Though Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club in Vegas has injected some new life into the comedy circuit in and around The Strip over the last few years, the primary attraction for going to Las Vegas has been and still is gambling.

That said, there are exceptions to that make it worth venturing to Sin City to catch something other than slot machines everywhere you look, professional gamblers playing poker at all hours of the day and night, and other activities that might be prohibited elsewhere in the U.S.

The Life Is Beautiful Fest is Vegas’ annual weekend festival that combines music, comedy, art, food, and more not unlike Tennesee’s Bonnaroo or SF’s Outside Lands and have quite the comedy line-up. For the 2022 edition, they stacked The Kicker, the comedy part of the fest, with one of NYC’s landmark shows, Butterboy with Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla, and Maeve Higgins, Joel Kim Booster who continues to have a banner year in 2022, the star upstart on SNL, Sarah Sherman, and even Hannah Einbinder and Megan Stalter playing Vegas as their brilliant selves versus Ava and Kayla on Hacks. Podcasts Going Deep with Chad and JT, Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily, and Y2YAY with Sydnee Washington and Marie Faustin are slated to go up at Life Is Beautiful Fest too running from Sept. 16th-18th in Downtown Vegas.

1-Day passes start from $180 plus fees and 3-Day passes start from $380 plus fees. If this all up your alley, go get passes right here right now.