Mon. Nov. 9

 Veteran Boston comic Kevin Knox has a line about what somewhat faces when they've got stage 4 malignant melonoma. "There is no stage 5," he says. This is not one of Denis Leary's "No Cure for Cancer" jokes; this is real and that's the disease that Knox is battling. Note: Five yeas ago doctors - as they will do - said he had six months to live. What's going on, is this: A series of benefits that concludes Mondays Nov. 9, with  a group of comics calling themselves "Knoxie's Team" performing to help support Knox and cover bills as he goes through a regiment of chemotherapy. Dick Doherty, longtime Boston comic (longer than Knox) and owner of Dick Doherty's Beantown Vault at Remington's Restaurant is inviting Knox's buds, Greg Howell, Jim Lauletta, Corey Rodrigues, Dave Russo, Chris Zito, Mike MacDonald, Paul D'Angelo, Mike Koutrobis and others to take the mike. (Doherty will do so do, too.) Truly, in Boston, no one tries to take care of their own more than comics. It's worth stating that "all proceeds" go to Knox, not that dubious "portion of the proceeds" thing that many benefits turn out to be. Doherty says it will go on unitl "Kevin is okay while he copes and defeats cancer once again. This is not a favor to Kevin; it's repayment for the favors and support he has given so many comedians over the years," Tickets are but $15 and are tax-deductible. The show begins at 8:30.

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