The Definitive Guide to Comedy
San Diego (and New York City) may have their Comic-Cons, but Silicon Valley will have it’s first-ever Comic Conival this June, thanks to Nerdist leader Chris Hardwick. Only it’s not called Nerdist fest. This June 24-25, 2017, Hardwick presents the ID10T Music Festival & Comic Conival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre …
Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy will put on their own comedy and music festival this summer, and they’re taking it on the road across America. RFD-TV presents Jeff & Larry’s Backyard BBQ Festival, promoted exclusively by Live Nation, will feature the comedy of Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy, along …
Almost as if I’d just produced my annual list of comedy festivals and asked the folks at Superfly for details about their planned summer shindig with Comedy Central in San Francisco, here comes Colossal Clusterfest! It’s happening June 2-4, 2017, at the Civic Center Plaza & Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, …
PLEASE GO TO MY NEWLY CREATED COMEDY FESTIVALS PAGE FOR A MORE TIMELESS LISTING OF ALL OF THE FESTIVALS Last year, it seemed as if there were a comedy festival somewhere in the world every weekend, if not more than one. How does 2017 stack up compared to 2016? Here’s …
The New York Comedy Festival has a new TV partner: TBS. After spending 2016 relaunching its own comedy brand — and with it the premieres of Angie Tribeca, The Detour, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Wrecked, People of Earth and Search Party – all ranking among cable’s Top 25 new comedies …
If you think Donald J. Trump becoming President of the United States of America is a gift to comedians, well, not exactly. In fact, some comedians are rallying against Trump and raising money for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), staging a nationwide festival of shows over the Inauguration Day …
If you thought there weren’t enough comedy festivals in 2016…and there’s got to be some of you out there…or if you really feel there isn’t a significant enough comedy festival in the United States to trump (pardon the term) Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the Edinburgh Fringe or Melbourne, then Comedy …
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
The fourth annual Oddball Comedy & Curiousity Festival should have kicked off this Thursday, but the all-star outdoor stand-up comedy tour from Funny or Die and Live Nation has cancelled the first four dates, as well as four more in September. Oddball 2016 has scaled back from 21 tour stops …
The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) announced today that it’d accepted a record 63 independent pilots for its TV and digital consideration this fall. “We were blown away by the talent and creativity of this year’s submissions – across the board it was a record-setting year and we had an …
