Barry Crimmins made his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, and as you probably know, he, unfortunately, died of cancer this year. In celebration of his life, a number of comedians will be performing a benefit show in his honor at the New Town Theatre in Edinburgh on Thursday, 8/16. Proceeds are being donated to Helen Crimmins (Barry’s widow) to cover the costs of her cancer treatment. Sadly, tickets are apparently not selling well. So if you’re going to be in Edinburgh this week, you can book tickets for the show – a bargain at £10, which is like $13 – here. I can’t make it to Scotland, but I booked a ticket anyway. So, you know, you could so that if you wanted. Though it’d be better to have a full house rather than a bunch of empty seats. I only have two regrets – first, that it isn’t like the “old days” when lots of people from all over the world came and at least lurked here (probably would have been able to drum up a few ticket sales), and second, that Barry is gone while Henry Kissinger still draws breath. If that’s not a clear sign that there either is no god or that if there is, god’s a prick, I don’t know what is.