The Comedy Addiction Tour is a unique performance about life, love, addiction, recovery, and redemption. Combining groundbreaking theater with stand-up comedy, the show features Mark Lundholm, Kurtis Matthews, Jesse Joyce, and Pat Dixon — four very funny, edgy comedians in recovery whose stories are poignant, life affirming, and ultimately, hilarious.

Mark has had his own Showtime Comedy Special and written and starred in three one-man shows including the fiercely funny and severely dysfunctional, Addicted: A Comedy of Substance.

After playing an extended run off-Broadway and receiving positive reviews from The New York Post, The New York Times, and The Associated Press, Addicted was voted among the most highly-recommended Off-Broadway shows ever in New York City by the Wall Street Journal's Zagat Theater Survey.

On the web: www.marklundholm.com

Kurtis Matthews
In 1984, Kurtis Matthews began his stand-up career at the Improv in Hollywood. That same year, he also embarked upon his own journey in recovery from alcoholism after an automobile accident resulted in his second DUI and jail time. Touring alongside such renowned comedy veterans as Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, he learned the joys of making people laugh as well as the challenges of staying sober while doing so.

After twelve years of touring nationally and appearing on A&E's Evening at the Improv, Kurtis took a five-year break to work in the software industry. Stand-up had never left his heart, though, and in 1999, he started the San Francisco Comedy College (SFCC), the nation's largest stand-up school. The SFCC has trained over 2,000 people to be funny, attracting scouts from HBO and the Late Show with David Letterman.

Using his struggles with infidelity, alcohol and drugs to enrich his material, Kurtis makes audiences laugh while inspiring them to be the best people they can be.

On the web: www.myspace.com/kurtismatthews

Jesse Joyce
Jesse started his comedy career in Pittsburgh in 1998. By 2005 he was performing all over the country every night and waking up hung over in strange places every morning. Driving back from a gig he was kindly arrested by two Jersey State Troopers who were not thrilled with the fact that he hit their windshield with a lit cigarette at 80 miles per hour. It was the wake up call he needed.

Since then, Jesse has been seen on the inaugural season of Comedy Central's Live At Gotham. He's also been the host of AMC's Date Night, as well as appearing on Entertainment Tonight, and Lifetime. His debut CD Joyce To The World is played regularly on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

In 2001 he received 2 American Advertising Awards (ADDYs) for his writing.

In addition to the Comedy Addiction Tour, he's been traveling the country as part of the prestigious Comedy Central on Campus College Tour.

On the web: www.jessejoyce.com

Pat Dixon
In 1996, in his small home town in Tennessee, Pat Dixon was an alcoholic dishwasher barely making ends meet. Having dropped out of college, and at the end of his crumbling marriage, he began to pursue stand-up comedy. It became an occasional job and full-time obsession and soon Pat began drifting fulltime from club to club across the U.S. in a stupor of cheap drinks and cheap laughs for cheap pay. By spring 2000, he found himself spinning his wheels. Emotionally exhausted, he was finally forced to confront a drinking problem which he d never quite looked square in the eye.

The road chewed him up but didn't spit him out and Dixon continued to work in the clubs, sharpening his comedy with his newly sober mind. In 2003, he began to appear on television performing on Comedy Central's Premium Blend. Since then he's been seen on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS), The World Stands Up (BBC), Very Funny Live (TBS) and his own half hour special Comedy Central Presents: Pat Dixon which debuted in April 2006 (almost six years to the day since he quit drinking for good). Dixon has also appeared as a correspondent for E! Television, CMT and most recently on the Fox News program Red Eye. He is also known by millions of radio listeners for his comedy movie reviews.

After a 16 month stint of touring the U.S., he now lives in New York City where he has an apartment and a home group.

On the web: www.comedianpatdixon.com/