SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
A benefit show for lymphoma awareness.
Stand-Up to Cancer
🎗️ come laugh. it helps.
You could stay home and doom scroll for
three hours.
Or you could sit in a room with 200 people and actually laugh like a person again.
We’re putting on a stand-up show.
Good comics. Tight room. No filler.
Some money goes to the American Cancer Society.
Some goes to making the night happen.
All of it goes toward something real.
💖 Why this exists
This show is for my mom.
She’s been dealing with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for seven years.
She’s also the loudest person in any room she walks into.
She’s a music teacher.
So naturally, she sings. Everywhere.
Chemo waiting room? Singing.
Full volume. No hesitation.
Like the place had a two-drink minimum.
The nurses knew exactly when she arrived.
Not because they saw her.
Because they heard her.
And of course… everyone loved it.
Which says a lot about her.
This night comes from that energy.
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We partnered with the American Cancer Society for this.
They do real work.
We raise money for it..
Event Details
Comedy for Cancer
📍 Archer Music Hall – The Arrow Room
📅 Saturday, September 12th, 2026
🕖 Doors: 6:00 PM · Show: 7:00 PM
🎤 A lineup of the Lehigh Valley’s best comics
plus a national headliner (announced May 10)
Small room. Good crowd. Real show.
About 175–200 seats.
Close enough that you can’t fake laugh.
Not that you’ll need to.
🏛️ About the Venue
The Arrow Room sits inside Archer Music Hall in downtown Allentown.
It’s new. It’s clean. It doesn’t smell like spilled beer
from 2007.
We’re setting it up for comedy, not a concert.
So you’ll actually see the show.
🎟️ Tickets Available Soon
General Admission — $75
VIP — $125
VIP gets you:
Early entry
Better seats
Slightly more legroom (emotionally, not physically)
Tickets go live soon via Ticketmaster.
They will sell out.
Not fake “selling out soon.” Actual selling out.
THE LINE UP
EMCEE
KATE HUGHES
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Kate Hughes is a comedian, overthinker, and professional finder of awkward situations. Her stand-up mixes brutally honest storytelling with sharp observations about relationships, anxiety, adulthood, and the weird things people pretend are normal. Audiences love her quick wit, unfiltered perspective, and ability to make life’s disasters sound oddly inspirational.
Beyond stand-up, Kate is an award-winning film actor who has appeared in independent films and local commercial campaigns. A familiar voice and personality throughout the Lehigh Valley, she spent more than a decade hosting a talk radio show and continues to emcee events across the region with the same sharp humor and engaging presence that define her comedy. Kate is also a producer, writer, and playwright whose work blends storytelling, authenticity, and comedy into performances that are both hilarious and deeply human.
HIGHLIGHT
doug mchizzle
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Born and raised in Yonkers and Dobbs Ferry, NY. A child of the 80’s and lifetime fan of standup comedy. His biggest inspiration is Richard Pryor. In 4th grade, Doug wrote a story about how he wanted to do what Pryor does…make people laugh. Doug started writing jokes when he was 12. It wasn’t until a comedian friend of his convinced him get over his nerves and try it. And now, fifteen years of being a standup comedian, Doug is living out his childhood dream of making people laugh.
FEATURE
RYAN ROSSELL
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If Ryan is trying too hard to make you laugh please just ignore him, because that means he's been day drinking again, which is why his bio looks like this.
SPOTLIGHT
JOSIAH JAMES
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Josiah James got his start in comedy as an original member of the improv troupe The Associated Mess in the early 2000s, where he first met fellow comedian Ryan Rossell. He began performing stand-up comedy in 2008 and has since become a familiar face in the Lehigh Valley comedy scene.
His comedy mixes sharp observations, layered wordplay, and the confident energy of a guy explaining something he absolutely should’ve let go of already.
Josiah was a quarterfinalist in the Lehigh Valley’s Funniest Comedian Festival and was voted a Fan Favorite at the 2026 Allentown Comedy Festival.
Outside of stand-up, Josiah also appears in an upcoming horror feature film alongside Bethlehem native Daniel Roebuck, set for release later this year.
A national headliner will be performing at THIS SHOW AND WILL BE ANNOUNCED oN MAY 10th.
WHO’S HEADLINING?
Erica Rhodes
Erica Rhodes is one of Deadline Hollywood’s Comics to Watch for 2026 and a breakout favorite from America’s Got Talent. She is currently on her CALL ME CRAZY tour, performing to packed rooms across the country.
Erica’s comedy has been featured on America’s Got Talent, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Just For Laughs, Don’t Tell Comedy, Comics Unleashed, @midnight, NBC’s Bring the Funny, CW’s Howie Mandel Comedy Extravaganza, and Fox’s Punchline. She was a New Face at the 2018 Just for Laughs Festival and has performed at JFL Bermuda and Vancouver, Netflix Is a Joke Fest, Moontower Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, and San Francisco Sketchfest. Sofia Vergara called Erica “the best comedy act she has ever seen on AGT,” and Bring the Funny judge Jeff Foxworthy described her as “the best-defined comic voice of the competition.”
Erica was a semi-regular performer and writer on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion. She can be seen in Modern Family, VEEP, New Girl, Audible’s Dr. Katz: The Audiobook, ABC’s The Off-Season, and voiced the scene-stealing character “Dotty” in Netflix’s A Tale Dark and Grimm.
Her comedy albums Sad Lemon and Ladybug both debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy charts. Her Dry Bar special Love You More has over 2 million views on YouTube, and her second special, La Vie en Rhodes, premiered as part of the Tribeca Drive-In Festival and streams on Amazon. Her two Don’t Tell Comedy sets have amassed over 1 million views.
💵 Donations
Can’t make it?
Or you just feel like being a decent person?
Here’s where that happens.
🙌 Supporter Levels
Tickets fill the room.
This helps make the night happen.
🎟️$25 —“First note”
Name on websitE
Social shoutout
🎟️ $50 —“in tune”
Everything above
Name added to event supporter wall
🎟️$100 —“on beat”
Everything above
Digital thank-you (not cheesy, just clean)
🎟️ $250 —“harmony”
Name in printed program
Priority supporter recognition online
🎟️ $500 —“crescendo”
Name mentioned during
the showProgram + website feature
🤝 Sponsorship Packages
If you have a business—or just want your name on things—this is your section.
📣 $1,000 —THE arrangement
Logo on website
Social mentions
2 VIP tickets
Program listing
📣 $2,500 — THE sonata
Logo on all promo materials
On-stage shoutout
4 VIP tickets
Premium placement
📣 $5,000 — THE symphony
Top billing everywhere
Stage mention + spotlight
8 VIP tickets
Your logo will be unavoidable
✨ Want to Donate a Custom Amount?
Custom amount works too.
No one has ever regretted generosity.
Plenty of people regret buying crypto.
🎤 Let’s turn laughter into action.
We’re aiming to raise $50,000.
Big number. But SO Worth it.
