Just For Laughs abandoning Montreal?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on June 19th, 2007

Go to the Montreal Just For Laughs website and click on the link to “Festival,” then click on the link to “Toronto Festival.”

There’s going to be a three-day Just For Laughs… in Toronto, July 26-28 just after this year’s fest in Montreal.

Hmmm… first the host hotel shifts a few blocks over and down to the Hyatt, now the fest continues on for another three days in another city.

We called the exodus of the Aspen fest from Aspen. Might the JFL be inching toward exit in Quebec? Or is it a pre-emptive strike? Something to forestall anyone from starting a rival fest in that Ontario burg? (They’re bringing in heavy hitters– Craig Ferguson, George Lopez and Howie Mandel— so they mean business!)

Stay tuned!