Comedians Team up for "Laugh Aid".
CAMEROTA: OK, time now for "The Good Stuff." Communities inspiring each other to persevere through the pandemic. In South Carolina, the Charleston Hospitality Group had extra food after restaurants were shut down, so this week they are making sure healthcare workers and laid off hospitality workers have enough to eat.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's very, very difficult to accomplish anything else if you're hungry. If you have a full belly, then you can have a full heart.</s>CAMEROTA: Now to Indianapolis. One couple saw a major slowdown at their Air BNB so they offered the space for free to exhausted healthcare workers, including a nurse who cannot go home because her son has leukemia.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was planning on just staying at the hospital through the weekend and it was nice to be able to get out and go somewhere else and kind of just decompress.</s>CAMEROTA: And in Richmond, Virginia, social distancing did not stop birthday celebrations for Noraburt Kapecko (ph). The World War II veteran turned 101 years old.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's just so unusual to have my neighbors come together and celebrate a birthday to an old geezer like me.</s>CAMEROTA: How can he be 101?</s>BERMAN: No one ever looked better in a hat. He looks awesome. Happy birthday to him.</s>CAMEROTA: That's incredible.</s>BERMAN: All right, more good stuff now. Some of the biggest names in comedy joining forces for "Laugh Aid," Saturday's four-hour live stream to benefit the Comedy Gives Back Emergency Relief Fund for comics affected by the pandemic. Joining us now is Bob Saget, co-host of the event. Bob, it's great to see you. Before we get into what you're doing, first, how are you doing? How are you and your family doing through all this?</s>BOB SAGET, ACTOR AND COMEDIAN: I'm good. My wife is upstairs, so we're maintaining social distance. And my daughters are in New York, which concerns me a great deal. And a lot of loved ones all over the place. We're fine. I've been using -- I made my own face mask out of my underwear.</s>CAMEROTA: Oh, God.</s>SAGET: It's hard to find humor in these times and it was a mistake because I -- you don't -- don't get it out of the hamper, people, that's all I have to say. But I'm very proud to take part in this Comedy Gives Back. And it's to support young comedians, older comedians that can't work. I mean everybody's job, if you're a comedian and if you're successful, you're very fortunate. But a lot of people aren't. There's thousands of people that applied for a grant and this organization Comedy Gives Back it putting on a telethon of sorts, a web-a-thon, for four hours, this Saturday, from 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Pacific, which is 8:00 to 12:00 because I passed math. And I want to tell you some of the comedians. Just added were Adam Sandler and Jimmy Fallon. And I'll be hosting part of it. There's other hosts as well, because it's four hours long. My friends Bill Burr and Marc Maron and Howie Mandel and Ray Romano, Maria Bamford, Iliza Schlesinger, a lot of really wonderful people. It's going to be -- everybody's only going to do like five minutes, maybe a little more. And it's probably going to be extremely heartfelt. You don't come on strong and try to do -- try to kill on something like this. It's people that have been blessed with some success in comedy, really trying to help those that need to pay medical bills, can't afford the rent, they're going deeply in debt. And a lot of them are going to be where a lot of the people are going to be where a lot of the people that are performing are going to be one day, they just have to get through this hard time. So it's comedy giving back. It's comedians giving back to their younger selves in a way.</s>CAMEROTA: Bob, it sounds great. I mean those are lots of headliners. It sounds like it's going to be really entertaining people. I just want to let them know they can watch on the Laugh Lounge app or Twitch, or Twitter, or Comedy Central's YouTube channel.</s>SAGET: Right.</s>CAMEROTA: Again, it's this Saturday from -- on the East Coast, 7:00 p.m. to 11:00. As so -- but just, as a comedian, I mean since you'll all be isolated, and you won't have a live audience, isn't it hard to be funny without hearing the laughter back?</s>SAGET: Well, all of us that are professionals and most comedians have lived that way for a long time, before</s>BERMAN: Look, we all need a laugh right now. And as you were saying, you know, you're going to town down maybe some of your comedy. I can't imagine, there's nothing funny about Covid-19.</s>SAGET: Oh, yes.</s>BERMAN: But there are new situations in all of our lives which are pretty funny. I mean we're being put in awkward situations we've never been put in before.</s>SAGET: And that's why someone like Bill Burr or Patton Oswalt is going to be on. These are people -- Marc Maron, they -- some of -- some of my peers can make those jokes and might offend some who are especially in a sensitive time, but it's not meant to do that. It's like to let the air out because it is so painful. If you can have a laugh during -- we've all been getting memes and all the things on our phones and we go, oh, my God, why would they send that? And Michael Che actually put out on his Instagram, please, no more Covid jokes. Please. Let's stop it. No more corona jokes. We've heard them all. And I don't think you're going to be hearing a lot of them on this thing. And I was wrong about the time. You're right. Because you're on CNN and I'm in my -- I'm in front of a fireplace.</s>CAMEROTA: Wearing your underwear on your head, exactly. That's right.</s>SAGET: Yes, breathing through my underwear.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes.</s>SAGET: So, yes, it's 7:00 on the East Coast on Saturday. And it's four hours long. And I used to do comic relief a lot. And that was for the homeless.</s>CAMEROTA: Well, Bob --</s>SAGET: And that was an amazing thing when HBO did that back</s>CAMEROTA: I remember. That was great. Everybody loves a free comedy show. It's going to be fantastic. I can't wait. I'm going to set my alarm right now. I can't wait to see all the comedians and you, of course, there. So, thanks so much for previewing it with us.</s>SAGET: My pleasure. And it's p.m., so you're going to set your alarm for 7:00 p.m. in New York?</s>CAMEROTA: Yes. Yes, you never know when I may be napping. That's the dirty little secret of morning -- morning show anchors.</s>SAGET: I think we're all like that. Yes. Well, thank you so much. Thank you for all you're doing.</s>CAMEROTA: Thanks so much, Bob. Great to talk to you. OK, that's enough from him. CNN's coverage of the coronavirus pandemic continues. What you need to know, next.