It’s not often that we get a chance to laugh in the face of cancer.

But this weekend at the Admiral Theater — 515 Pacific Ave. in Bremerton — a slate of comedians will be hosting that symbolic opportunity in the form of an event called Laugh for Life — a fund raiser for the Relay For Life campaign.

National headlining comedians Chris Wiener (Ohio) and Kermet Apio (Hawaii) will share the stage with Bremerton’s own The Great Cris and special guests. Stuart James Hager will open evening in song at 7 p.m. June 16.

Tickets range from $20 in the upper balcony to $50 on the main floor, all of which will be donated to the cause. Reservations and more information are available Online at www.admiraltheatre.org or by calling (360) 373-6743.

“The main concept is to raise awareness and let people know if you have cancer you are not alone, there are people that do care,” said Wiener, a storied veteran who will be headlining the show. “It’s a great big lovefest, that’s what it is.”

“For that two hours when the stage lights are on, no one is going to be thinking about chemo or their mortgages or anything else,” The Great Cris, Cris Larsen added. “They’re gonna be laughing.”

The event is limited to those 18 and older, not because of dirty concepts or language, but due to the fact that they will likely be dealing with heavily adult-related topics, he said.

Larsen, a 20-year veteran who has toured the country with his comedy, is also a community organizer/energizer who has been involved with nearly 1,000 benefit campaigns ranging, he said, from kidney disease research to school fund raisers to the Armed Forces Day Parade.

“This one hits home,” he said. “Everybody’s aware cancer is just one family member away.”

In his own family, Larsen has lost a sister and cousin to the disease, while one of his nephews is a survivor. Wiener knows two people who have died from cancer, and a dear friend who is a survivor along with his daughter who battled cancer twice.

So even though on stage the comedians will be seemingly obliviously joking around, they are seriously familiar with the cause.

“Just because you have cancer doesn’t mean your life is over, it just means your battling a disease and you do the best you can with it,” Wiener said. “(This) humanizes it, it brings it home.”

Last year, both he and Larsen played to the crowd for the first annual Laugh for Life and each deemed the event a success.

“It went up to this peak and it just stayed there,” Wiener said.

This year’s event promises four starkly different forms of comedy, a few surprises and an evening of laughter, Larsen said.

“If you want to see a great act that you will probably never see again … this is it,” he added. “For all the right reasons … you’ll get a laugh out of it and research will get a bang.”