From left: Gary Gulman, Robert Kelly, Denis Leary, Jimmy Fallon, Lenny Clarke, Tracy Morgan and Kenny Rogerson at Comics Come Home 19

Forget about the lies your parents told you when you were growing up: Excessive cursing is fine. Well, as long as it's in the name of a good cause.

Expletives flew every which way at the Comics Come Home charity comedy show Saturday night at Boston University's Agganis Arena. The 19th annual event benefitted the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care, for which Comics Come Home has raised more than $6 million since the first show in 1995. Neely was on hand for the event, though he left the jokes (um, why didn't he do this scene live?) to his stable of comedic cohorts led by host and Worcester-bred funnyman Denis Leary, who came on stage duel-wielding middle fingers and singing a Comics Come Home version of "It's Only Rock and Roll" with his band The Enablers.

Leary spent most of his in-between-acts time riffing on various Boston-based bits, such as one Red Sox fan's ability to "p*** and puke at the same time" without getting either on him during the World Series celebration. A ridiculously slimmed-down and buff Lenny Clarke, sporting tight, bright orange pants (Leary backstage: "F***** traffic cone") came out firing about Governor "Devil" Patrick for his lockdown policies during Hurricane Sandy and the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects ("They finally let us out -- and we find the guy in two minutes"). Gary Gulman talked about how happy he was to be back where "everyone who owns their own furniture store feels qualified to do their own commercials.



But the diverse slate of comedians didn't just stick to Beantown humor. America's Got Talent runner-up Tom Cotter filled sentence after sentence with a barrage of one-liners that blended into other one-liners (e.g. "I was lucky enough to see (my wife)... get hit by a snow plow. It was awkward for me because I've never driven a snow plow before"). Kenny Rogerson joked about not letting his life be run by bulbs (i.e. traffic lights, flashlights, or cops, a.k.a., "bulb-masters"). Former SNL writer John Mulaney (my MVP of the night) had a bunch of good bits about weed dealers and about the phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" Robert Kelly riffed on fat guys and his occasional six-second fantasies of his wife's death, and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan somehow found a way to fit the term "mutha-******" into every sentence.

But the most creative and funny act wasn't standup -- it was Jimmy Fallon doing the Reading Rainbow theme song in the style of Jim Morrison. Yep, that's right -- watch it on Tout @sweetestpete.