Comics Come Home is an annual charity stand-up comedy festival held in Boston, Massachusetts.
The event, co-founded by comedian Denis Leary (who remains its curator and presenter) and hockey hall of famer Cam Neely,[1] was first held in 1995 and is now the longest-running comedy fundraiser in the United States.
[2] Since its inception, funds raised from the festival have been donated to the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care.
[2] Neely played with the Boston Bruins and later became team president; after his mother died of cancer in 1987 and his father in 1993, he founded the charity in 1995 and that same year asked Leary if he were interested in orchestrating a Boston-based comedy benefit show.
[7] In 2017, John Mayer appeared at the festival, playing guitar as Leary and Jimmy Fallon sang a cover of Aerosmith's "Walk This Way".