What It Is
Laughing Impact is a live event format that brings together comedy, satire, and civic engagement; produced in partnership with local grassroots advocacy organizations and performing arts groups.
Events are designed to be simultaneously entertaining and civically engaging. The goal is to foster civic participation with intentionally designed programming that is at once entertaining, cathartic, humorous, and connected to those who do the real and valuable work that continues after the show.
Current Examples
- Town Hall Show: Everything is Great! - our flagship program, Laughing Impact Project licenses the TownHallShow.com production and creates a highly engaged event setting for capacity building, outreach, and future inter-organization coordination. See more
- Sunday Service - an experimental pilot program designed to move topical, current event stresses into in-room dialogue, cathartic release, and next step actions. See more
How It Works
Each Laughing Impact event is co-produced with local advocacy organizations and performing arts groups. Laughing Impact Project facilitates the partnership: providing the designed show (via licensing, casting, and logistics), connecting the organizations, structuring the event, and supporting the follow up.
The format:
- Live comedy and satire performances
- Tabling and outreach by advocacy partners as part of event design
- Audience-facing civic action opportunities (voter registration, sign-ups, direct advocacy)
- Post-show engagement designed by the advocacy partner
Who’s Involved
Events bring together three groups:
- Performing arts groups — comedians, satire troupes, sketch groups, and theatrical performers who create the entertainment
- Advocacy organizations — grassroots civic groups who bring the civic engagement component and connect with the audience
- Venues — spaces that host the event and help reach local audiences
Current Status
Laughing Impact events are currently active in the Southeast. We are scheduling events in additional cities and regions.
If you represent a performing arts group, advocacy organization, or venue: get in touch.