Comic mom has last laugh (source: Calgary Herald)

Lori Gibbs will be the first to admit that her entry into the world of standup comedy was not the most glamorous of experiences. Three years ago, the 43-year-old mother-of-three decided she was finally going to chase the comedy dream she had been harbouring since performing jokes about the family cat to her appreciative parents as an eight-year-old. Although not a churchgoer herself, she agreed to perform at a religious gathering at a camp outside the tiny town of Caroline, southwest of Red Deer –population 515 –where parishioners were attending a potentially humourless “women’s healing retreat.” Click here to read full story.