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As we told you last week, local comedian Pat Thornton is performing twenty-four hours of stand-up comedy as part of the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Dare to Remember campaign. He is currently just past the fifteen-hour mark, is looking disheveled, but is still bravely firing jokes, and when Torontoist checked in at 7 a.m., he was on a Nelly Furtado/ roll. Comedy gold! According to his fundraising profile, Thornton has raised 93% of his three-thousand-dollar goal. Him and his few core supporters will be at Comedy Bar until 6 p.m. tonight and on your internet machine until the same time. He will pretty much read anything you write on the live-stream site. Recipe for a good day.

You know the old saying: laughter is the best philanthropy. Earlier this month, the Stephen Lewis Foundation, in an effort to further fund its community-driven education and action programs in AIDS-ravaged Africa, launched the A Dare to Remember program—individuals take on dares (no wiener truths) and get cash sponsorship for seeing it through. Local actor and comedian Pat Thornton was recently challenged to participate, and came up with an idea that was, in hindsight, possibly on the overachiever's side of dares. "I was walking by a canvasser on the street and he recognized me because he was an editor on a show I was on. He said I would be great for their Dare to Remember program, so I talked to some friends and came up with the idea of doing stand-up comedy for twenty-four hours. I don't know why I said twenty-four hours...I think people would have been impressed if I said six."