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Cool Comedy • Hot Cuisine, A Tribute to Bob Saget, Raises More Than $1.2M for Scleroderma Research Foundation as Part of the 19th Annual New York Comedy Festival

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Friday, November 10, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Last night, the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) presented its annual Cool Comedy • Hot Cuisine, a tribute to Bob Saget, raising more than $1.2M for the SRF as part of the 19th Annual New York Comedy Festival.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Last night, the Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF) presented its annual Cool Comedy • Hot Cuisine, a tribute to Bob Saget, raising more than $1.2M for the SRF as part of the 19th Annual New York Comedy Festival.
  • Hirsch was a dear friend of Bob Saget and had a long and generous history of helping him to raise funds and awareness for scleroderma research.
  • I'm very grateful to her and she does a lot of work for the Scleroderma Research Foundation," adds Jeff Ross.
  • The SRF funds and facilitates the most promising, highest-quality research aimed at improved therapies and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.

Scleroderma Research Foundation Announces $1.5M Matching Gift in Honor of Bob Saget

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Thursday, January 13, 2022

Saget passionately championed the Scleroderma Research Foundation since losing his sister to the disease in 1994.

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  • Saget passionately championed the Scleroderma Research Foundation since losing his sister to the disease in 1994.
  • "Bob was the anchor of our SRF family," says Joanne Gold, Executive Director of the Scleroderma Research Foundation.
  • All donations received in honor of Bob Saget this week and going forward will be put toward the match.
  • The Scleroderma Research Foundation is focused on bringing the best minds in science together to find a cure for scleroderma.

Bob Saget and Susan Feniger host the signature event Cool Comedy - Hot Cuisine, bringing it to a global audience for the first time, streaming live on October 18, 2020

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Friday, September 18, 2020

Bob Saget, an SRF Board Member who lost his sister to scleroderma, hosts the evening alongside fellow board member and Top Chef Master, Susan Feniger.

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  • Bob Saget, an SRF Board Member who lost his sister to scleroderma, hosts the evening alongside fellow board member and Top Chef Master, Susan Feniger.
  • The show isbeing executive produced by Bob Saget and Emmy Award winning producer Joel Gallen, with support from Studio71.
  • As Bob Saget explains, his commitment is very personal; "I fortuitously became involved with the Scleroderma Research Foundation in 1992.
  • The 2020 Cool Comedy - Hot Cuisineis presented by Actelion, a Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson.