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.
A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- Sydney Comedy Festival
- FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival
- Cologne Comedy Festival
- Just For Laughs Montreal (Largest international comedy festival in the world)
- Iowa Comedy Festival
- Great Plains Comedy Festival
- Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
- HK International Comedy Festival
- Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival
- New Zealand International Comedy Festival
- Lucille Ball Comedy Festival
- Xanthi Comedy Festival - Greece
Famous quotes containing the words comedy and/or festival:
“Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”Man innocent rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”Ma hard rhyme; for “school,” “fool”Ma babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)