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Comedy festival

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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 comedy festival and one of top 5 in world)
  • Algé'rire, In Algiers, Algeria, the largest comedy festival in the country
  • 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
  • Glasgow International Comedy Festival (Europe's largest comedy festival)
  • Melbourne International Comedy Festival
  • FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival
  • YYComedy Festival
  • Cologne Comedy Festival
  • Just For Laughs Montreal (Largest international comedy festival in the world)
  • Iowa Comedy Festival
  • Great Plains Comedy Festival
  • Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
  • HK International Comedy Festival
  • Halloween Howls Comedy Festival
  • Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival
  • 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[1]
  • Stand Up Fest - Indonesia

    • References

    Comedy festival Wikipedia
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