The Third Annual Toronto Just For Laughs Festival presented by WestJet will be held July 15-19, 2009 at several key theatres and comedy clubs around Toronto including Massey Hall, Winter Garden Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Panasonic Theatre, Berkeley Street Theatre, Glenn Gould Studio, Yonge-Dundas Square, Absolute Comedy, Comedy Bar, Mark Breslin’s Yuk Yuk’s, The Rivoli and The Second City. This year’s Festival will feature over 200 of the world’s best comedic performers in more than 50 shows in five days and in three different languages! For a comprehensive schedule and to buy tickets visit, www.hahaha.com/toronto. Tickets begin as low as $20. Hotel packages are also available.
The Toronto Just For Laughs Festival presented by WestJet features international headliners John Cleese, Sarah Silverman, John Leguizamo, Louis CK, Bo Burnham, and John Pinette; ethnic superstars such as Danny Bhoy, Steve Byrne, Rachel Feinstein, Godfrey, Akmal Saleh, as well as Paul Varghese, Sunil Pal, and Papa CJ performing in Hindi; and Canada’s very own, Shaun Majumder, Jeremy Hotz, Nikki Payne, Colin Mochrie, Sugar Sammy, Jon Dore, Frank Spadone and Debra DiGiovanni, who will host the Homegrown Canadian Comics competition.