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■ Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Amy Schumer are part of a star-studded group of comedians that will perform for one night only at Madison Square Garden to mark the 20th anniversar­y of 9/11. All proceeds from “NYC Still Rising After 20 Years: A Comedy Celebratio­n” will benefit 9/11 charities. Proof of vaccinatio­n against the coronaviru­s will be required to attend. “We wanted to put on a fun celebratio­n to honor this great city’s resilience. It’s nice to be able to do this with friends and people we love,” Stewart said in a statement. The show is his brainchild with Pete Davidson, who will also perform. A ticket pre-sale for the Sept. 12 show begins at noon Wednesday on Live Nation, Ticketmast­er.com and MSG and runs until 10 p.m. Thursday, with general tickets on sale starting at noon Friday at Ticketmast­er.com. Bill Burr, Colin Jost, Colin Quinn, Dave Attell, Jay Pharoah, John Mulaney, Michael Che, Ronny Chieng, Tom Segura and Wanda Sykes are also in the lineup.

■ A woman who fainted and hit her head on a rock after stopping to rest in Utah’s Arches National Park woke up to hear a familiar voice and wondered if she might be watching television. Minnie John of Oradell, N.J., then questioned whether she might know the woman who was with the doctor helping her, or if she was famous, according to a post on Facebook. “Her sister the doctor asked me to guess and I told her I just hit my head, I can’t remember. She said smiling ‘Modern Family’ and I said of course!,” John recounted about how she finally recognized Julie Bowen from her role on the long-running comedy series. In her Aug. 3 post, John said she had been on a “bucket list” trip to Arches and hiking to see Delicate Arch, a four-story sandstone arch perched on the rim of a deep red rock canyon, for an hour and a half when she could not go any farther. She told her husband and son to go ahead as she rested along the trail, her head in her hands. Julie Bowen and her sister, Annie, told her that their guide had seen her fall face forward on a rock, with her glasses breaking her fall, she said. They cleaned her up and gave her electrolyt­es as Julie Bowen assured her she was going to be OK, John said. They used her phone to call her son and some people selflessly ran ahead to find him, about 20 minutes ahead, to let them know what had happened, John said. John said she fractured her nose and received five stitches later at the hospital. She expressed gratitude to God for sending people to help her. “Daredevil or dumb as can be, I still consider this trek up the mountain as one of my proudest achievemen­ts in my life. Sometimes you need to take those chances in life to live to experience heights and depths,” she wrote.

 ?? (AP/Shaji John) ?? Minnie John (center) sits with actress Julie Bowen (right) and Bowen’s sister, Dr. Annie Luetkemeye­r, after the pair cared for John after she fainted and hit her head on a rock while stopping to rest in Arches National Park, Utah, last week.
(AP/Shaji John) Minnie John (center) sits with actress Julie Bowen (right) and Bowen’s sister, Dr. Annie Luetkemeye­r, after the pair cared for John after she fainted and hit her head on a rock while stopping to rest in Arches National Park, Utah, last week.
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