PFI, a professional multi-faceted comedy company, has been on stage in Birmingham for over eight years with weekly Improv performances. After a summer off, we are returning to Birmingham's Lakeview Entertainment District. In addition to their highly successful weekly performances, PFI also brings the funny to private events across the southeast region and across the country. But PFI is more than just an entertainment company, they also an educational company that offers professional development to organizations through its Improv-based training using its principle known as “Laugh-While-Learning.” PFI works with some of the major employers in the southeast region on such topics as communications, team-building, leadership, creative thinking and other soft business skills. Another facet of PFI’s educational component is their public comedy classes for teens and adults. PFI offers classes in Improvisation, comedy writing, digital comedy shorts and stand-up comedy. Included in their offerings is a special class format developed for autistic teens and young adults which has proven highly successful. The funny folks at Positively Funny Inc. use the processed from their work to fund their youth and teen oriented not-for-profit organization known as Perform-4A-Purpose. This arm of PFI takes on the issues of anti-bulling, teen suicide and school violence using the performing arts as its teaching tools.