The Hope & Anchor Comedy Night

Saturday, March 1st, 2025
$10 Cover
Show starts at 8pm
Make sure to Call the Hope & Anchor (815-633-2552) during normal business hours to get a Reservation of a Table. The Show Cover will be added to your Table Check for the Night.
Comics for the Night:
Host: Mike Caceres
Guest Feature: Alex Savant
Main Feature: Denise Medina
Headliner: Larry “Uncle Lar” Reeb
Comedian Bio’s for the Night:
Host Mike Caceres is a Comedian and Filmmaker from Chicago. With a Charming smile and a luscious head of hair, Mike uses his silly comedy stylings to bring laughs all across the midwest. You can see him every Thursday night hosting the open mic at CG’s Comedy Club. Whether he’s at any of Chicago’s premiere comedy clubs or a sticky roadhouse dive bar, a night of Comedy with Mike Caceres will be a show you won’t soon forget!
Guest Feature Alex Savant is a young up-and-coming award-winning comedian from Rockford and Co-Producer of the renowned collective Chill Pill Comedy. Quickly climbing through the ranks of comics in the state-line area, Alex has found a voice that sounds just as comfortable shouting over a pool hall jukebox as it does deliver biting satire in the area’s most historic theaters. This stiff upper lip style follows in the working-class traditions of Pryor and Carlin – critical but not thoughtless, unabashed but not crass. Not afraid to punch above his weight class, Alex can be seen performing across the Midwest.
Main Feature DENISE MEDINA was born and raised in Chicago but now lives “La Vida Loca” in the burbs. She graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in speech and performing arts from Northeastern Illinois University, is a graduate of the Players Workshop of the Second City (improv), The Maxwell Method of Stand-Up Comedy, Feminine Comique (stand-up), and Comedy Workshops with Dave Schwensen (stand-up).cDenise is the creator and host of eQUIPS! a lexicon comedy game show featuring stand-up comedians (WATCH it on YouTube) and co-producer of 28 episodes of “Monday Night Funnies” a ZOOM Show. She has performed with Bad Momz of Comedy, the kates (cast member), Beast Women, Mother Cluckers Comedy, The Momedians of Momedy (co-producer), and in comedy clubs such as Chicago Improv, Laugh Factory, Zanies, The Comedy Shrine, The Kenosha Comedy Club, The Comedy Bar, Up Comedy Club and in shows at The Second City, IO and The Annoyance, in the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, Lady Laughs Comedy Festival, New York Underground Comedy Festival, showcases, fundraisers, corporate events and more! Denise has shared stages with such talents as John Da Cosse, Rocky LaPorte, Kevin Bozeman, Sonya White, Patti Vasquez, Vince Maranto, Vince Carone, Dwayne Kennedy, Patti Vasquez, Abi Sanchez, Mr. Showtime David Scott and has been a frequent performer on “DAT Phan & Friends.”
She co-produced recurring monthly shows, “HilariTea” at Madam ZuZu’s Tea House in Highland Park, “First Friday Funnies” at Improv Playhouse in Libertyville, and “the kates” at The Book Cellar and The Laugh Factory in Chicago, produces and hosts shows at Harbor Brewing Company in Lake Villa and produces and hosts comedy at the Round Lake Beach Cultural & Civic Center in Illinois. Denise has been a guest on “Pretty Late with Patti Vasquez” and “The Download with Justin Kaufmann” on WGN radio, “Comics on Air with Grey Dolan “ on 98.3fm The Life and podcasts such as Chicago Parent’s “Masters in Parenting, ”Parental Advisory with Lia Berman,” and “The Lobo Den.”Her joke has been quoted in Elle Magazine’s “Women in Comedy” issue and she wrote a little something for the UN.
Headliner Larry Reeb, aka “Uncle Lar,” is a wise-cracking, wacky relative everyone knows. Like any concerned relative, “Uncle Lar” wants to help, and in his own unique way, he gives tips. Larry shares advice on everything from dating to driving to raising children. He has been voted Chicago Comedian of the Year twice. Larry has won the Las Vegas Comedy Festival and the Dubuque 10k Comedy Festival, and he was even a finalist in the Great American Comedy Festival. “Uncle Lar” has appeared on “Billy Gardell Presents Road Dogs,” HBO’s “Opening Night at Rodney’s” hosted by the legendary Rodney Dangerfield, NBC’s “Last Comic Standing,” and has made numerous appearances on the “Bob & Tom Radio Show.”