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A comedy festival is a celebration of comedy with many shows, venues, comedy performers (such as stand up comics, sketch troupes, variety performers, etc.) and is held over a specific block of time. Normally, each festival has a diverse range of comedy themes and genres.
New York Comedy Festival; ... Stand Up for Heroes; T. Times Square Comedy Festival This page was last edited on 25 February 2023, at 22:43 ...
Just for Laughs (French: Juste pour rire) was a comedy festival that was held every July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Founded in 1982, it was the largest international comedy festival in the world. [1]
NEW BEDFORD —The SouthCoast's only stand-up comedy festival, Whale City Comedy, is back for a second year from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, showcasing over 30 top-notch comedians from Comedy Central, ...
There’s a stand-up comedy festival coming to the SouthCoast. The Whale City Comedy Festival is being held from Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, with events spanning the New Bedford and Fall River areas.
He takes the art of stand-up comedy seriously and it shows. He’s one of the best joke writers in the business.” He says he is particularly proud of how the comic has helped to elevate new voices.
Stand-up comedy originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century. These include vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues, such as those delivered by Mark Twain in his 1866 ...
This is a timeline documenting events and facts about English-speaking stand-up comedy in the year 2025. January January ...