The City of West Hollywood is co-sponsoring a free “Laughter on the Lawn” WeHo Comedy Hour presented by Craig Appelbaum in support of the Alliance for Housing and Healing on Friday, October 14, 2022 at 6 p.m. on the Vista Lawn at Plummer Park, located at 7377 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.

Laughter on the Lawn will feature local Southern California comedians Roz Hernandez, Nathalie Holmes, Jackie Monahan, MK Paulsen, and Antjuan Tobias. The event will be hosted by Ivana Shein. Bring your blankets, lawn chairs, snacks, and philanthropic spirit out for giggles, guffaws, chuckles, chortles, and belly laughs, all in support of the LGBTQ community.

Host Ivana Shein is a second-generation Canadian playwright and actor who has been in numerous television series and currently recurs on the ABC Television series, Station 19. Roz Hernandez performs throughout the region and hosts the podcast Ghosted! by Roz Hernandez.  Nathalie Holmes is an actress, comedian, and vocalist who performs monthly at the Upright Citizens Brigade’s Maude Night. Jackie Monahan is an actress and comedian who can be seen in the new documentary Queer Riot with Margaret Cho. M.K. Paulsen has appeared in the Amazon docu-series Inside Jokes and runs a weekly comedy show in Silverlake called In-Unit Laundry. Antjuan Tobias is an actor and comic most recently seen on the TV miniseries Angelyne with Emmy Rossum. Producer Craig Appelbaum is a former lawyer and art dealer who now performs stand up around LA and hosts a monthly show in Palms Springs.

The Alliance for Housing and Healing, the benefit organization for Laughter on the Lawn, provides essential housing and supportive services to people living in poverty with HIV/AIDS in the Greater Los Angeles area.