Jon Blair

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival has announced a slate of live programming for the 19th Annual Festival taking place March 6-17, 2024 at The Theatre Centre and Comedy Bar Bloor in Toronto.

Toronto Comedy All Stars and Roast Master Bash will present 'The One with the FRIENDS Roast' at Yuk Yuk's on March 1st. Learn more about the event here!

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) returns March 4 a?" 15, 2020 for its 15th Anniversary, making it Toronto's longest running comedy Festival. TOsketchfest will mark this milestone with 12 days of the best scripted, ensemble comedy from across North America at Crow's Theatre, The Theatre Centre, and Comedy Bar.

The Peoples Improv Theater (The PIT) presents the eighth annual NYC SketchFest 2019, bringing 132 of the best sketch comedy groups from around the country and the world together in one place. This years festival is focused on 'the different voices of sketch' by highlighting diverse groups from the emerging New York City sketch scene alongside national headliners.

The year is 2069. Six rebels fight for freedom from an evil, dystopian government but two in their midst are secretly traitors! Will the rebels be able to out the spies before they thwart their missions to overthrow the government? Watch as both the actors and the audience guess along in this improv show filled with cyber-hackers, sentient traffic robots, cyborg sports-stars, and serious laughs.

Canadian Comedy Award-winning Rapp Battlez makes its OFF-JFL premiere at the Katacombes on Tuesday, July 24 at 11:59 p.m., and then joins Just For Laughs outdoor programming with two performances on the Loto-Quebec Stage on Wednesday, July 25 at 10 p.m. and Friday, July 27 at 8:30 p.m. Co-hosted and co-created by brothers Miguel Rivas (The Beaverton) and Freddie Rivas (Confederacy of Dunks), the wildly popular sketch comedy smackdown gives some of Canada's most talented sketch comedians a platform to square off against each other for comedic, tete-a-tete rap battle supremacy. 

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) proudly announces the first wave of programming with highlights from over 60 sketch comedy acts from across North America, performing March 1-11, 2018 in Toronto at The Theatre Centre and Comedy Bar.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) has announced their final round of programming including PAUL FEIG: An Interview by Bruce McCulloch, and the first annual TOsketchfest Film Festival.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) today announces the first wave of programming with highlights from the Festival Series. TOsketchfestwill host over 60 sketch comedy acts from across North America, March 1-12, 2017 at The Theatre Centre, Comedy Bar and The Drake Underground. 

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) has announced their final round of programming including PAUL FEIG: An Interview by Bruce McCulloch, and the first annual TOsketchfest Film Festival.

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (TOsketchfest) today announces the first wave of programming with highlights from the Festival Series. TOsketchfestwill host over 60 sketch comedy acts from across North America, March 1-12, 2017 at The Theatre Centre, Comedy Bar and The Drake Underground. 

By now, you've heard of E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotica novel that found mainstream success and wide readership in 2011. You probably even know it spurned a trilogy (what isn't a trilogy these days). And you may have even read at least a portion of the novel yourself. You may have swooned over Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey's torrid and steamy couplings and love affair. Well, Houston's Society for the Performing Arts is ready to make you relive the release of America's pent-up sexual frustration and laugh raucously at the same time with their presentation of Mills Entertainment's SPANK! THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Tuesday, April 24 the nominations for its 2012 television awards. British miniseries 'Appropriate Adult,' which chronicles the real-life serial killer Fred West, leads the way with four nominations.