that touch most everyone
all of us know and love. This means your sponsorship will create real, tangible hope.
TSC causes tumors to form in vital organs such as the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, skin, liver and lungs. These
tumors can lead to uncontrollable seizures, autism, heart disease, cognitive disabilities, facial disfigurement
and kidney failure. In fact, TSC is the number one known genetic cause of both epilepsy and autism.
Living with TSC has been compared to walking blindfolded through a
minefield, because you never know when another symptom will appear or how
serious it will be. Anyone who has seen the destructive effects of TSC knows how
important it is to find a cure.
THE TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE
The Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance (TS Alliance) is the only
national organization dedicated to finding a cure for tuberous
sclerosis complex (TSC) while improving the lives of those
affected.
Four mothers from Southern California with a dream formed
the TS Alliance to provide fellowship, generate awareness,
pursue knowledge and provide hope to those who shared
the unfortunate common bond of tuberous sclerosis
complex (TSC). These goals remain the driving force of the
organization today.
Thirty-eight years later, the TS Alliance is the only organization able to rally the financial resources, the
research, the partnerships, and the sheer will of TSC-affected families and individuals to break the back
of this “linchpin” disease. You being here tonight makes the possibility of finding a cure closer than ever,
because your support provides more crucial funding.
Platinum Sponsor
Platinum Sponsor
Gold Sponsor
Silver Sponsor
Your support of the TS Alliance has made
a difference in our lives.
And we thank you.
Especially
Grandma Buckeroo
and Papa Jim
Silver Sponsor
Questcor
Proud Sponsor of the
Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
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Congratulations to
Beth Lewin Dean
and
We are grateful to all those who
dedicate their time and resources
to finding a cure for TSC.
We feel so blessed.
A Heartfelt THANK YOU
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The Hyman and Raiss Families
Silver Sponsor
Thank you
to the
TSAlliance
and all of the people
who work so hard to
find a cure
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Emily Szilagyi and Family
Patron Sponsor
Patron Sponsor
We are amazed and impressed by the way TSC families find ways to
laugh and smile through the daily challenges of living with tuberous
sclerosis complex. We celebrate together much joy, regular crazy stories
(comedians take note!), and, even through the often heartbreak
of medical issues, we celebrate each other with tons of love.
And we celebrate you… for joining us in the fight to unlock the cure.
Thank you to people like Beth Lewin Dean, who with medical and research
teams, our extraordinary staff, committed volunteers, and leaders like
Henry Shapiro, we are certain to achieve our goals.
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The Lauren Krinsky Family
Proud Supporter of the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
Adelphi Research is pleased to support this year’s
Comedy for a Cure 2012 event for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.
It’s a special honor to recognize Beth Lewin Dean’s
extraordinary efforts to help further the fight against TSC.
Congratulations Beth!
Your Friends at R&R.
We love and admire you
Benjamin, Christy, Henry & Maisie Shapiro.
Your hard work and dedication
inspire us every day.
With love, from the Martin family-Carrie, Kevin, Charlie & Andy
Beer Sponsor
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We proudly support
TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE
and are thrilled to be part
of such an incredible event.
Kudos to the hard working staff and committee!
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proudly supports the
Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
On behalf of the thousands and
thousands of individuals and families
in the United States affected by
tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC),
the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance
Board of Directors, Staff and
Volunteers want to sincerely thank
Beth Lewin Dean
for her unwavering commitment
to the TSC community. We are proud
to have you as a partner.
Congratulations!
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!
For those of you who have joined the
ETERNAL FLAME SOCIETY
by including the
TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE
ENDOWMENT FUND
in your will or trust.
For more information contact:
TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS ALLIANCE ENDOWMENT FUND
800.225.6872
801 Roeder Road, Suite 750 Silver Spring, MD 20910