Comedy Benefit for Recovery


Saturday, October 6th, 2018, 8:00pm @ IMA
4000 Michigan Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46208

Get ready to laugh your ass off while doing a good thing. 100% of Profits go to 2018 Beneficiaries in Indianapolis
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Intended for Mature Audiences

Headliners

 

Dr. Bill Miller

CLUBS: Zanies, Improv, Laff Factory, Comedy Store, Borgata Atlantic City, Jokers, Comedy Underground, The Comic Strip.

TELEVISION: Showtime Comedy Club Network, An Evening at the Improv, Comedy Tonight, The Comedy Shop.

COLLEGES: UCLA, University of South Carolina, Loyola (Chicago), Drake, Ohio University, University of Virginia, Univ of Miami, Ohio Univ, Austin Peav, Many others.

Dr. Bill Miller is a Physician/Comedian living in a suburb of Chicago.

After growing up in Los Angeles and graduating UCLA, he started performing at comedy clubs while at Northwestern University Medical School. He has headlined clubs throughout the country since the 1980 and performed at many colleges, hospital functions and corporations. After a 15-year hiatus to raise kids, he’s back with a vengeance, giving his own take on doctors, patients, family and health care.

He has a one-man show, “Bad Bedside Manner” that he performs at Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago.

Check out his website.

Laura House

HBO, Comedy Central, NBC

Laura is a headlining comedian who has performed on HBO, Comedy Central and NBC. She’s worked with Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Patton Oswalt, Lewis Black, Brian Regan and more.

Laura House has written on the Emmy-winning shows Mom and Samantha Who?, the BAFTA-winning Secret Life of Boys and others, including Mtv's Loosely, Exactly, Nicole, The George Lopez Show and more. She's developed pilots for ABC with Barry Sonnenfeld, FX with Katey Sagal, as well shows for Nickelodeon and Mtv.

Her personal essays are published in 3 books: True Tales of Lust and Love, Comedy Film Nerds Guide to the Movies, and The 5,000 Stages of Grief. She created the hit solo show “How to Hate Yourself," which Huffpo called:

“[A] riotous laughfest and a complete joy.”

She also teaches meditation and finds humor to be the best road to healing. Her album “Mouth Punch” is available now.

Emcee

 

Marti MacGibbon

Laff-Aholics Founder and Producer

Marti MacGibbon is a humorous motivational speaker, standup comic, and nationally award-winning author. Her memoir, Never Give in to Fear: Laughing All the Way Up from Rock Bottom, is an Amazon bestseller and has earned critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review, Foreword Reviews, San Francisco Book Review and more. Marti has performed at the world-famous Hollywood Improv and at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, and at clubs and colleges all over the U.S. She’s been interviewed in Investors Business Daily and Entrepreneur, on ABC-TV, CBS-TV, FOX-TV, and numerous radio stations.

Marti is founder, producer, and emcee of Laff-Aholics. The Indiana Addictions Issues Coalition (IAIC) honored Marti with the 2015 Indiana Lifetime Recovery Advocate Award, and the 2014 Recovery Advocate of the Year Award, for outstanding accomplishments in support of recovery, and her work in breaking away the stigma surrounding addiction, mental illness, and other issues.

Check out her website

Details

When

Saturday, October 6th
Show starts at 8pm

Where

Indianapolis Museum of Art - Toby Theater
4000 Michigan Road
Indianapolis, IN 46208

Bonus

Come early and dine at the Nourish Cafe!
Opens at 6pm

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For the funniest benefit of the year!