Bob Saget Shines a Light on Scleroderma With Cool Comedy -- Hot Cuisine

In 1982, management consultant and former competitive figure skater, Sharon Monsky was diagnosed with scleroderma (in Latin "hard skin") a rare, potentially fatal disease that hardens the skin and internal organs and often strikes women of child-bearing age. Given two years to live, Sharon was shocked at how few, even in the medical community, were aware of the disease. Her response was to make possible what seemed impossible. She applied her business expertise to found the Scleroderma Research Foundation (S.R.F.), which, to date, has raised over 35 million dollars and provided medical breakthroughs through tireless research, and new medications. Sharon lived two full decades after her original prognosis, passing away in 2002 due to complications from scleroderma. Sharon Monsky (photo courtesy of S.R.F.) When Sharon started S.R.F. in 1987, she enlisted her talented chef friends, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken, who agreed to use their popular L.A. restaurant for a comedy fundraiser for scleroderma. The first comedian who agreed to do the benefit was Robin Williams (a regular of Feniger/Milliken's restaurant) who played to a room of about 150 people. The scleroderma benefits grew in scale and became known as Cool Comedy -- Hot Cuisine, a fantastic annual event (in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles) with the nation's top comedic and musical talents performing along with Feniger and Milliken's multi-course feasts. Williams did the show seven times. During S....
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