STAND-UP COMEDY: THE RECOVERY SHOW

🌟 We Are Not a Glum Lot: A Recovery Comedy Tour, stars LAURA HUGG and JIMMY CARRANE as they take kind, loving, and hilarious aim at 12-step culture and what it's like to be “in the rooms.”

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

LAURA HUGG is a Chicago-based stand-up comedian, sketch and improv comedy performer, director and emcee. She has performed Laugh Factory, Zanies, Second City, shows and festivals throughout the country, and currently hosts the Lincoln Lodge's monthly comedy variety show about all forms of recovery, Keep Coming Back, Laughs on a Hot Tin Roof at the Five and Dime in Evanston, and The Laughing Academy's Second-Tuesdays open mic at Granpa's Place in Glenview.

JIMMY CARRANE has been teaching and performing comedy for over 30 years. An original member of The Annoyance Theater, Jazz Freddy, and Armando at iO Chicago, he created one of the first two-person improv shows, “Naked,” with Stephanie Weir. Host of the Improv Nerd podcast he has p[erformed on stages and festivals all over the United States and can be seen in “Shinning Girls” (Apple+), “Chicago PD,” Public Enemies, “The Playboy Club,” Natural Born Killers, The Untouchables, “ER,” and “Early Edition.”

We Are Not A Glum Lot Comedy is available for your event, banquet, sponsorship potluck, group conscience or plain, ordinary, whoopee party!

* * * * * * * * *

ACADEMY AFTER HOURS is The Laughing Academy’s grown-ups-only, not-TOO-late-night performance series, bringing top-tier comics from around the country right here to YOU in Glenview!

We don't serve alcohol, but snacks and sodas are available for purchase in the lobby - So get yourself on over to Glenview Road for free parking and first-class funnies!