Funny Bones Improv: A Smile For Kids When They Need It The Most

WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Sharon Litwin

Published December 16, 2015 at 6:00 AM EST

A group of Funny Bones Improvisers pose outside of the Ronald McDonald House in New Orleans, one of the many locations they visit each month.

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There’s a special group of improvisers in New Orleans who want nothing more than to get hospital-bound kids to laugh. They're called Funny Bones Improv and on this week’s Notes from New Orleans, Sharon Litwin talks with two of their leaders: executive director, Janet Wilson, and local director and performer Emily Slazer.

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Sharon Litwin

Sharon Litwin is the founding president of NolaVie.com, the only daily cultural not-for-profit website of its kind in the United States devoted to exploring all aspects of the quirky, diverse culture of New Orleans. Sharon, along with Renee Peck, NolaVie Managing Editor, wrote, and NolaVie received, a grant from the J-Lab Project of American University, funded through the McCormick Foundation in Chicago, allowing NolaVie to launch in February, 2011. Since 2012, Sharon has produced Notes from New Orleans, a weekly on-air cultural news segment for WWNO that is complemented by her weekly âââ

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