Our mission is to leverage the power of stand up comedy to inspire, motivate, and mobilize for social change. We partner with comedians and change agents whose innovations disrupt the status quo and accelerate progress towards community impact at scale. We have a particular interest in the crisis affecting the health, education, and welfare of boys and young men of color.

We are guided by a COLLECTIVE INTEREST: Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity is not: a COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY: To whom much is given, much is expected: a COLLECTIVE ACTION: we must be the change that we want to see. Affect Social Change One Joke At A Time.

All Jokes Aside past performers have included Steve Harvey, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, Cedric The Entertainer, Dave Chappelle, Craig Robinson, D.L. Hughley, MoNique, JB Smoove, Carlos Mencia, Adele Givens, George Willborn, Sheryl Underwood, Deon Cole, Don DC Curry, Mike Epps, Jonathan Slocumb, DeRay Davis, Earthquake, Mike Bonner, CoCo, Tony Roberts, Melanie Comarcho, Michael Colyar, Damon Williams, and George Wallace, to name a few.

We will get a whole bunch of much-loved comedians to make the public laugh, while raising funding and awareness to assist organizations that excel and in helping those people who are in desperate need. The high profile talents of the nation’s best veterans mixed in with the spirit of the best up-and-coming talent; add a touch of music, film, and tech, and this mix is sure to create sought-after knock out events.

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A Mic and a Stool: All Jokes Aside Collective Show Benefiting YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

By YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

A Mic and a Stool: All Jokes Aside Collective Show Benefiting YWCA Metropolitan Chicago