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The Lovely CIty of Galway, Ireland Is Going to Have a Great Comedy Festival

September 23, 2013

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The Lovely CIty of Galway, Ireland Is Going to Have a Great Comedy Festival

Not only is Galway, Ireland one of the more scenic places in the country, especially as it’s situated right on the western coastline making for gorgeous sunsets, it’s going to be the site of what has the ingredients for a great comedy festival this October.

Namely, Eddie Pepitone, Glenn Wool, Set List: Improvised Stand-Up as well as hilarious UK talents of Stewart Lee, Russell Howard, Omid Djalili are performing and if you just happen to be in Ireland, you should make it out to this.

Europe’s Montreux Comedy Festival Holding Free Stand-up and Sketch Contest

September 20, 2013

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Europe’s Montreux Comedy Festival Holding Free Stand-up and Sketch Contest

With no entry free, you can enter to perform over in Europe at the Montreux Comedy Festival in Switzerland this December. Dailymotion is taking in submissions from stand up comedians and sketch performers up to the end of October.

Winners, which will be picked by from a group of voter picked finalists, get hotel, airfare, and meals covered. Submit/enter at the link.

The LA Podcast Festival to Offer Podcast Lab Where You Can Podcast with Festival Podcasters

September 10, 2013

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The LA Podcast Festival to Offer Podcast Lab Where You Can Podcast with Festival Podcasters

You read that right. The upcoming LA Podcast Festival happening Oct. 4-6th (tickets are on sale now) is also featuring a Podcast Lab sponsored by Squarespace where, if you bring your own equipment, you can do a podcast with many of the festival guests podcasters.

In short, Marc Maron might just make fun of your podcast on your podcast.

So Dick Cavett, Bobcat Goldthwait, and Rick Overton Are Going to Woodstock

September 8, 2013

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You might have guessed from the headline that there’s now a Woodstock Comedy Festival. Well, not only is that real, but the likes of Dick Cavett, Bobcat Goldthwait, College Humor Live, UCB’s Touring Company, Rick Overton, and more coming to the legendary land of Woodstock to put on a festival of the more comedic persuasion.

It’s taking place in less than two weeks on Sept. 20th-22nd and tickets are now on sale (plus they’re supporting a charity).

Hannibal Buress Brings His “Gibberish Rap” vs. Actual Rapper Bun B

September 5, 2013

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Minus the Hartford controversy, there’s plenty of great hijinks being had at Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Oddity Festival/Tour.

For instance, while Oddball stopped in Houston, Hannibal Buress made fun of some rap lyrics, specifically some by Bun B, then get confronted by Bun B, then doing a rendition of Hannibal’s single “Gibberish Rap” in response to Bun B asking how Hannibal can critique lyrics when he’s a comedian.

Watch it all go down here.

What We Were Witness to at Everything Is Terrible & Cinefamily’s “Everything Is Festival”

August 28, 2013

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Powerviolence throwing toilet paper at crowd during Fox ADHD Pizza Party

Last week, we got to attend a bit of Everything Is Terrible and Cinefamily’s Everything Is Festival bringing you comedy from the YouTube generation, had a wonderful time, and noticed these things in particular below/after the break:

1) There is a whole new subculture/division/category of comedy that we saw at Everything Is Festival with the supercut, Vine videos (there was an entire panel on Vine that was really great and a lot of people showed up to), video mash-ups, skateboarding-comedy troupe Powerviolence (throwing TP at crowd and doing a boy hunks of Instagram competition), vintage video games, an entire musical from Comedy Bang! Bang! and a general sense of appreciating things that were, at one time, considered awful now in a brand new context as something hilarious.

2) Sitting around watching weird YouTube videos has kind of grown up as people were cheering for a lot of specific clips during video mash ups as if they were a band’s classic singles leading us to the conclusion that the 1990s were a long time ago.

3) While some of you might want to write off a lot of this is as niche comedy or some hipster BS, the fans of everyone in this festival showed up in droves, lining themselves around the block down Fairfax and were pretty thrilled the whole way through sans any irony (i.e. if glowsticks were thrown in the crowd and they were, people grabbed them and started dancing).

4) Everything Is Festival could be described as a comedy festival of tomorrow for the new territory they delve into comedy wise, but we’d say use the term tomorrow in a much more literal sense than a few years away.

Tig Notaro Curating Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival in Oct.

August 27, 2013

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Tig Notaro Curating Bentzen Ball Comedy Festival in Oct.

Though you might have not heard from Tig Notaro as of late, trust that she’s been busy at work behind the scenes. Not only has she been working on her stand up quietly as well as her Showtime series doing shows at people’s houses, but she’s also curating a comedy festival for BrightestYoungThings.com called the Bentzen Ball Festival to be held in our nation’s capital Washington D.C Oct. 10th-13th.

So far, there will be Jon Dore, Doug Benson, Wyatt Cenac, Everything Is Terrible, and Ira Glass slated to perform much much more to be announced and there are limited tickets on sale.

You might not want to miss this if you’re anywhere along the Eastern seaboard.

Check Out the Brooklyn Comedy Festival That’s Already Underway

August 21, 2013

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Check Out the Brooklyn Comedy Festival That’s Already Underway

If you’re either a big comedy fan that’s living in or around NYC or you’re someone that needs a comedy festival fix right now and can’t wait until the end of September for The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, then The Brooklyn Comedy Festival is for you.

The Brooklyn Comedy Festival will have performances from some of the best from around the 5 boroughs including: Dan Soder, Seaton Smith, Mike O’Brien, Josh Rabinowitz, Kevin Barnett, The Lucas Brothers, Hari Kondabolu, Nick Turner, Aparna Nancherla, Myq Kaplan, Neal Statsny, Mike Lawrence, Murderfist and much more…

…also, it’s happening right now through Saturday.

Line-up/Tickets for 6th Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival

August 18, 2013

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Line-up/Tickets for 6th Annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival

We’ve been quite fortunate with the wave of comedy festivals coming on this side of country over the next several months, not to mention the plethora of comedy nightly here in LA. However, if you’re closer to the Atlantic than the Pacific, you might want to check out Eugene Mirman’s comedy festival now going on its 6th year.

At the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival will be Kristen Schaal, Jim Gaffigan, Ira Glass, Wyatt Cenac, Jon Benjamin, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael Che, Kurt Braunohler, Leo Allen, Jena Friedman, Dan St. Germain, and many more doing shows with such fun titles as The Urbane Comedy Hour: Non-Stop Courtesy and Culture Through the Prism of Comedy.

The festival runs Sept. 26th-29th in Brooklyn and you can get your tickets at the link.

Here’s the Line-up for the 2nd LA Podcast Festival

August 17, 2013

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Here’s the Line-up for the 2nd LA Podcast Festival

WTF with Marc Maron, Never Not Funny w/Jimmy Pardo, Walking the Room w/Dave Anthony & Greg Behrendt, Fitzdog Radio w/Greg Fitzsimmons, The Todd Glass Show, Probably Science, The Jake Fogelnest Podcast, The Dana Gould Hour, The Indoor Kids, Dining with Doug and Karen, Jordan, Jesse, GO!, improv4humans w/Matt Besser, Keith and the Girl, Deep Shit with Baron Vaughn, and more TBA are all coming to beautiful Sheraton Delfina Hotel in Santa Monica this October for the second edition of The LA Podcast Festival.

If the line-up wasn’t enough to get you to go, know that we went last year and had a blast that we wouldn’t have just listening to an episode of it later.

Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily Will Mostly Be Livestreamed

August 13, 2013

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Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily Will Mostly Be Livestreamed

Many of you, for many reasons, won’t be able to attend what looks to be an amazing Everything Is Festival that’s already under way. You don’t have the dough to go or perhaps you don’t live anywhere near LA, etc.

Well, luckily, Cinefamily’s live streaming a lot of the festival, especially the live portions including Comic Relief Zero w/Tony Clifton, Comedy Bang! Bang! The Musical, Fox ADHD’s Pizza Party, Show and Tell with Maria Bamford, Mondo Public Access, and more.

So check the schedule for shows and times to watch because you don’t want to recreate what happened by just reading tweets about it.

Catch Up on Outside Lands’ Barbary Comedy Tent Thanks to Courting Comedy

August 11, 2013

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Catch Up on Outside Lands’ Barbary Comedy Tent Thanks to Courting Comedy

Our cousins up north at San Francisco’s premier comedy blog Courting Comedy are on the ground at the Outside Lands Festival getting the scoop on what’s happening at what is surely another amazing Barbary comedy tent.

Read their recaps at the link to find out what all of us not at Outside Lands all missing.

More Great Comedy to Come to Austin, TX During Fun Fun Fun Fest

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Kyle Kinane, The Eric Andre Show, Jonah Ray, Jenny Slate, Patton Oswalt, Tenacious D, and many more are making festival style comedy a regular thing in Austin as part of the comedy line-up for Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in November.

Get your passes now.

Starting Today, There’s a Comedy Festival Honoring Lucille Ball in NY

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Starting Today, There’s a Comedy Festival Honoring Lucille Ball in NY

We know this is a last minute update on something happening, for most of you, across the country, but The Lucille Ball (yes, that comedy legend Lucille Ball) Comedy Festival is underway boasting so many great comedians from the likes of Kathleen Madigan to Jackie Kashian to Mark Normand to Joe Machi to Andy Sanford to Myq Kaplan and more over the next three days.

If you’re around Jamestown, NY, you might want to check it out.

Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival Line-up Announced/Tickets on Sale

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Reggie Watts, Kurt Braunohler, Kyle Kinane, Beth Stelling, Nikki Glaser, Sean Patton, and the comedic stylings of Denver’s own Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, Andrew Orvedahl, and many more are coming together for Denver’s first High Plains Comedy Festival.

On Aug. 23rd & 24th, if you’re in or around Denver or can get there, you’re not going to want to miss this, so, if that’s the case, get your tickets right now.

So, What Happened at Just For Laughs Montreal This Year?

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Unlike last year, we were unable to go to one of comedy’s biggest events all year long, The JFL Montreal Comedy Festival, this past weekend, but many of our friends over at The Spit Take, Time Out NY, The Laugh Button and Laughspin did manage to get across to see and report on what was happening.

Check their recaps below:

The Laugh Button

Andy Kindler’s State of the Industry Address

Colin Quinn’s Keynote Address (Laughspin)

More Dates Added to Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival/Tour

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In this promo, Brody Stevens gives you a tour of what’s going to happen at Funny or Die’s mega comedy festival/tour Oddball, which does have Dave Chappelle and Flight of the Conchords, but also has Kristen Schaal, Jim Jefferies, John Mulaney, Hannibal Buress, as well as Brody Stevens as the second stage host, and much more.

Honestly, this might be one of the biggest comedy tours in recent memory so don’t miss out if you get a chance to see it (tickets are on sale now by the way).

Still Time to Submit to Salt Lake City’s Comedy Carnivale

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Still Time to Submit to Salt Lake City’s Comedy Carnivale

Salt Lake City’s first comedy festival SLC Comedy Carnivale is still taking submissions up until July 15th. If you’re interested in getting into festivals as a comedic performer and it’s not too much of a hassle for you to get to Utah, then maybe you should get your submissions materials together for this.

They’re taking stand up, sketch, improv, and film by the way.

Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival Tour Tickets Are Now on Sale

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Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival Tour Tickets Are Now on Sale

From Irvine, CA to Camden, NJ, you can now get tickets for Funny or Die’s comedy festival/tour Oddball, which, in case you didn’t know, is more than just Dave Chappelle going back on tour (there’s Kristen Schaal, Jim Jefferies, Hannibal Buress, Flight of the Conchords, John Mulaney, and more).

Miss JFL Chicago? Catch Up with Wandertown & JFL Dailymotion Showcases

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Just For Laughs Chicago just happened over this past weekend and unfortunately we weren’t all lucky enough to be in Chicago (or maybe you were at Bonnaroo watching comedy & music there). Either way, you can catch up a little with JFL by listening to Wandertown with Andy Peters and watching live show clips of Andy Daly, Baron Vaughn, Ben Roy, Cameron Esposito, Michelle Buteau, Sean Patton, and more at JFL Chicago’s Dailymotion page.

Dave Chappelle & Flight of the Conchords Headlining Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival

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Funny or Die expanded their empire by making a feature this year and it will extend it even further by putting on a comedy festival tour. The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival is touring 13 different cities around the U.S. (Denver, Phoenix, Houston, Pittsburgh, and more) with the likes of Dave Chappelle, who you can finally see not dropping in, Flight of the Conchords, Hannibal Buress, Kristen Schaal, and much more.

Oddball will be starting in August going through September and tickets go on sale this Friday 10AM PST. Watch the bitchin’ announcement video a la a monster truck rally TV spot here.

Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme Is Happening This October on Santa Monica Pier

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Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme Is Happening This October on Santa Monica Pier

Boasting the likes of Sarah Silverman, Mr. Show, Tig Notaro, Zach Galifianakis, Eric Idle, Reggie Watts, Fred Armisen, Princess (Maya Rudolph’s Prince cover band), Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Neil Hamburger, and more in addition to the comedy rock gods duo Tenacious D themselves, Jack Black and Kyle Gass are putting together quite the one day comedy rock festival.

Called Festival Supreme, it’s going to take place at the Santa Monica Pier Sat. October 19th, and if you have the dough (tickets go from $99-$250), you can be part of what could be pretty amazing.

Coupled with the LA Podcast Festival taking place two weeks before also in Santa Monica, you might want to stay on the west side of LA for comedy in October.

Andy Peters’ Wandertown Is Going to JFL Chicago

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If you enjoyed the hysterical Andy Peters’ travels and reporting at The Bridgetown Comedy Festival up in Portland this year through his SoundCloud podcast, Wandertown, you’ll definitely love that Peters is doing the same great running around recording all the exclusive things to be seen and heard and laughed at during the Just For Laughs Chicago this upcoming week.

Follow Andy’s wandering, interviewing, and more through JFL Chicago here starting this Tues. Jun. 11th.

Denver Is Getting a Great Comedy Festival Curated by Adam Cayton-Holland and Andy Juett

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Denver Is Getting a Great Comedy Festival Curated by Adam Cayton-Holland and Andy Juett

In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of great comedy things are happening in Denver as of late. Not only are the great comedy group, The Grawlix, located there, but the upcoming High Plains Comedy Festival will take place in Denver curated by Grawlix member and hilarious comedian Adam Cayton-Holland and Denver comedy stalwart Andy Juett.

Oh, we should probably mention it’s happening in August and will have the like of Kyle Kinane, Sean Patton, Nikki Glaser, Rory Scovel, and more.

The Salt Lake City Comedy Carnivale Now Accepting Submissions

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The Salt Lake City Comedy Carnivale Now Accepting Submissions

Salt Lake City is having it’s very first comedy festival and is now taking early submissions for $20 in stand-up, sketch, improv, and film. The SLC Comedy Carnivale is set for Sept. 17th-20th.