| Bio | Just For Laughs is active in many areas of entertainment production including festivals, television, theatre and touring. Its inaugural Montreal Festival took place 26 years ago is now the world’s largest and most prestigious comedy event, welcoming over 2 million people each summer. During its 26 years, the Montreal Festival has featured some of the top comics in the world, including Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Ray Romano, Dane Cook, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Tim Allen. Each year, over 1,000 industry executives are drawn to Montreal for what is considered the hottest breeding ground for new talent. In the spring of 2006, the company’s French division launched the Festival Juste pour rire Nantes Atlantique in France. In 2007, Just For Laughs launched the Just For Laughs Toronto Festival to great success, and the company recently announced a collaboration with TBS to launch Just For Laughs: A Very Funny Festival in Chicago in June 2009. The company also successfully tours across the globe bringing some of the Festivals’ best talent to Canada, the U.S., Bermuda and Asia and has personal management offices in Los Angeles, Paris, London and Montreal. Just For Laughs television shows are seen in over 139 countries and on over 97 airlines around the world, in the past have been seen on MTV, Showtime, HBO, BBC America, ABC and Fox in the US. Just For Laughs is currently seen in Canada on CBC, as well as The Comedy Network. |
