TBS has announced that it will launch a new Chicago comedy festival in association with Montreal’s Just For Laughs in 2009 and will host The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas this November. HBO has bowed out of the festival business, ending the long-running US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen and its involvement with The Comedy Festival.
The Just For Laughs: A Very Funny Festival will take place in Chicago for five days during the summer of 2009 and will feature stand-up comedy, improv and sketch shows. Ellen DeGeneres has signed on to participate in both festivals.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
