Early Performance Comedy: LaReesa Orton, Mike Cooper & Holly Hardin

LaReesa Orton has been performing comedy for a year and a half, adding public speaking to her resume in the last year. She’s a graduate of laughing skull lounge comedy class, punchlines, Jeff justice, comedy writers, workshops, levels, one and two, as well as select stages during Hollywood Burbank comedy festival, August 2024. Most recently, she performed in Keenan. Thompson presents: Road to Vegas, earning an honorable mention from Hollywood directors earlier this year. A native of Cartersville Georgia LaReesa expires to one day participate as a game show contestant and drive the Oscar Meyer wiener mobile until the calls come she’s sharing her story for His glory and laughing all the way.

Mike Cooper has been married to his wife, Christine, for 31 years. They live in Dunwoody, Georgia, and have a 27 year-old son who graduated from the United States Air Force Academy, and now service captain and pilot. Their family also includes a four year-old shelter dog named trooper Cooper. Mike spent 41 years working in information technology with companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard. Having recently retired he is now enjoying his pre-time.

Holly Hardin– 61-year-old Southern Belle who everybody calls Miss Holly – makes her debut tonight, serving punchline smoother than sweet tea and brighter than the heirloom pearls mama hauls in a roller cooler to church potluck, grocery store, or doctors office – because Lord knows a lady Sparkle shouldn’t wait for Sunday. Widowhood just a new aisle to shop: casseroles stacked higher than gossip, older men who flirt like they’re still in high school (bless their polyester hearts), and casseroles again, because when you’re 61, folks don’t bring wine, they bring carbs with a side of salvation.

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