Welcome to Comedy Wire Inc., the umbrella corporation encompassing all projects by husband-and-wife writing/creative team, Pat Reeder & Laura Ainsworth!

Our Story

The Comedy Wire story began when writer/voice/producer/major market DJ Pat Reeder left his position as head writer of the Morning Punch syndicated radio prep service, which under his tenure was honored in a trade magazine survey as the Best Daily Scripted Prep Service in the industry.  He and his top freelance writer Laura Ainsworth launched their own daily radio news/humor/commentary service, The Comedy Wire, originally syndicated by MPT Productions, and later Mike King Productions.  The Comedy Wire was used by top radio DJs and talk show hosts worldwide, and was hailed for its extreme topicality, the accuracy of its capsule news features and the biting wit of its punchlines.  Clients were more likely to compare it to the Daily Show or Jay Leno's monologues than to other radio prep services.  Because it offered subscriber confidentiality, we can't name its clients, but they stretched across the political spectrum and around the world, including one morning show that was chosen as the best in its format two years in a row in a major, network-televised award program.
 

The Comedy Wire radio service ceased publication in 2012 when Pat and Laura became too busy with other projects, including books, public appearances and contributing to Cumulus Media's Mike Huckabee Show and The Huckabee Report, the most popular short-form feature in radio, heard three times daily on up to 600 stations. 

Laura Ainsworth's terrific debut CD Keep It To Yourself and the critically-acclaimed follow-up Necessary Evil are available at CDBaby.com, iTunes and Amazon.com.  Produced and arranged by 2011 Dallas Jazz Musician of the Year, Brian Piper, both feature great songs from the 1920s to today, with fresh twists on standards and obscure gems.  Multiple tracks are being played on stations as far away as France, Australia and Buenos Aires, landing the album on JazzWeek's top radio airplay chart.

Music critics are falling in love with Laura's gorgeous, nearly-three-octave voice, supported by some of the best jazz musicians in the Southwest!  Reviewers have called her voice "sublime," "sultry," "swoon-inducing," "stunning," "magic," "impossibly-old fashioned," "transcendent," "a jewel of a voice" and "the very portrait of West Coast cool."  Her albums have earned comparisons to the classic Capitol and Verve LPs of the '50s.

The lead CD review of the "Vocalists" issue of Jazz Inside magazine raved that you can keep all those pop divas like Beyonce, Mariah and Lady Gaga, "the only one for me is Laura Ainsworth...Ainsworth has beauty, brains, sophistication and comic timing that make her the total performance package...A wonderful modern interpreter of the Great American Songbook, as well as thoroughly modern styles." 
 
Fellow musicians have also taken notice.  Billboard #1 New Age artist Wouter Kellerman declared Necessary Evil "amazing," "a "must-have" and said, "I strongly believe this is a timeless album, a treat and an absolute pleasure to listen to."  Recording artist and renowned classical pianist Michael Lewin of the Boston Conservatory declared Laura's rendition of Cole Porter's "Love For Sale" from Keep It To Yourself to be "the best EVER," adding, "I was brought up on Ella, but this is better." 

A three-time nominee for the Artist Music Guild Heritage Award for Female Vocalist of the Year and 2014 Mainstream Artist of the Year nominee, Laura performed at the nationally televised awards show alongside such stars as Gloria Gaynor, Billy Gilman, Shirley Caesar, Dee Dee Sharp and Chubby Checker.

In January 2015, Laura enjoyed her first tour of India and Dubai as part of the WOA Records India Tour and WOA International Music Festival Goa and Dubai.  While in India, she shot a video of the title track of "Necessary Evil" that was accepted by VH1 and other top music video outlets.   She also recorded with Grammy-winning world music artist and composer/producer Ricky Kej, and he created a dance/club remix of "Necessary Evil" that also has its own video.  "Necessary Evil" was also picked up for a North American rerelease by American Showplace Music, label of Grammy-winning producer Jack Kreisberg (legendary former manager of the Blue Note jazz club and founder of Half Note Records), who will be producing Laura's third album in his New Jersey studio, where Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and many other major stars record.  




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