Comedy festival

 ( Comedy ) 

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.

• Birmingham Comedy Festival
• Bris Funny Fest
• Busan International Comedy Festival
• Cat Laughs
• Cologne Comedy Festival
• Edinburgh Festival Fringe overtakes theatre in Edinburgh Festival Fringe first; Published Thursday 5 June 2008 at 18:00 by Thom Dibdin
• Glasgow International Comedy Festival, Europe's largest comedy festival
• HK International Comedy Festival
• Just for Laughs (Montreal, Canada, the largest international comedy festival in the world Guardian.co.uk - Five top comedy festivals around the world Retrieved 2012-06-01.
• Leicester Comedy Festival, the UK's longest running comedy festival
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival
• New Zealand International Comedy Festival
• Perth International Comedy Festival
• RuhrHochDeutsch in Dortmund Germany'
• SF Sketchfest in San Francisco
• Sydney Comedy Festival
• Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
• Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
• World's Funniest Island

• List of improvisational theater festivals