This is Kate.







Kate’s a buddy of mine. She’s a stand up comic and has a couple of podcasts, The Podcast of Comedy and Waiting for the Pizza. I’d usually see Kate at open mics and I’ve been on Waiting for the Pizza a couple of times (check out the episodes here!). She’s nice. I like her.



Kate and her partner Barb have been having a bit of trouble lately. Kate was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She went through a round of treatments, all documented about on her blog and seemed to beat it but cancer is a sneaky little fucker and found a new home in her liver. Shit went south for the treatments for that and she’s now in the hospital clinging to life. Barb has been updating all their friends via facebook and while she may turn around and recover, she may not.



All this time Barb has been at Kate’s side she hasn’t been able to work much and money was going to become a concern. To help out, some comics around town started a online charity drive to help her out. When I first thought about doing a post about this last night I thought I could help out by pimping the campaign on the site here but when I woke up this morning they were already less than $100 away from their goal.



The campaign was posted less than 48 hours ago. How fucking cool is that?



On top of that, the House of Comedy is putting on a benefit show for Kate and Barb next Tuesday and Maria Bamford is headlining!



They deserve no less. This site actually owes some of it’s readership to Barb since she emailed my “It Gets Better” letter to Phil Hinkle to Savage Love and they reposted it on their blog. I hate seeing shitty things happen to good people but it’s wonderful to see so many people rally around them in their time of need.



That’s really all this post is about today. Showing support to people who have brightened our lives. Jena and I are pulling for Kate and I invite anybody reading this to pray to their preferred god if they have one (I’m currently placing burnt offerings before a Voltron made from Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Buddha and Krishna) to get Kate through this. You can also donate to the campaign and attend the benefit show with Maria Bamford next Tuesday. The Comedy Corner Underground is having a charity show this Friday as well and I’m sure more events will pop up the next week or so because Twin Cities comics are the fucking best.