Pat Tomasulo: TEDx Chicago 2026
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Pat Tomasulo has spent two decades making Chicago laugh, and he has turned that gift into a movement. The longtime sports anchor on WGN Morning News, a headlining stand-up comedian, and the creator and host of the late-night-style show Man of the People, Pat is one of the city’s most recognizable media personalities and comedic voices, with an hour-long special, What a Time to Be Alive, to his name.
His most personal work began with love. When his wife, Amy, was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, a rare and excruciating facial pain condition often called the “suicide disease,” Pat founded Laugh Your Face Off, an annual comedy benefit that has raised more than $5.5 million toward new treatments. As an Executive Trustee of The Facial Pain Research Foundation, he tells a story that holds love and exhaustion, laughter and hope in the same hands, the complicated, devoted truth of being a caregiver.
His most personal work began with love. When his wife, Amy, was diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia, a rare and excruciating facial pain condition often called the “suicide disease,” Pat founded Laugh Your Face Off, an annual comedy benefit that has raised more than $5.5 million toward new treatments. As an Executive Trustee of The Facial Pain Research Foundation, he tells a story that holds love and exhaustion, laughter and hope in the same hands, the complicated, devoted truth of being a caregiver.
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Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601-6530, United States
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