This Is Who We Are
Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness
Kim Holderness
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The world feels heavy and instead of trying to joke our way around that, this episode is about sitting with it. This week, Penn and I talk about how a post we made about hope turned into a political statement, the process behind the scenes, and how we're feeling. We are very lucky to have a fun job, but it doesn't mean it's not challenging in times like these. Sometimes it's hard to make comedy when you want to cry.
We know you came for the humor, we hope you'll stay for the humanity. Penn and I are here for joy, for laughter, and for standing with people who need it. We believe laughter and compassion aren’t opposites. Sometimes humor is how we survive, and sometimes it’s how we tell the truth. We’re all still learning, growing, and trying our best to love our neighbors well. We promise to keep showing up as our full selves... funny, flawed, and deeply human. (And with a cookie cake.) Thanks for being here.
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Laugh Lines with Kim & Penn Holderness is an evolution of The Holderness Family Podcast, which began in 2018. Kim and Penn Holderness are award-winning online content creators known for their original music, song parodies, comedy sketches, and weekly podcasts. Their videos have resulted in over three billion views and over nine million followers since 2013. Penn and Kim are also authors of the New York Times Bestselling Books, ADHD Is Awesome: A Guide To (Mostly) Thriving With ADHD and All You Can Be With ADHD. They were also winners on The Amazing Race (Season 33) on CBS.
Laugh Lines is hosted and executive produced by Kim Holderness and Penn Holderness, with original music by Penn Holderness. Laugh Lines is also written and produced by Ann Marie Taepke, and edited and produced by Sam Allen. It is hosted by Acast. Thanks for listening!
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know heal the world? |
| 0:01.2 | Make it a better play. It's Michael Jackson. For you and for me and the entire human race. There are people dying. Hey, everybody. I'm Kim Holderness. Not for the living. Welcome to laugh lines. For you and for me. I feel like that should be the enter of the show. Okay. |
| 0:39.9 | Hey, it's laugh. What's up? Sorry, we were just singing Heal the World. If you know what heal the world is. And you know the lyrics. This podcast is for you. If your middle school, high school |
| 0:46.9 | honors chorus was asked to perform this at a benefit, you went to Jordan. Okay. So stop, stop, stop, stop. |
| 0:54.7 | There was a regular chorus. |
| 0:56.6 | Yep. |
| 0:57.2 | And then there was an honors course. |
| 0:58.9 | Jazz hands. |
| 0:59.6 | Yep. |
| 0:59.8 | So what sort of special privileges did the honors chorus get? |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.9 | So a lot of a lot of choreo. |
| 1:06.1 | A lot of choreo. |
| 1:06.8 | We went to visit our sister city, |
| 1:12.6 | which is. |
| 1:13.1 | Durham, England. |
| 1:14.8 | Okay. |
| 1:15.6 | We also went to Batelona. |
| 1:17.7 | On our senior year trip with where our teacher was like this, we're going to go there in the spirit of peace. |
| 1:26.7 | And like, we're going to blow their minds. And every show we went to, they were like, what in the world of peace and like we're going to blow their minds and every show we went to |
| 1:29.5 | it. They were like, what in the world's going on about that, might? You just made them |
| 1:33.8 | Australian? There were some cockney accent in Durham. So they weren't impressed with you? They were |
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