Dodgers Share Some Laughs at Will Smith’s Comedy Night
Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith and his wife, Cara, hosted the third-annual Dodgers Comedy Night on Thursday. The event served as part of the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival, and helped raise money for Smith’s charity: Catching Hope. Will and Cara Smith founded Catching Hope in 2021, hoping to “help underprivileged children with critical skills needed for leadership, self-advocacy, and self-sufficiency.
” “Catching Hope has been around for a few years now,” Smith said . “Our goal is to raise funding for kids through education and their schools. We created some reading nooks at a couple of elementary schools here.
We provide Amazon wish lists for teachers. ” “…We were just at a school in the Palisades that burned down in the fire last year. We were able to provide funding for a program for their mental health, counseling, for their lives being uprooted.
We just felt like that was an important thing that was a little bit overlooked, and wanted to provide funding for and really help those kids. ” Actor and comedian Ken Jeong hosted the event, which took place at The Saban Theater in Beverly Hills. Michelle Buteau, Ryan Hamilton, Sam Jay, Tom Papa, Frankie Quiñones and Derrick Stroup also featured in the event.
“It’s a fun night,” Smith told MLB. com . “Netflix is such a great partner; they provide such great comedians.