Comedy festival
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.
Comedy festivals
A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:
- Leicester Comedy Festival [www.comedy-festival.co.uk/] (In Leicester England the UK'S longest running comdey festival and one of top 5 in world)
- Festival ComediHa! Fest[www.festivalcomediha.com] (In Québec City, Canada, one of the largest international comedy Festival in the world)
- JFL NorthWest
- Big Pine Comedy Festival[www.bigpinecomedyfestival.com]
- Edinburgh Fringe[1][2]
- Glasgow International Comedy Festival (Europe's largest comedy festival)
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival[2]
- FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival
- YYComedy Festival
- Cologne Comedy Festival
- Just For Laughs Montreal (Largest international comedy festival in the world)[2]
- Iowa Comedy Festival
- Great Plains Comedy Festival
- Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
- HK International Comedy Festival
- Halloween Howls Comedy Festival
- Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival[2]
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- Perth International Comedy Festival
- Sydney Comedy Festival
- World's Funniest Island
- New Zealand International Comedy Festival
- Busan International Comedy Festival
- Lucille Ball Comedy Festival
- Xanthi Comedy Festival - Greece
- Stand Up Fest - Indonesia
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