Funny Double Trouble: Karen Williams and Vickie Shaw
Funny Double Trouble: Karen Williams and Vickie Shaw
Karen Williams is the Founder and CEO of the International Institute of Humor and Healing Arts aka HaHA Institute, former owner of The Healing Place Education Center, and recently received 501(c)3 nonprofit status for the HaHA Institute - Humor Education Center. Contact Karen as a keynote speaker in the areas of diversity, humor and healing and JOYFUL AGING!
Karen Williams is a featured comic performer with Olivia Travel cruises and resorts since 1990. Curve Magazine calls Karen Williams "...a laugh riot." The Sydney Morning Herald proclaims that Karen Williams is "ferociously funny, with perfect pace, timing, and structure."
Karen was a ghostwriter for Columbia Pictures and television host and writer for IN THE LIFE. Her humor writings appear in numerous anthologies including JOKE STEW; REVOLUTIONARY LAUGHTER; OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS; and OUT, LOUD & LAUGHING. Karen is currently working on a lifestyle book entitled LIVING THE LAUGHTER LIFESTYLE published in 2025! Karen Williams is also the creator and facilitator of the Humor-at-Large Workshop Series; founder of the National Women's Comedy Conference; past president of the Association of Women's Music and Culture; and former board member of AIDS, Medicine and Miracles, Love Makes A Family, and the National Black Justice Coalition. Karen served as a certified provider ofcommunication skills and diversity courses for the California Board of State and Community Corrections, providing diversity training for police, probation, correctional, and juvenile justice officers throughout the State of California.
Comedian Vickie Shaw was a late bloomer. When the Southern Baptist stay-at-home mom decided she would hit the stage and give comedy a try, she had no idea it would change her life in many new and exciting ways. Shaw said, “I didn’t want to be a comedian so much as I just wanted to be able to look back at my life and say I did it. I was always telling my kids to follow their dreams and I hadn’t followed my own, so I guess in a way I did want to be a comedian, but didn’t acknowledge it.”
Her life took an unusual turn on her path for laughs. She said, “I began to study the art of comedy I realized I had to get in touch with my feelings, many of which I had never addressed. I was very suppressed.” She added, “When I began to get in touch with them, it became a Pandora’s box. You can’t pick and choose what you feel and… I realized… son a gun! I’m a lesbian!”
She joked about the real events in her life. On stage, she tells the story about when her daughter asked her about being a lesbian. Shaw said, “My daughter said, ‘Do you…you know…’ And I couldn’t help it, I said, ‘What do you mean?’ and my daughter said, ‘you know…have sex.’ And I replied, “Haley, I don’t care if your parents are straight or gay, but thinking about your parents having sex…is GROSS!”
Vickie has performed in almost every state in the US over the last five years and has headlined in various venues including: Michigan Womyn’s Festival, National Women’s Music Festival, Monterrey Beach Women’s Festival; and the Dinah & Lina Shore Golf Tournament in Southern California.
FUNNY DOUBLE TROUBLE features famous veteran lesbian comics — VICKIE SHAW & KAREN WILLIAMS — in their HILARIOUS Double Bill that’s guaranteed to make you LAUGH OUT LOUD! It’s a comedy show you won’t want to miss!!!
Karen Williams is the Founder and CEO of the International Institute of Humor and Healing Arts aka HaHA Institute, former owner of The Healing Place Education Center, and recently received 501(c)3 nonprofit status for the HaHA Institute - Humor Education Center. Contact Karen as a keynote speaker in the areas of diversity, humor and healing and JOYFUL AGING!
Karen Williams is a featured comic performer with Olivia Travel cruises and resorts since 1990. Curve Magazine calls Karen Williams "...a laugh riot." The Sydney Morning Herald proclaims that Karen Williams is "ferociously funny, with perfect pace, timing, and structure."
Karen was a ghostwriter for Columbia Pictures and television host and writer for IN THE LIFE. Her humor writings appear in numerous anthologies including JOKE STEW; REVOLUTIONARY LAUGHTER; OUT IN ALL DIRECTIONS; and OUT, LOUD & LAUGHING. Karen is currently working on a lifestyle book entitled LIVING THE LAUGHTER LIFESTYLE published in 2025! Karen Williams is also the creator and facilitator of the Humor-at-Large Workshop Series; founder of the National Women's Comedy Conference; past president of the Association of Women's Music and Culture; and former board member of AIDS, Medicine and Miracles, Love Makes A Family, and the National Black Justice Coalition. Karen served as a certified provider ofcommunication skills and diversity courses for the California Board of State and Community Corrections, providing diversity training for police, probation, correctional, and juvenile justice officers throughout the State of California.
Comedian Vickie Shaw was a late bloomer. When the Southern Baptist stay-at-home mom decided she would hit the stage and give comedy a try, she had no idea it would change her life in many new and exciting ways. Shaw said, “I didn’t want to be a comedian so much as I just wanted to be able to look back at my life and say I did it. I was always telling my kids to follow their dreams and I hadn’t followed my own, so I guess in a way I did want to be a comedian, but didn’t acknowledge it.”
Her life took an unusual turn on her path for laughs. She said, “I began to study the art of comedy I realized I had to get in touch with my feelings, many of which I had never addressed. I was very suppressed.” She added, “When I began to get in touch with them, it became a Pandora’s box. You can’t pick and choose what you feel and… I realized… son a gun! I’m a lesbian!”
She joked about the real events in her life. On stage, she tells the story about when her daughter asked her about being a lesbian. Shaw said, “My daughter said, ‘Do you…you know…’ And I couldn’t help it, I said, ‘What do you mean?’ and my daughter said, ‘you know…have sex.’ And I replied, “Haley, I don’t care if your parents are straight or gay, but thinking about your parents having sex…is GROSS!”
Vickie has performed in almost every state in the US over the last five years and has headlined in various venues including: Michigan Womyn’s Festival, National Women’s Music Festival, Monterrey Beach Women’s Festival; and the Dinah & Lina Shore Golf Tournament in Southern California.