07/04/2024
D-day for the Larry Laughs Loud brand - but a widened door of opportunities for Vanessa Larry Mitchell & for local comedy room runners! 💜
I hate posts or statements that start with ‘I regret to inform you….’. I regret nothing. Except that car salesman I shagged after I lost a game pool. That really was the bottom of the barrel.
Times change and life moves on… and I love that.
After 6 years of running Open Mics & line up events in the Northern Rivers, I have decided to hang up the Larry Laughs Loud reigns.
I am still 100% self managed with my solo show (Teardrops on My D***o) which means a lot of work to find venues, line up tour dates, sort contracts and set up marketing etc. I love the business side of comedy, and I love touring my solo show..... more than I can tell ya! The tour will continue.
I have also officially let my Mental Health First Aid Facilitation Accreditation lapse. I was staying accredited as a Plan B for if my solo show didn’t pan out.
My solo show is however (cough, cough!).... panning out.
I know that facilitating that course has made a difference to the lives of so many people, and I am grateful to have been able to deliver it so widely across the country.
But from now on, I'm not doing any jobs that I can’t say ‘f**k' at. I’m 44 years old.
The Larry Laughs Loud Civic Hotel Open Mic will still run THIS THURSDAY and we will have our FINAL Larry Laughs Loud show-down event on 2nd May. Everyone should come.
NOTE: This is NOT the end of the Lismore Civic events nor for the Northern Rivers Comedy Scene. We will announce who is taking over the Civic gigs as soon as we finalise a couple of little details.
Keep supporting local comedy...... and local music, poetry and all things creative..... and I will see you at a gig.x
(Picture is of me in my Black Hyundai Iload with the Larry Laughs Loud branding. I intended to van-life tour in what was dubbed as the 'LLL Fk Machine'..... but soon realised I'm a 4+ star girl and sold it. She was a ripper though.)