Mission:
Hurricane Katrina
Where there's laughter...there's hope.
In its 20th anniversary year, Comic Relief put on an effort to help raise funds for Hurricane Katrina victims and animal rescue operations in time of natural disasters.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal has created one of the most versatile and prolific careers in the entertainment industry, finding success in front of the camera, as a performer in film and television, and behind the scenes as a writer, director and producer.
In 1977, he became a regular on the popular series "Soap" playing the first openly gay character on a network television series. During the 1984-85 television seasons, Billy met with phenomenal national success on "Saturday Night Live." In 1991, he created, wrote and produced the critically acclaimed HBO series "Sessions." He has hosted the Grammy Awards three times and, of course, the Oscars eight times.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is one of a very elite group of artists who have won the Academy Award ("Ghost," 1991), the Golden Globe ("The Color Purple," 1985 and "Ghost," 1991), the Emmy (as host of AMC's "Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel," 2002), the Grammy ("Whoopi Goldberg," 1985) and a Tony (Producer of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," 2002).
She began performing at age eight in New York with the Children's Program at the Hudson Guild and the Helena Rubinstein Children's Theatre. In 1975, she moved to San Diego, where she appeared in the San Diego Repertory Theatre's productions of Bertold Brecht's "Mother Courage" and Marsha Norman's "Getting Out," and honed her comedic skills as part of an improvisational group called Spontaneous Combustion.
Robin Williams
An Academy Award-winning actor and a multiple Grammy-winning performer unparalleled in the scope of his imagination, Robin Williams continues to add to his repertoire of indelible characters.
In 1997, Williams received Academy and Screen Actors Guild awards for his performance as Sean Maguire, the therapist who counsels Matt Damon’s title character—a math genius—in Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting. The Academy previously nominated Williams for best actor in The Fisher King, Dead Poets Society, and Good Morning Vietnam. Williams garnered a special honor from the National Board of Review for his performance opposite Robert DeNiro in Awakenings. In 2004, Williams received the prestigious Career Achievement Award from the Chicago International Film festival and, in 2005, the HFPA honored him with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment.
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