Comedy festival

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.

Comedy festivals
A partial list of well-known comedy festivals includes:
 * The Portland Comedy Festival
 * Moontower Comedy Festival
 * Leicester Comedy Festival (In Leicester, England the UK'S longest running comedy festival and one of top 5 in world)
 * Algé'rire, In Algiers, Algeria, the largest comedy festival in the country
 * ComediHa! Fest-Québec (In Québec City, Canada, one of the largest international comedy Festival in the world)
 * JFL NorthWest
 * Big Pine Comedy Festival
 * Edinburgh Festival Fringe
 * Glasgow International Comedy Festival (Europe's largest comedy festival)
 * Melbourne International Comedy Festival
 * YYComedy Festival
 * Cologne Comedy Festival
 * Just for Laughs (Montreal, Canada) (Largest international comedy festival in the world)
 * Iowa Comedy Festival
 * Birmingham Comedy Festival
 * Great Plains Comedy Festival
 * Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival
 * HK International Comedy Festival
 * Motor City Comedy Festival, Detroit, Michigan
 * Ha Ha Harvest Comedy Festival - Portland
 * Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival
 * Perth International Comedy Festival
 * Sydney Comedy Festival
 * World's Funniest Island
 * New Zealand International Comedy Festival
 * Busan International Comedy Festival
 * Lucille Ball Comedy Festival
 * Xanthi Comedy Festival - Greece
 * Bris Funny Fest
 * Stand Up Fest - Indonesia
 * Brisbane Comedy Festival
 * SF Sketchfest - San Francisco Comedy Festival
 * Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival
 * Machynlleth Comedy Festival, Machynlleth, Wales