Comedy festival


A comedy festival is a celebration of comedy with many shows, venues, comedy performers and is held over a specific block of time. Normally, each festival has a diverse range of comedy themes and genres.

Notable examples

  • Birmingham Comedy Festival
  • Bris Funny Fest
  • Busan International Comedy Festival
  • Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival
  • Cologne Comedy Festival
  • Edinburgh Festival Fringe
  • 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
  • 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's largest and longest comedy festival
  • SF Sketchfest in San Francisco
  • Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
  • Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
  • World's Funniest Island