STAND-UP COMEDY: THE RECOVERY SHOW

Name: STAND-UP COMEDY: THE RECOVERY SHOW
Start: 2025-09-20T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-20T19:30:00-05:00
Location: The Laughing Academy

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Laughing Academy | Glenview, IL

A kind, loving, and hilarious look at the 12-step culture and what it's like to be “in the rooms.”
About this Event

In this inaugural installation of the We Are Not a Glum Lot: A Recovery Comedy Tour, host Jimmy Carrane and headliner Laura Hugg are joined by the equally awesome Dan Strzempka and Mike Pickerl as they take kind, loving, and hilarious (PG-13 to R rated) aim at 12-step culture and what it's like to be “in the rooms.”

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

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.”

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.

DAN STRZEMPKA is a rising Chicago-based comic who performs regularly at the Lincoln Lodge and runs the It’s Just Jokes monthly comedy show at Chief O’ Neill’s.

MIKE PICKERL can be seen performing all over The Midwest including the Lincoln Lodge, The Comedy Vault, Zanies Rosemont, Zanies Chicago and The Comedy Bar. He speaks frankly about his struggles with addiction, interspersed with surrealist one liners.

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

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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!