The Definitive Guide to Comedy
While the New York Comedy Festival may see the biggest celebration of comedians in the nation’s biggest city each November, the following month will see the second coming of the Janelle James Comedy Festival in Brooklyn. The Janelle James Comedy Festival announces its first wave of performers who’ll participate this Dec. …
It’s not even August yet, and already Edinburgh is off to the races with this year’s Fringe, including thousands of shows all over the Scottish city for the next four weeks. The Comic’s Comic is here to tell you which of us Yanks are making the trip across the pond …
Adult Swim has mounted fan fests across the nation and even the world. This November, the late-night version of the Cartoon Network is setting up base camp in Los Angeles for two days and nights of comedy, animation and music. The Adult Swim Festival 2019 will happen Nov. 15-16 at …
The schedule and lineup for Toronto’s JFL42 2019 is out! Passes go on sale Friday, with individual tickets available next Friday. Carol Burnett tops the list for Just For Laugh’s month of 42 headliners this Sept. 19-29 in Toronto. Here’s how the night with Burnett is billed. AN EVENING OF …
Romantic comedies may not be what they used to be, in terms of box office, at least. But Hollywood wants us to celebrate the rom-com this summer, as downtown Los Angeles will play host June 20-23, 2019, to the first-ever Rom Com Fest. The lineup announced Tuesday includes a special …
The first Minneapolis Comedy Festival will kick off during the final week of June with a lineup that includes Bob Newhart, Seth Meyers, George Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and YouTubers Rhett and Link. Here are the shows already on sale. Not yet on sale: The June 28 performances …
On Thursday, the Laughing Skull Comedy Festival announced the 60 comedians participating in the 10th annual stand-up comedy contest in Atlanta this May, and it didn’t take anyone too long to wonder what was wrong with that picture. As stand-up Samantha Ruddy posted on Twitter today: But the festival doubled …
We’re already two months into 2019, and if you haven’t already made use of my Comedy Festivals page, please bookmark it for your resources. If you need to know how festivals are coming in time-wise, well, please allow me to sort that information for you here now! MARCH 2019 Brisbane …
We’re less than a couple of weeks away from SXSW, when everybody in technology, film, music and comedy takes over downtown Austin, Texas. The comedy portion of South By Southwest takes place March 8-16, 2019. Here’s what they’ve got on tap this go around… 2019 SXSW Comedy Festival Participants Abbi …
The inaugural Palm Springs International Comedy Festival (PSICF) www.PalmSpringsComedyFest.com continues to come together nicely, a month before kick off. The festival already announced that it’ll present Kathy Griffin with the “Comedian of the Year” Award, and Illeana Douglas the “Pioneer in Comedy Award.” That’s in the first weekend, Nov. 9-11. In the second weekend, …
