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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.
Comedy festivals
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A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:
- Netflix Is A Joke Festival
- Skankfest
- The Portland Comedy Festival
- Moontower Comedy Festival
- Leicester Comedy Festival (In Leicester, England the UK'S longest running comedy festival and one of top 5 in world)
- Algé'rire, In Algiers, Algeria, the largest comedy festival in the country
- ComediHa! Fest-Québec (In Québec City, Canada, one of the largest international comedy Festival in the world)
- JFL NorthWest
- Big Pine Comedy Festival
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Glasgow International Comedy Festival (Europe's largest comedy festival)
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- YYComedy Festival
- RuhrHochDeutsch (Dortmund, Germany) (Germany's largest and longest comedy festival, which lasts almost 100 days)
- Cologne Comedy Festival
- Just for Laughs (Montreal, Canada) (Largest international comedy festival in the world)
- Iowa Comedy Festival
- Birmingham Comedy Festival
- Great Plains Comedy Festival
- Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
- HK International Comedy Festival
- Motor City Comedy Festival, Detroit, Michigan
- Ha Ha Harvest Comedy Festival - Portland
- Kilkenny Cat Laughs 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
- Bris Funny Fest
- Stand Up Fest - Indonesia
- Brisbane Comedy Festival
- SF Sketchfest - San Francisco Comedy Festival
- Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
- Tringe Festival, Tring, England
- Machynlleth Comedy Festival, Machynlleth, Wales
See also
References
- Lobell, Kylie Ora (16 August 2018). "A Comprehensive Guide to Comedy Festivals in the U.S. and Around the Globe". Vulture: Devouring Culture. Vox Media Network. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- overtakes theatre in Edinburgh Festival Fringe first; Published Thursday 5 June 2008 at 18:00 by Thom Dibdin
- ^ Guardian.co.uk - Five top comedy festivals around the world Retrieved 2012-06-01.
- https://www.waz.de/kultur/article405323494/ruhrhochdeutsch-2024-diese-komik-stars-kommen-nach-dortmund.html
External links
McCarthy, Sean L. (27 February 2017). "The Definitive Guide to Comedy Festivals for 2017". The Comic’s Comic. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
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