Just For Laughs adds Eddie Izzard, Leslie Jones, Kyle Kinane, Ronny Chieng, Neal Brennan, Ramy Youssef and more to festival lineup

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Just For Laughs Montreal announces first slate of 2022 lineup

This year, Just For Laughs is holding their inaugural hybrid festival with Moontower Comedy Fest in Austin, Texas. But that’s… MORE
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Who Won Just For Laughs 2021 Stand Up and Pitch

Even though most of Montreal’s Just For Laughs stuck to virtual digital screens and meet-ups, JFL last week still could host and declare winners for its annual “Stand Up & Pitch” competitions. FROM JFL: Each winning project is inv…

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Just for Laughs announces hybrid New York and L.A. shows for 2021 festival

For comedy fans waiting on more news on the Just For Laughs festival, they announced some news this morning of… MORE
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Just For Laughs to return this July with hybrid programming

Here’s some great news for comedy fans. After an unpredictable 2020 that forced every festival taking place after mid-March to… MORE
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Louie Anderson to deliver Just For Laughs 2019 keynote

Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival has booked Louie Anderson to deliver its keynote address for the 2019 comedy confab next month. Anderson’s address, “Never Give Up,” will touch on his 40 years of ups and downs in show busines…

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Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival is leaning in more to its Canadian roots in 2019

Last week, the folks at JFL (Just For Laughs) announced a slew of additional headliners for the annual comedy celebration that takes place each July in Montreal. They included Wanda Sykes, Blake Griffin, Nick Kroll, Fred Armisen, Ronny Chieng, Steve-O,…

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Just For Laughs, Jessie Jolles team up to help you date better

In the eight years Just For Laughs has been putting up content on YouTube, the vast majority of their videos are stand-up sets recorded at their festival events. However, recently they have quietly released a few high production web shows on their account. Just For Laughs is behind a couple of digital shows including A Couple Questions, Text or Shot, and Definitely Happened. In those series, each episode features different

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Howie Mandel on owning Just For Laughs: “I was chasing this”

Howie Mandel recently opened a comedy club bearing his name in Atlantic City, and he’s long been a mainstay judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. But Mandel’s heart has remained in his native Canada, so when Just For Laughs suddenly became a real-life Deal or No Deal for him, the comedian jumped at the opportunity. […]

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Presenting the JFL Montreal New Faces Class of 2018, soon to be seen on Amazon Prime Video!

Some comedians and industry folk joked that Just For Laughs could no longer really do New Faces in Montreal now that the ICM agency had purchased a large stake in the comedy festival. ICM certainly is getting the last laughs. They’ve packaged New Faces 2018 into a streaming TV series docu-drama with Amazon Prime. So […]

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