LaftRx delivers expertly tailored comedy shows that entertain, connect, and uplift your senior living community.
Professional comedy solution for senior living communities. Founded by healthcare experts and veteran comedians. CCRC Pledge ensures clean, respectful shows.
Booking Your Community's First Dose of Laughter
The evidence is clear: laughter is a powerful tool for building connection, enhancing well-being, and creating a vibrant community culture. The LaftRx team has built a professional, reliable, and safe way to bring this powerful medicine to your residents. The final step is to begin the conversation.
Ready to Bring the Power of Laughter to Your Community?
Let's discuss how a LaftRx comedy prescription can enhance your residents' quality of life and enrich your community's culture. Our process is simple and consultative. We are here to answer your questions, understand your community's unique personality, and design a performance package that meets your needs and exceeds your expectations.
Contact us today for a no-obligation consultation and quote. We look forward to partnering with you to create an unforgettable experience of joy and laughter. Because joy belongs on the calendar.
Email Us: laftrx@bigtimingcomedy.com
LaftRx Core Service Features
Professionally Produced Shows
We manage every detail. From selecting the perfect comedian for your community to handling all technical aspects like sound and lighting, we provide a seamless, hassle-free experience. Your team can focus on the residents, while we focus on the show.
Tailored for Your Residents
This is not a one-size-fits-all performance. Our comedians are meticulously selected and cultivated to connect with a 55+ audience. The humor is observational, relatable, and drawn from the shared experiences of life.
Flexible Scheduling & Programming
Whether you're looking for a special event to anchor a family night, a bi-annual or quarterly series to become a calendar highlight, or more frequent performances, we accommodate your needs and budget.
Seamless Community Integration
We work directly with your community departments to ensure a smooth event. This includes collaborating with personal care staff for safe seating arrangements and with dining for special "Dinner-and-a-show" programs.
CCRC Pledge
Trust is paramount when bringing an outside performer into your community. To that end, every LaftRx comedian operates under a strict code of conduct: the Continuing Care Retirement Comic (CCRC) Pledge. This pledge is our non-negotiable guarantee of a respectful, clean, and uplifting performance. It is our promise to you, your residents, and their families.
This pledge systematically addresses the most common concerns associated with live comedy, transforming a potentially unpredictable event into a safe, reliable, and professionally managed experience. It is the formalization of our core philosophy: to create joy without ever compromising dignity.
No Politics
Our stage is a unifying space, not a divisive one. We focus on universal human experiences that bring people together. Our comedy is about shared observations, not personal opinions.
No Profanity
We believe true comedic talent doesn't rely on shock value or vulgarity. Our humor is built on clever writing, sharp observations, and relatable storytelling. Every performance is 100% clean, but we are happy to adjust to your audiences tastes.
No Punching Down
We find humor in the experiences of aging but never resort to ageism. The comedy is celebratory and relatable, never demeaning. We laugh with the audience, never at them.
No Piling On
Our comedians are seasoned professionals expert at "reading the room." If a topic doesn't connect with the audience, they gracefully move on, ensuring comfort and enjoyment from start to finish.
The LaftRx Philosophy: Our Backstory
Every organization has a story. Ours is foundational to our credibility and explains why LaftRx is uniquely qualified to serve the senior living industry. It is a story born from a deep understanding of a fundamental human need: connection.
The global health emergency of 2020 thrust seniors into the center of a crisis of isolation, revealing the profound cost of a lack of community engagement. Residents, families, and staff alike witnessed declines in both physical and mental health, not from the illness itself, but from the absence of simple human connection. During this time, the value of humor as a tool for resilience and hope became clearer than ever. It reaffirmed a timeless truth: laughter is the best medicine.
Even before these events, our founders recognized a gap in the market. Entertainment options for senior communities were often generic, failing to connect with residents' life experiences. LaftRx was born from a simple but powerful question: what if you could bridge that gap? What if you could combine decades of senior living management, clinical healthcare, and business administration expertise with an equal measure of experience in professional stand-up comedy, production, and club ownership?
From this question, the concept of a "comedy prescription" emerged—a carefully formulated dose of laughter, developed by professionals who understand the patient as well as they understand the medicine. Our mission is to present laughter not merely as a distraction, but as a core element of overall wellness. We believe that while many activities engage the hands, laughter engages the heart. Our goal is to "EnterTrain" residents, their guests, and the dedicated professionals who serve them, fostering a positive and resilient culture through the powerful, unifying force of shared laughter.
Recent Review
Comedian Monica Manthey and LAFTrix lit up the stage on Saturday, September 13, with a night of laughter, stories, and clean fun! The show featured four comedians, each bringing their own mix of 55+ humor, sports, and dad jokes. Guests enjoyed a professional production full of lighthearted comedy, along with a delicious prix fixe dinner crafted by Chef Jim.
Wilder! The verdict? Big Laughs, Full Plates, and Happy Hearts! We can't wait to welcome Monica Manthey and LAFTrix back to Heritage Harbour and Wilder Fresh Kitchen for an encore performance!
Testimonial
We contacted LaftRx about doing a comedy show for our residents. Not only is comedy arguably one of the hardest stage performances, but doing it in-front of seniors offers even more challenges. I was very skeptical that it wouldn’t be received or understood well by our residents…. But it was! LaftRx provided a great lineup of comedians who incorporated direct interaction with the residents, relatable stories about past times, and humorous observations about current daily life and the joys of getting older. It was not vulgar or crude, and the residents genuinely enjoyed themselves. We would absolutely work with the LaftRx team again.
Frequently Asked Questions
Appropriateness is the bedrock of our entire service model. It begins with our ironclad CCRC Pledge, which explicitly forbids politics, profanity, and disrespectful humor. But it goes deeper. Our founders' extensive backgrounds in senior living—including roles as a Personal Care Home Administrator and a Registered Nurse—inform a rigorous selection and cultivation process for every comedian on our roster. We only work with performers who demonstrate a genuine understanding of and respect for this specific audience.
Our comedians specialize in observational humor and storytelling that draws from the comedy of everyday life. Topics are universally relatable and focus on shared experiences like family dynamics, navigating new technology, hobbies, travel, and the funny side of relationships. The material is designed to be inclusive and engaging, always adhering to our "No Punching Down" and "No Politics" pledges to ensure a positive experience for all.
Our performances are designed to be highly adaptable and self-contained to minimize any burden on your staff. We can perform in most common areas, activity rooms, dining halls, or multi-purpose spaces. Typically, all we require is a small, designated performance area that is reasonably well-lit and access to a standard power outlet for our professional, compact sound system. We will also coordinate with your personal care staff to ensure safe seating arrangements. We will conduct a simple consultation with you beforehand to confirm the specifics of your space and ensure a flawless setup.
A standard LaftRx performance typically runs for 45 to 60 minutes. Through experience, we have found this to be the optimal duration to keep an audience fully engaged, energized, and entertained without causing fatigue. However, we offer the flexibility to customize the show's length to perfectly fit the needs of your specific event, whether it's a shorter set for a dinner event or a slightly longer one for a standalone show.
Absolutely. We pride ourselves on the professional quality of our talent. Our roster is composed of experienced, vetted comedians from all over the country with impressive credits ranging from television to film to professional writing rooms. This includes our co-founders, such as Stefan Subotich, a national touring headliner, and Lon Kieffer, a veteran clean comedian with decades of experience performing for corporate and private events. When you book LaftRx, you are booking top-tier comedic talent.
Yes, and we strongly encourage it. In fact, our long-term vision is to provide recurring comedy shows to communities across America. A regular comedy event becomes a highly anticipated highlight on the community calendar, giving residents something to look forward to and talk about. We offer an array of commitment levels, including bi-annual, quarterly, or more frequent events as requested.