Michael Moore has announced the 2012 Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival has been suspended due to a scheduling conflict with a beer festival that announced they were holding their event on the weekend reserved for Comedy Festival. Moore and Jeff Garlin issued a statement and thanked fans for their support in the decision to cancel the festival for 2012.
“Sadly, we are suspending the Comedy Fest this year. This is not what we want to do. But we aren’t going to compete with people drinking a lot of beer. One of the reasons comedians like to come to our festival is because it is a refreshing change from the clubs they play and the drunks they have to deal with most everywhere else…
After looking in vain for another weekend that could work for the 2012 comedy fest, we decided to take the year off to regroup and look for a different weekend for 2013.”
