This July, CBS will broadcast two specials geared toward raising money for disadvantaged children around the world.
The first special, Why Listen, will follow six different celebrities to different countries where they'll meet children and learn about organizations designed to help them.
The second special, Listen Live, as the title indicates, will be broadcast live and will feature the usual celebrities and music acts synonymous with these kind of television events. Viewers, of course, can also call in and donate. There is no official word yet on who will appear on the two specials.
The specials are both tied to the Listen Charity, an organization that doles out funds to over two-hundred different charitable organizations for disadvantaged children.
You know how Lewis Black appears on The Daily Show once a week to talk about news stories that have "slipped through the cracks?" Well, consider this one of those "slipped through the cracks" stories that I thought was just too cool not to mention. I trust some of you haven't heard this story, but if you have, then take this time to go do something else. Make yourself a muffin, have a cup of tea. Be good to yourself.
David Walliams, one of the stars of Little Britain, is going to attempt to swim the 21 miles of the English Channel. This feat is all in the name of a charity called 
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journalism I would have been utterly thrilled by something like this. It's not many J-schools that are able to offer
such an intimate look into the mind of a famous journalist. Of course, I'm also reminded of the time I went to hear 
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