Celebrities touched by cancer in some way got together for “Stand Up to Cancer,” an hour-long, commercial-free fundraising show aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS. If you missed the show and want to help, you can still make your donation at StandUp2Cancer.org (here is where your money is going and why!).

“This is an absolutely historic night, thanks to the unbelievable generosity of the three networks,” producer and cancer survivor Laura Ziskin told the audience at the Kodak Theatre before the show began.

“We hope we’re going to make you laugh, and I know we’re going to make you cry, so I have some party favors,” she said as she tossed packets of Kleenex into the crowd.

Cancer survivors Lance Armstrong and Elizabeth Edwards kicked off the program with statistics: Cancer kills 550,000 Americans and six million people worldwide each year.

“That’s the equivalent of 9/11 every two days,” Armstrong said.

Fabulous celebrities at StandUp2Cancer include: America Ferrera, Jennifer Garner, Salma Hayek, Kate Bosworth, Ellen Degeneres, Christina Ricci, Sharon Osbourne, Mandy Moore, Jimmy Fallon, Melissa Ethridge, Camila Alves, Fran Drescher, Dana Delany, Elizabeth Berkley, Casey Affleck, Charles Barkley, Shemar Moore, Forest Whitaker, Tony Hawk, Neil Patrick Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Marg Helgenberger, Melina Kanakarades and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

If you want to look as beautiful as Salma and Kate, as cute as Jennifer or as hot as Shemar, buy the StandUP2Cancer t-shirts here�

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