11 Comedians Who Used Their Platforms For Good Causes

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11 Comedians Who Used Their Platforms For Good Causes
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Turns out, quite a few comedians used their following and/or their access to make the planet a slightly better place. Like these folks:

Trans Charity Events

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN 2014, PATTON OSWALT AND ZACH GALIFIANAKIS PERFORMED AT A TRANS CHARITY EVENT. It benefited the project TransYouth Speak, which seeks to address the intense discrimination and threats of violence faced by transgender youth every day.

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RAPHAEL BOB-WAKSBERG

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM RAPHAEL BOB-WAKSBERG USED TWITTER TO RAISE OVER $2,000 FOR TRANS LIFELINE. Не promised that he'd share a deleted Bojack Horseman joke if 100 people respond to this tweet with pics of donations they made today (any amount) to Trans Lifeline, and they did.

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