The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This year, Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival has expanded to include a two-day Just Comedy industry confab to discuss the state of comedy and network and do all of those things that someone interested in taking their comedy career to the next step should be doing. Over the next two …
The Comic’s Comic proudly announces he has made it across the border into Canada and landed safely in Montreal, acquired media credentials for the 2008 Just For Laughs festival (media badges get a blue hue, which matches my site very nicely) and found my hotel room with Internet access. Hoo-ray. …
It’s the second week of the 2008 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, which means we finally learn the identities of this year’s crop of New Faces and Masters to perform later this week. Much more to come, as I’ll be reporting from Montreal starting on Wednesday. For now, though, …
Bob Odenkirk treats us to a peek today at the upcoming sketch showcase at the 26th annual Montreal Just For Laughs festival. Odenkirk will co-host with SNL’s Bill Hader. Odenkirk’s wife manages Hader, he says, "so that’s how he got swindled into it. The shows are the 16th and 17th… …
Just For Laughs may be only about six weeks away, but that’s still enough time for a few Southern-based stand-up comedians to make a good impression and get on the "New Faces" lineup — there’s a final showcase audition tonight at Goodnight’s in Raleigh, NC. Among the hopefuls: Seaton Smith …
The folks at Just For Laughs announced part of its 2008 slate for Montreal yesterday (proving once again, that a blogger cannot take a day off!)… This year, Montreal introduces its first "industry conference" — Just Comedy — with Ivan and Jason Reitman talking father-son comedy shop on July 17, …
For all the talk about Lucky Louie and how unlucky it was with HBO last year, you need to move on. Louis CK certainly has. He has a DVD out of "Shamless," his one-hour HBO special from January, but he’s developed an even funnier brand-new hour of material since then, …
As they say in France, que sera sera, je ne sais quoi — which translates into not one but two cliches. As for French Canada and Montreal, what better way to close out the 25th anniversary of Just For Laughs than with a gala hosted by native son William Shatner. …
The New Faces of Comedy showcase is Montreal's version of the Best New Artist Grammy. Most of the 16 stand-ups selected for this week's showcases have several years of experience onstage, but they're new in the eyes of industry scouts, because this is the first step up the festival ladder. …
The guys from Kids in the Hall reunited onstage for three nights only this week at Just For Laughs in Montreal. Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson hadn’t performed together for a live audience in about five years, and it showed a bit in their …