Roslindale has been comic Owen Linders’s creative center for the better part of the last five years. He, Angela Sawyer, and a few other comics run their Roslindale Comedy shows two or three times a month out of the Square Root. So when a car demolished part of the Corinth Street building that houses the venue, he and his comedian friends wanted to help.
“We reached out pretty much immediately,” says Linders. “It was a while before people even knew how much things cost because they weren’t able to assess the damage [right away].”
On April 13, Eugene Mirman will headline a benefit at The Substation in Roslindale, which will feature comedians Bethany Van Delft, Will Smalley, and Tooky Kavanagh, with Linders and Sawyer as hosts. Mirman got involved early, when a friend from Roslindale asked him if he’d participate.
“Eugene Mirman was ready to do this event before we were ready to put it together,” says Linders. “I don’t think that’s ever happened before where the star was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m in,’ and we’re like, ‘Oh, we’ve got to find a room.’ ”
“We were thinking of doing something smaller,” he continues, “like dedicating our biweekly shows in the Square Root to raise money. But having someone of his stature and talent and generosity immediately made it more doable just to have a space as big as Substation.”
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Eugene Mirman headlines a comedy benefit for Roslindale businesses hit hard by an accident