Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Comedian Mark Lundholm laughs in the face of addiction. From his own perspective as “former criminal, mental patient and homeless wino,” Lundholm, sober ...

Kurtis Matthews, left, and Mark Lundholm will perform at the House of Comedy at the Mall of America tonight. People who’ve been in recovery can recite their “rock-bottom” story, the point in their ...

Comedian Liz Russo opens up about her alcoholism on stage, and has organized a standup showcase to raise money for rehab centers. For Liz Russo, getting sober took more than a stay in prison. It took ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking back on the darkest moments of your life isn’t something most people enjoy doing. For the folks behind recovery meme ...

When it comes to drug and alcohol addiction, it can take several attempts for a person in recovery to achieve long-term sobriety. So when comedian Joe Huisman — a former addict himself — founded a ...

Mark Lundholm and Kurt Matthews, aka The Addicts, have built comedy careers by making their respective recovery processes not only relatable, but funny. No, it wasn’t funny when Matthews got in a ...

There aren’t too many comedians who can say their first gig was at San Quentin State Prison. Not that Mark Lundholm, a recovering addict who is co-headlining the Addicts Comedy Tour with fellow ...

Rich Hardisty cut himself, Harriet Dyer numbed her pain with drugs. A new wave of comics are working out their issues in their acts. But is it really helping them? And should we be laughing? The first ...