Laffter Effects

Smart Comedy for Humans of All Ages, in Portland Maine

LAFFTER EFFECTS - SMART STANDUP COMEDY IN PORTLAND MAINE

Laffter Effects brings smart, interesting, creative & hilarious standup comedy to the Portland Maine area.

CURRENT UPCOMING SHOWS!

Comedy show in Westbrook, Maine Fri Oct 11, 2024
Our first Comedy Situation show was a *smash* success, with a full showroom enjoying delicious food & drink, and enjoying Boston-based headliner Liam McGurk CRUSHING it!
 
Now comes our second Comedy Situation, Friday Oct 11, 2024, 7:30PM at Frog & Turtle in downtown Westbrook ME with another of the most consistently laugh-getting headliners in Boston, JANET MCNAMARA! Janet has smashed it at various festivals- including Women In Comedy Festival, Asheville Comedy Festival and Burbank Comedy Festival and WON the BeanTown Comedy Riots contest. Janet’s easygoing, often subtle delivery and genuinely off-kilter demeanor are a crowd favorite around New England and beyond.
 
Feature act the wry, sophisticated, very funny MATT DUNDAS, and hosted by ADAM GROPPMAN.

Tickets can be purchased at https://www.thefrogandturtle.com/about-1

Past Shows.....

Comedy Show Frog & Turtle, Westbrook Maine
Free Standup comedy Brunswick Maine

LAUGH SANCTUARY

SAT APRIL 13, 8:00PM

FIRST PARISH UU CHURCH

DOWNSTAIRS COMMUNITY ROOM

425 CONGRESS ST, PORTLAND ME

 

Chris Post is a Boston-based comic who has performed in the Boston Comedy Festival, the Rogue Island Comedy Festival, the The 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, and the Women in Comedy Festival. In 2019 he was a Boston Comedy Festival Finalist. He currently produces a podcast titled “Stuck And Poke.” With a lifetime of bizarre experiences and a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth, Chris’s comedy is the story of a regular guy who spends every day trying to become a slightly better person. Results have varied.

 

Matt Dundas has performed across the United States at comedy clubs and festivals, and has shared the stage with the likes of Jimmy O. Yang, Alonzo Bodden, Jena Friedman, Stavros Halkias, and Tony Woods. He is a former student at The Second City, Chicago’s iO Theater, and the DC Improv.

A professional actor from age 10, Matt is a veteran of the stage and screen, and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. As an actor, Matt has worked with Olympia Dukakis, Charles Durning, Campbell Scott, and Tracy Pollan.

 

Al Ghanekar hits the stage with enthusastic energy and a facility for voices, physical comedy and controlled comedic mayhem. Al turns his stern, sometimes grumpy father and hiw own turbulent life experiuences into pure comedy gold. Al has performed at fine venues and for top bookers all around New England and in the US Midwest.

 

Guest comedian Aaron Waldron hails from the sunny surf-haven of San Diego, CA, where his upbringing in that veritable paradise was weird & troubled enough to make him really funny. A male nurse by day, Aaron is naturally quirky & likable and his comedy appears subtle yet packs a punch.

 

Host Adam Groppman exploits his difficulties with the demands of mainstream life, and late-to-adulthood persona for your comedic enjoyment. He has performed at clubs and venues in numerous states and been in the Boston, NY Underground, San Diego, Palm Springs, Ventura Harbor, Burbank and Big Fire comedy festivals.

 

Laffter Effects & Ghanekar’s Moniker present LAUGH SANCTUARY- smart, original standup comedy in intimate, comfortable venues in Portland Maine.

 

This show is in Laugh Sanctuary’s home base venue- the Community Room of the historic, grand First Parish UU Church in downtown Portland.

 

* LIQUID REFRESHMENTS ARE AVAILABLE*

 

Purchase Laugh Sanctuary tickets here:

Hopped Up Laughs

EVERY 1ST & 3RD MONDAY OF THE MONTH

 

7:00PM
Brickyard Hollow
149 Main St, Brunswick ME
NO COVER 

 

Enjoy a night of wicked good laughs and delicious beer & food at Brickyard Hollow Brewing in the happening center of Brunswick, Maine.

UPCOMING LINEUPS

 

*SPECIAL SUNDAY NIGHT SHOW*
SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 7:00PM
BRICKYARD HOLLOW BRUNSWICK


 

 

 

APRIL 15

Chris Fritz, Josh Marquis, Crystal Bernard, Mike Gray.

 

Past (& future!) Comedians:

Johnny Ater, Al Ghanekar, Igor, Matt Dundas, Ben Chadwick, Sarah Mather, Michelle Lisi, Casey Watson, Tuck Tucker, Ian MacDonald, Nikki Martin, Clenched Sphinx.

 

 

Brought to you by Laffter Effects & Brickyard Hollow.

 

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Our premium Laugh Sanctuary headliner shows, produced monthly in conjunction with Ghanekar’s Moniker, are in the historic and architecturally significant First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church at 425 Congress St in downtown Portland Maine. Our headliners have included 2 WINNERS of the Boston Comedy Festival- Al Park and Andrew Mayer, and distinguished entrants in the prestigious Limestone (Indiana), Rogue Island (Rhode Island) and Black Women in Comedy festivals, and distinguished entrants in the Seattle International Comedy Competition.  

We recently started a twice-monthly series called Recreational Comedy on select Wednesdays at 7:30pm at the Core Social Justice Cannabis Museum at 555 Congress St in downtown Portland Maine. It features some of the finest local region comedic talent in a very interesting, uniquely colorful & intimate space.

Laffter Effects aims to bring smart, challenging-yet-relatable standup comedy to a town (Portland Maine) that deserves no less!  
 
  
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