The Just for Laughs Comedy Festival is held in July in Montreal and is the largest comedy festival on the planet. It has been celebrating the world’s best and funniest comedians for going on 27 years. Each year, more than 2 million people visit the festival each summer. The Just for Laughs Festival has seen some great performers in the past, including stars like Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, Dane Cook, John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson and Tim Allen. Each year, hundreds of industry executives go to to Montreal to check out the breeding ground for hottest new talent. It is not the first time the event has left montreal, as in spring 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. With both those comedy festivals a success, it looks like Just for Laughs Chicago tickets are going to be a pass to some awesome times.

The company also successfully tours across the globe bringing some of the festivals’ best talent to Canada, the United States, 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 more than 97 airlines around the world and in the past have been seen on MTV, Showtime, HBO, CMT, BBC America, ABC and Fox. Just For Laughs: Montreal is premiering on Comedy Central this May. Just For Laughs is currently seen in Canada on CBC, as well as The Comedy Network. Just For Laughs is active in many areas of entertainment production including festivals, television, theater and touring.

About TBS

TBS, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., is television’s top-rated comedy network. It serves as home to such original comedy series as My Boys, The Bill Engvall Show, 10 Items or Less, Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and Meet the Browns; an eagerly anticipated late-night series starring George Lopez; hot contemporary comedies like The Office, My Name is Earl, Sex and the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, King of Queens, Seinfeld and Friends; specials like Funniest Commercials of the Year; special events, such as TBS Presents a “Very Funny” Festival: Just For Laughs in Chicago in June; blockbuster movies; and hosted movie showcases.