Stand up For Mental Health wants you to be funny!

From: Stand Up for Mental Health Newsletter

SMH COMEDY SOCIETY WANTS YOU: TO BE FUNNY!!!

We are currently recruiting comics for our Stand Up For Mental Health class beginning on July 21, 2026.

Founded by award-winning stand up comic and counselor David Granirer who himself suffers from bipolar, Stand Up For Mental Health is an award-winning program that teaches folks with mental health and addiction issues how to perform stand up comedy all about their mental health and addictions journeys.

The course is 6 months long and classes are in-person. Classes are on Tuesdays from 11 am – 2PM at a location near Clark and Venables in Vancouver.

Cost is by sliding scale, NO ONE is EVER EVER turned away for financial reasons!

For more info on the program www.smhcomedysociety.org

To register contact David Granirer for a short intake interview david@smhcomedysociety.org  778 883 9242

We do two shows, a debut after 3 months and a grad show at the end of the program, exact locations and dates TBC.
Must be 19 years or older.

BTW – here’s a link to a great five minute piece that CBC the National news did on us. It will give you a really good sense of what we do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glGfT3uAZs

David Granirer, RPC, M.S.M. he/him
Executive Director, SMH Comedy Society
p: 778 883 9242
david@smhcomedysociety.org
http://www.smhcomedysociety.org

Please direct all inquires to: david@smhcomedysociety.org 

Please direct all inquires to: david@smhcomedysociety.org