One of the highlights of a trip to Asheville is going on a LaZoom comedy bus tour.

But did you know there's a kids version as well?

Let's check it out.

[bright music] - LaZoom is an opportunity for connection through laughter with their friends and family, sometimes with strangers and definitely with the city that they're visiting.

Asheville and Charlotte are two magical cities and we're proud to bring people around and make them feel more of a sense of connection with them while they're visiting.

So Asheville is a city with a lot of buried history.

So we like to get you on the bus, drive you around, show you where things happen, take you into neighborhoods you might not discover on your own.

It's heart, it's a sightseeing tour, but we tell our stories with lots of jokes.

- It brings the people out on the streets into the bus.

Yeah, we used to pick up street performers along the way.

And yeah, just different ways of playing with why are people coming to Asheville and how can we share some of our secret sauce with them so that they can go home and spread that into their communities too.

And it's through comedy, homemade costumes, poking fun at life.

- What we do is we do a whole bunch of research in the beginning.

If it's a ghost tour, then we're researching all of the ghost stories in town and then we're adding jokes and little by little they get more and more and more jokes because all of our different comedians will put their own input into it.

We're kind of coming from a different, a lot of different angles, so hopefully appealing to all kinds of different sense of humor.

And it's just to have fun.

And we really see people that are from totally different walks of life at some point during the tour, making eye contact, they don't know each other and laughing together.

- Our flagship tour is our city sightseeing tour.

We have one in Asheville called the Hey Asheville and in Charlotte, the Hey Charlotte tour.

It's a 90-minute city sightseeing tour and you'll be visited by several characters throughout the tour in Asheville.

One that we're really known for are our nuns.

Just a variety of other characters that have a little bit to do with the history or current culture of the city that we're in.

The same goes for our adult only ghosted comedy tour.

It's one hour long.

In Nashville we have our Little Boogers Kids comedy tour and a lot of costume characters coming and going.

That comedy on that one is geared towards kids between the ages of five to 12 really.

But it's such a fun one.

It typically runs on Saturday mornings.

- It's for little kids, but it's also for everyone that little kids decide to bring with them.

I think there's a lot of surprises on the kids' tour that are really fun, but there are some that you just know if you know LaZoom at all.

We have a nun on the outside of our building, so they're all very, very big.

They're all larger than life, they're colorful.

A lot of these you're seeing on the street before they come onto the bus to interact with you, which is own sense of funny in itself.

They're going to be interacting, especially with the kids.

Any of the characters that you see are definitely going to be talking to you and interacting with you.

It's tons of fun.

- I think the best parts of LaZoom is that it's an opportunity to learn about Asheville while having a really good time.

There's a lot of tours that'll go around and you know, different types of Asheville activities where you get to learn about things, but nothing where your cheeks hurt at the end because you're laughing so hard.

- Thank you.

[audience laughs] - With LaZoom being around for almost two decades in Asheville, they're part of the community in so many ways.

If anyone comes to town, of course they need to experience LaZoom because it's part of who Asheville is.

It's part of our fabric.

[lively music] - LaZoom Tours is located at 76 Biltmore Avenue in Asheville with tours scheduled throughout the week.

Call [828] 225-6932 or head to lazoomtours.com to get tickets for their Asheville Kids comedy tour.