The Hope & Anchor Pre-Turkey Day Comedy Night

Name: The Hope & Anchor Pre-Turkey Day Comedy Night
Start: 2024-11-23T20:00:00-06:00
End: 2024-11-23T22:00:00-06:00
Location: The Hope & Anchor

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Hope & Anchor | Loves Park, IL

The Hope & Anchor Comedy Night
Pre-Thanksgiving Comedy Night
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
$10 Cover
Show starts at 8pm
Make sure to Call the Hope & Anchor (815-633-2552) during normal business hours to get a Reservation of a Table. The Show Cover will be added to your Table Check for the Night.
Comics for the Night:
Host: Matt Hall (104.9 the X)
Guest Feature: Kat Diaz
Main Feature: Laura Hugg
Headliner: Vince Carone
Comedian Bio's for the Night:
Host Matt Hall and Rockford funnyman has been performing stand-up comedy for the better part of two decades. He’s played many clubs across the Midwest and currently resides in Rockford where he hosts a morning radio show.
Guest Feature Kat Diaz hails from the rough streets of Des Moines, Iowa, but has called Chicago home for the last 10 years. Her humor can be described as a dry piece of toast buttered with wordplay and served with physical act outs that make you wonder "CAN all Latinas dance? Kat has trained at The Second City and her credits include Laugh Factory, Den Theatre and the Latina Comedy Festival. She currently produces Mi Gente at the Lincoln Lodge.
Main Feature Laura Hugg is a nationally touring stand-up comedian as well as sketch comedy performer, improviser and storyteller based in Chicago IL. Her humor is quick-witted, a blend of observation and self-deprecation, looking at the world through a lens that is sometimes dark but always optimistic. She has featured for Rocky LaPorte. Beginning in 2021, Laura produces and hosts “Keep Coming Back”, a recovery related comedy showcase at the Lincoln Lodge Theater in Chicago. She is a graduate of The Second City Training Center. Laura is a stand-up comedy instructor at The Laughing Academy in Glenview, IL and Babs Comedy Club in Forest Park, IL, where she is also on the house improv team.
Headliner Vince Carone isn’t the type of person to sit back and wait for fame to find him. For 20 years, this Chicago-based comedian has been in the comedy trenches, touring the Midwest and beyond. He has played every club, one-nighter, bar, restaurant, and Moose lodge within a 500-mile radius of the Windy City and he’s got the scars to prove it. He’s taken his lumps, smiled, and asked for more. He developed a powerful stage presence and material that kills in all environments. He became a laugh-making machine with no contemporary equal. Vince is fast-talking, frenetic, and frustrated. He has a quick-witted, fast-paced style that envelops you with an avalanche of punchlines that never stop. He is chaotic, cathartic, and a complainer. But the deeper he delves into his show the more you relate to him, root for him, and feel his pain just as he relives it, night after night. That’s Vince’s greatest gift, his ability to instantly connect with the everyman (and every woman). He sees the absurdities of the world and he rallies against them. Vince says the things on stage you would only dare to speak in a mumbling, hushed tone when no one else was within earshot. Vince is a hero to the blue-collar, put upon American. He’s married. He has kids. And he’s trying to figure it all out. He strips back the illusions of happily ever after and until death do you part. He is self-deprecating and honest to a fault. Life isn’t all sunshine and roses. It’s a constant struggle to keep it together while the world burns around him. It’s a picket fence in a suburb on the outskirts of Hell. And coming from Vince, it’s downright hilarious. Vince has been seen on TBS and heard on Chicago’s Mancow in the Morning radio show, WGN Radio, and the syndicated Bob & Tom show. He has been seen on the internet hit, "So You Have a Girlfriend". He has released 5-hour long comedy albums and he runs a podcast called "Peek Behind the Curtain". This guy hits on all cylinders. He was the winner of the “Best of the Midwest” Competition at 2019’s Gilda’s Laughfest. He placed 3rd at the 2017 Laughlin Comedy Festival. He has also appeared at the Asheville Comedy Festival, Dubuque 10k, and the AV Comedy Festival. He never misses an opportunity to challenge himself or get his comedy out to new and diverse audiences. Vince has opened for a rogue’s gallery of comedy greats. So many, in fact, it’s impossible to list them all here. He has shared the stage with Dave Attell, Christopher Titus, Kevin Pollak, Billy Gardell, John Pinette, Tommy Davidson, Jamie Kennedy, and Kathleen Madigan, just to name a few.