Comedy festival

Edinburgh Festival Fringe, United Kingdom, Scotland, 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

See also: Category:Comedy festivals

A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:

• 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
• FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival
• YYComedy Festival
• 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
• 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]
• Bris Funny Fest
• Stand Up Fest - Indonesia
• Brisbane Comedy Festival

See also

• List of improvisational theater festivals