Laura Ainsworth was born in Hollywood, but her family soon moved to the thriving entertainment megalopolis of Grand Prairie, Texas. Her father, a former member of the Tommy Dorsey and Freddy Martin Orchestras, worked for CRC, TM Productions, PAMS, and other Dallas jingle producers, playing and singing on countless classic commercials of the 1960s and '70s. Growing up, Laura watched her dad play lead sax in the famed Fairmont Hotel Venetian Room Orchestra, backing such idols of hers as Ella Fitzgerald and Tony Bennett.  She received an honors degree from the University of Texas in Radio/TV/Film and is a true triple threat: an acclaimed singer, writer and actress/comedian, who has starred in stage productions ranging from Susan Sontag dramas to "The King & I" and "Swingin' With The Big Band," and whose parody songs have been heard on radio morning shows worldwide.
 

In 2003, Laura wrote and began performing her own one-woman satirical musical show lampooning her pet peeve: ageism and the pressure society puts on everyone to keep looking young and beautiful or else.  Teaming with pianist extraordinaire Brian Piper (Jerry Jeff Walker, Cab Calloway, and many, many others), she launched "My Ship Has Sailed."  The show has played at top music clubs and theaters around Texas, appeared on the main stage of  the prestigious Out-Of-The-Loop Theatre Festival, and been spotlighted at the Dallas and Las Vegas Comedy Festivals.  Laura has performed excerpts from it on Q TV's "Jack E. Jett Show" and her own special on Dallas Comcast Cable.  It has been called "a musical 'Defending the Caveman' for women" by fans  and dubbed "a potential cult phenomenon" by the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram's StarTime magazine.   Laura also writes humorous and passionate commentary on age and beauty at her blog, "Laura Ainsworth's 'Keep Young & Beautiful' Diary."

In summer, 2006, Laura created another hit show when she teamed with the fantastic singer/pianist/recording artist Michael Gott in the sophisticated revue, "Cole Porter: Elegance & Decadence."   Its debut became the first show ever to sell out the new Stone Street Theater in downtown Dallas.  BroadwayWorld.com pronounced the show "Dazzling," "Sublime" and "Truly magnificent entertainment."  Laura was hailed as "a gifted comedienne," " a vivid personality with a wonderful stage presence," and "a fine singer with an outstanding range and genuine wit."  After two performances at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion, Gov. Mike Huckabee declared Laura and Michael "terrific," and said that if he becomes president, "they for sure get the White House gig." 

Laura's eclectic writer's resume includes everything from corporate shows to hundreds of commercial jingles and comedy radio spots, to lyrics for a pre-"Space Jam" children's extravaganza entitled "Bugs Bunny In Outer Space."  Her video training programs for GTE Directories helped pioneer interactive TV and won her the ITVA Golden Reel Award in worldwide competition. She is also a consultant and lecturer on historic home restoration and decor, an active member in several Dallas historic organizations and zoning committees, an expert on bird care who writes the popular "Welcome to the Birdhouse" column for Companion Parrot Quarterly magazine, a cartoonist, and a serious artist who paints photo-realistic portraits of exotic birds. She's almost too talented!
 

Pat Reeder, on the other hand, was born in Dallas, and his parents soon moved him to the middle of nowhere. Growing up in rural Texas on the lonely shores of Lake Whitney, he developed an annoying habit of talking to himself, which naturally led to a career in radio. He worked his way through college by holding down a number of seven-day-a-week DJ shifts at 250-watt radio stations, doing every low chore from writing news to washing the coffee pot to playing Ray Stevens records on request. To everyone's amazement, he managed to graduate Magna Cum Laude from North Texas State with a degree in Radio/TV/Film.
 

While in college, Pat met fellow record collector and show biz history buff George Gimarc, and the two worked as a radio morning team, did scads of comedy commercials, and co-authored "Hollywood Hi-Fi: Over 100 of the Most Outrageous Celebrity Records Ever" (St. Martin's- Griffin), hailed by the Phoenix Sun as "the best weird book of 1996."  Excerpts appeared in "In Style" and "The Star," and Pat and George talked about it on "Inside Edition" and "Day & Date."  The two also co-produced the notorious "Hollywood Hi-Fi" CD (Brunswick), featuring the inimitable song stylings of Bette Davis, Joe Pesci, Jerry Mathers, Jayne Mansfield and many other tone deaf celebrities.  Pat and George recently launched a Hollywood Hi-Fi website complete with book excerpts, audio clips and scads of rare singing celebrity videos, including their own video record reviews.  And they perform a hilarious live presentation on it for corporate and civic groups. 

Pat has been a DJ, comedy voice talent, producer, commercial writer, and music and production director for a number of major market radio stations and syndication companies. His material has been distributed by such top radio syndicators as Stevens & Grdnic, Dorsey & Donnelly, and the American Comedy Network, and performed by such stars as Jimmie "J.J." Walker, Tony Randall, Sandy Duncan and even Barney the Dinosaur (although God knows, he doesn't like to talk about that one). He has also written wacky columns on the paranormal for "Skeptical Briefs" and "The North Texas Skeptic" (visit the NTS website for his columns and to see Laura's "Up A Tree" cartoons!)  And his political one-liners have been used by Gov. Mike Huckabee in speeches and presidential debates and quoted and praised in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, London Telegraph and other major media outlets.  
 

Pat's current project is Nine Hallmarks of Highly Incompetent Losers, a book that combines his and Laura's comedy writing with their years of experience creating sales training programs, marketing materials and other in-house projects for such top corporations as GTE, Sylvania, Southwestern Bell and DLM Inc. The book uses over 200 outrageous-but-true Comedy Wire stories to illustrate nine easily-avoidable human errors that can bring down anyone from a high school dropout criminal to a CEO with a Harvard MBA.  Pat performs a humorous live presentation based on the book for corporate, civic and charitable groups, with previous audiences ranging from the Northrup-Grumman National Accountants Seminar to the State Convention of the Optimists' Clubs of Texas.  For more information, check out his SPEAKER'S PAGE.
 

Pat and Laura met while both were working at TM Productions. In the late 1980's, Pat became head writer of the radio comedy service "The Morning Punch" and Laura was his top free-lance contributor. During their tenure, a national radio trade magazine poll named that service the Best Topical Fax Comedy Service in America.  In 1991, they struck out on their own, and The Comedy Wire was born.
 

The husband-and-wife team together produce The Comedy Wire, five pages daily of incredibly timely topical humor used by top-rated radio hosts worldwide, as well as websites, cable TV hosts and even presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee, who freely credits The Comedy Wire for inspiring some of his most-quoted applause lines in nationally-televised debates.  They write it out of a restored, 1913 money pit...er, "house"...filled with lovable but loudly squawking parrots, mostly disabled or formerly homeless rescue birds who expect a lot of attention, so each day's work is a little miracle in itself.
 

All material © copyright 2005-2008 by Pat Reeder & Laura Ainsworth.