The Definitive Guide to Comedy
One of Montreal’s New Faces of comedy from the 2012 Just For Laughs festival found success even before leaving the festival last weekend. Josh Rabinowitz has been tapped by Apple as its newest TV spokesman, and ads featuring Rabinowitz as an “Apple Genius” began airing over the weekend, during broadcasts …
Anyone who thought that Andy Kindler’s annual State of the Industry speech at Montreal’s Just For Laughs had become predictable or stale over the past two decades obviously didn’t see and hear Kindler on Friday afternoon. A resurgent Kindler — buoyed by a pitch-perfect impersonation of him by James Adomian …
After stirring keynote speeches by Lewis Black and Marc Maron over the past couple of years, Patton Oswalt took to the stage adjacent to the Hyatt lounge on Thursday afternoon to deliver the third annual keynote for the Just For Laughs Comedy Conference in Montreal. Oswalt employed self-deprecation right off …
For the past couple of decades, Montreal’s “New Faces of Comedy” has represented a watershed moment in the careers of stand-up comedians. Getting invited to Montreal for New Faces meant you had made it. Or maybe you hadn’t made it just yet, but this represented your big break, your chance …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival just got that much more interesting, as FOX announced Wednesday that it had ordered The Short-Com Comedy Hour, with up to nine episodes airing next summer and showcasing stand-up comedians in four mini sitcoms (short-coms) per hour. “We are basically ripping open the traditional scripted comedy …
This is the list the show business industry and the comedy community has been waiting a full year for…Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces for 2012! These are the up-and-comers plucked from New York City, Los Angeles and points in between to be given the biggest spotlight they’ve ever had, …
Just For Laughs may never have become the world’s largest international group of comedy festivals if not for Andy Nulman. After all, it’s difficult to imagine now. But in its first two years, Just For Laughs only existed for a weekend in Montreal — and only then for its French-speaking …
The dance card is almost full for July’s 30th annual Just For Laughs Montreal comedy festival, as the fest rolled out lineups for its one-person shows at Zoofest, as well as adding multiple Galas and shows. You can see what shows already were announced at put up for sale for …
Montreal’s big daddy of comedy festivals celebrates its 30th anniversary this summer, and Just For Laughs has revealed much of its headlining acts for the fete that runs through most of July. Highlights include Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the rest of the Muppets, Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Bob Saget, John Pinette, Lewis …
Is there a comedian you’d absolutely love to see in Montreal this July as part of the 30th anniversary of the Just For Laughs festival? Then not only can you voice your opinion to the JFL programming people, but also get a chance to see that performer(s) for yourself! And …
