NAME OF FESTIVAL: LA Comedy Festival
SINCE: 1998
WHERE: Los Angeles, CA, USA
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Los Angeles Comedy Festival is the largest comedy festival in the United States featuring film Live comedy acts, and a screenplay competition. The LA Comedy Festival started out as the LA Fest of Sketch, an all sketch comedy festival. After five years, we decided to add a Spring festival that would showcase comedy in all it’s forms, live performance, film, TV, web, screenwriting. After the 1st LA Comedy Festival was so embraced by LA comedy lovers and comedy talent, we decided to absorb our beloved sketch comedy festival and have the LA Comedy Festival become a biannual event.
CAS & DYLAN
The LA Comedy Festival celebrating its 15th season, will take place at the April 24 to May 4, 2014 at Let Live Theatre and The Other Space. Among the 17 Features screening at the festival are the US Premiere of Jason Priestley’s CAS & DYLAN, starring Richard Dreyfuss as a terminally ill doctor on a last adventure.
Canoejacked
The LA COMEDY FESTIVAL runs from November 14 to17 and 21 to 24, 2013 at LET LIVE THEATRE showcasing features and Shorts, lots of world premieres and of course comedy acts. Films on the lineup include the USA Premiere of the Canadian film CANOEJACKED, directed by Jonathan Williams and starring Al Sapienza, Mpho Koaho, and Pat Thornton, about two escaped convicts fleeing from a trigger-happy prison guard hijack a getaway canoe owned by a nudist outdoorsman.