Joe Huisman’s battle with addiction started in his teens, pulling him into a vortex of substance abuse that seemed inescapable. He began smoking marijuana at sixteen and was introduced to cocaine at ...

Looking back on the darkest moments of your life isn’t something most people enjoy doing. For the folks behind recovery meme accounts, though, it’s the source of some of their funniest jokes — and the ...

Comedian Mark Lundholm laughs in the face of addiction. From his own perspective as “former criminal, mental patient and homeless wino,” Lundholm, sober since 1988, finds humor in the darkest of ...

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 ...

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 — Comedian Ben ...

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 ...

Deep in the Big Book, the operations manual of Alcoholics Anonymous, a too-often-overlooked point is highlighted. "We aren’t a glum lot," the passage from the 1939 book says of the earliest AAs. "If ...