The Battle of the Chicago fests!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on February 21st, 2008

It’s a donnybrook! Mere hours after the folks at Just For Laughs announced their festival plans for Chicago in ’09, comes this press release (Click on “Press”) from another faction, planning a comedy festival in Chicago in the fall of this year:

It’s that rich legacy that prompted veteran film and television producers Jason Brett and John Davies (About Last Night, Run’s House, Comic Relief Presents) to create the Chicago Comedy Fest, a national entertainment event currently slated for Fall, 2008 with three days of performances at Chicago’s landmark Navy Pier, two broadcast specials to be taped live as part of the Fest and a comedy film series event in partnership with National Lampoon.

We sheared off the top sentence (it was a real snoozer!), but the above graf tells you all you need to know.

So far, they haven’t named any names, talent-wise, but they’re promising the standard festival fare– “…over 100 performers on three stages over three days at Navy Pier, the producers expect some of the biggest names in entertainment to participate. The Fest will celebrate the diversity of comedy by offering a variety of comedic voices and genres from stand-up and sketch to musical satire and improvisation.”

The “high-profile Blue Ribbon Advisory Board” sounds a little heavy on the improv/acting side of things, but, from all indications, there’ll be a lot of standup.

Stay tuned.

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