Story last updated at 12:18 PM EST on June 14, 2007

HA, THAT'S A LAUGH

Laugh it up at Downriver's own comedy club, The Comedy Room, at Portofino, 3455 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte.

Christine Steadman has a husband, son, daughter and three grandchildren, which is why she's happy to be on the road performing at Portofino today and tomorrow.

Next Friday and June 23, Leo DuFore comes across the river from Windsor.

The cost is $10 Fridays and $12 Saturdays, with dinner/show packages at $23.95 Thursdays and $27.95 Fridays and Saturdays. Call 1-734-624-5561.

For more information, call 1-989-965-0259.

Janeane Garofalo and Patton Oswalt will roll into town for one night of laughter at the City Theatre, performing at 7 and 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Tickets are $39.50 and can be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, the City Theatre, Fox Theatre and Joe Louis Arena box offices and at all Ticketmaster locations. For more information, call 1-313-471-6611.

Comedian Artie Lange heads to the Fox Theatre for a night of laughter at 8 p.m. Sept. 15.

One of the most sought after live comedians and talk show guests, Lange has on appeared on "The Late Show With David Letterman," "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and "The Best Damn Sports Show, Period" and has been a regular on Howard Stern's radio show for the past five years.

Recently, Lange starred, co-wrote, and produced his own feature film, "Beer League."

Tickets range from $40-$75 and can be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, the Fox Theatre and Joe Louis Arena box offices and at all Ticketmaster locations. To charge tickets by phone, call 1-248-433-1515. For more information, call 1-313-471-6611.

The Second City, 42705 Grand River Ave., Novi, presents its all new revue, "Michigan Impossible: All Laid Off & No Place to Go."

The show celebrates the humor in the social, political and financial turmoil of living in the nation's second-worst economy through the eyes of the recently unemployed, but also some atypical airplane passengers, the cultlike employees of a warehouse store and one mixed-up monkey.

Shows are at 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays; 8 and 10 p.m. Fridays; and 7 and 9 p.m. Saturdays. Tickets are $15 Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays; $20 Fridays and Saturdays.

Call 1-248-348-4448 or visit www.secondcity.com.

Comedian Jim Gaffigan will bring laughter to the Fox Theatre at 7 p.m. Nov. 17.

Best known for his many TV sitcom appearances and commercials, most recently for Sierra Mist, Gaffigan currently is a series regular on the TBS' hit comedy "My Boys."

Tickets are $39.75, with a limited number of gold circle seats at $45, and can be purchased at OlympiaEntertainment.com, the Fox Theatre and Joe Louis Arena box offices and at all Ticketmaster locations.

Tickets can be charged by phone at 1-248-433-1515. For more information, call 1-313-471-6611.