Just For Laughs Cancels JFL42 for 2020; Can Montreal Be Far Behind?
by This shouldn’t shock anyone in 2020, but Just For Laughs pulled the plug on this fall’s JFL42 festival in Toronto. JFL announced the news Tuesday. …
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Edinburgh Festival Fringe cancelled for 2020, Just For Laughs Montreal joins crowded September hopefuls
Nobody knows how long we’ll be suffering from coronavirus, or holed up in quarantine. Two of the biggest annual global comedy festivals already have cancelled …
Highlights from Andy Kindler’s 2019 State of the Industry at Just For Laughs Montreal
This year, Ron Funches had the honors of introducing Andy Kindler at Just For Laughs, and Funches took a few of his own swings at …
2019 New Faces assembled!
Check out this year’s crop of New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, as assembled before their first shows together Wednesday and Thursday, and photographed …
Here are your 2019 New Faces of Comedy at Just For Laughs Montreal
Congrats, everybody! NEW FACES OF COMEDY Anna Drezen is a writing supervisor for NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and the co-author of the books How To Win At Feminism and How Many …
Just For Laughs fetes Kevin Hart, Jim Jefferies, Hasan Minhaj, Amanda Seales, “Big Mouth” with 2019 awards
We’re only a week away from the comedy industry’s annual confab in Montreal for Just For Laughs, and JFL has announced which big stars the …
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Kevin Hart is launching an interview podcast, and “Hart to Heart” starts at Just For Laughs in Montreal
This news bulletin is a two-for-one. Just For Laughs announced today that Kevin Hart would return to the Montreal festival this July — he performed …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival is leaning in more to its Canadian roots in 2019
Last week, the folks at JFL (Just For Laughs) announced a slew of additional headliners for the annual comedy celebration that takes place each July …
Just For Laughs muscles up on TV production, hires Spencer Griffin to head it
Just For Laughs, under new ownership over the past year, has gotten more and more involved in additional projects outside of its well-known comedy festivals. …
Episode #249: Lyric Lewis
A classically trained theater major who grew up in New Orleans and Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Lyric Lewis took her degree from Syracuse and headed straight …