Dr. Vien Phommachan, who plays Floridian Social in St. Petersburg, Florida on Oct. 5, 2024.
For nearly two decades now, Tampa Bay’s Crack Up Cancer has used comedy to support local cancer patients and their families in their time of need.

And this year, there’ll be a doctor in the house, too, thanks to Dr. Vien Phommachan (pictured) who is one of five comics set to take the stage.

Others on the bill include Tampa favorite Matt Fernandez, the eternally sassy Hugh Carey, Cape Coral’s Sheena Regan, and Christian comedian Danny Johnson.

Tickets to the 17th annual Crack Up Cancer comedy benefit happening Saturday, Oct. 5 at St. Petersburg’s Floridian Social are still available for $25.

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This article appears in Best of The Bay 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...