May 11, 2025

Tom Segura Headlines Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival Return PLUS Jimmy Kimmel's New Web Series

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Johnny Mac delivers the latest comedy news, celebrating the return of Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival after financial issues and new ownership. Headliners include Tom Segura, Mae Martin, and Russell Peters, with additional acts like Michelle Buteau and Adam Ray. The festival runs from July 16th to 27th. In other news, Jimmy Kimmel launches a new web series 'The Rabbit Hole' satirizing conspiracy video podcasts.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Happy Mother's Day. I Johnny Mack with

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your daily comedy news Montreals. Just for last comedy festival

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is beck Baby. Your headliners Tom Sigora, May Martin, Russell

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Peters some other big names not included in the headliner

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line come in on Gianni Fortune, Fiemester, Michelle Butto and

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Adam Ray. You may recall the festivals canceled last year.

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There were some financial issues and JFL has a new

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ownership now. CEO Sylvaine parent Badard said the team has

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worked so hard in the last few months to build

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back and put in place a great festival, a stable festival.

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This is good news for the community, good news for Montreal,

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good news for the comedy industry, and something that we're

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really proud of. I'm rooting for them. That was the

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best festival you could argue. Now the Netflix one is better,

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but different because the Netflix one has bigger names at

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this point. But part of that is because they do

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in Los ange Us and it's not like a centralized

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festival the way Montreal is. If you go to Montreal,

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it's all within I don't know, five blocks of each other,

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and it's really easy to bounce around. When I go,

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I can see three four shows a night, whereas La

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is kind of like, hey, famous person who lives in

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the greater Los Angeles area, do you mind coming down

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to the arena. It's seven thirty and doing a show

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and then you can go home. So it's kind of different.

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So I really hope Montreal comes back and is as

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great as it was just for laughs file for bankruptcy

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in twenty twenty four, citing various financial troubles. There was

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also that pandemic in there that kind of messed things up.

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Prent Bogard said one day, we hope to be recognized

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again as the greatest and biggest comedy festival in the world.

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But I know that we're going to do great this summer,

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and the most important thing for us is comedians having fun,

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fans having fun. I'm glad you open the door there,

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because my initial reaction to the lineup was it wasn't

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quite where the lineups have been in the past. But

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it's a rebuild, so we all understand that, so I'm

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not going to sit your this is a terrible The

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festival runs from July sixteenth through the twenty seventh. Tickets

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go on sale May twelfth. We're on the schedule websites,

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so they've got two Gallas listed with no name attached,

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so there's potential for two really big names coming there.

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In the past, the Galas are very much all stars.

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At this point, they don't appear to have the site

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sorted by date, but some names here, Russell Howard kat Cohen.

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The Just for Laughs Culture Show is back that at

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one point I think was called the Ethnic Show, and

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then was just for the culture right, and now it's

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Culture Show. Let's see this year hosted by Asifa Lee

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from Deli Boys, Andrea Jin and Frankie Conyunis have been

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named to that one May Martin, Adam Rays, Doctor Phil

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Midnight Surprise, Camilnnjianni drop Out, Improv, Rose Battle Canada, Russell Peters, k,

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Trevor Wilson, Sabrina Jay Lees and ns Esmer, Fortune Fimester

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and Michelle Butteou, Tom Sagora, Nina Kanti, Nick Muhammad you

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know him from Ted Lasso, Brad Williams. Oh see, that's

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a name that should have been on the first page.

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Danny Boy New Faces, So that's great. Let me check

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the schedule there see if they're still doing two nights

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of New Faces. I'm really glad that's still happening. No

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schedule yet, Okay. This year's New Faces lineup features four

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distinct showcases, stand ups, three different lineups. Oh wow, that's great.

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So it'll be thirty and characters. That's great. Somebody tell

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missus Mack that her husband's going to wind up in

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Canada for a few days. That's exciting. Three days a

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New Faces. I'm excited for that. The Nasty Show is back,

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and brits Ish is hosted by Ed Gamble. This year,

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Jimmy Kimmel as a new web series parodying video podcasters

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that pedal political conspiracies. This one is called The rabbit

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Hole with Jimmy Kimmel. ABC describes it as the number

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one basement conspiracy video podcast the government doesn't want you

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to see. It'll live on the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel.

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The premiere episode covers the truth about five G. Kimmel

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connects the dots between five G and Barack Hussein Obama,

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unveiling a conspiracy that threads the Five Guys Samberger Chein

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to the band Toto to Tanya Harding to sell Tower

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provider Crown Castle. Why did they make this? I guess

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they had an Internet ad spend. Kimmel says, I'm just

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asking questions. Future episodes of The rabbit Hole will see

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Jimmy Kimmel exposing the secret truth so about time travel,

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boat wakes, windmills, elon musk leprechauns, and waffle houses. Chang

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Wang spoke to the Dartmouth and says this is the

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first tour he's done since the release of Sweet and Juicy,

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and it's the biggest tour of his career so far.

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Shank says, any things will be different after my Netflix premiere,

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but I wasn't sure just how much the needle had moved.

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It's been incredible to see how many people resonated with

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the special and wanted to come out and watch my

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new live show on this tour, despite the fatigue of travel,

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I'm feeling absolutely grateful for the opportunities to do these

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shows for all the fans, old and new. I believe

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I'm still trying to find my voice to be my

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freest self. I think when you write your first few

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original jokes that actually get laughs, you get a sense

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that it's possible that you can be great if you

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keep creating new bits and keep yourself to a hig

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standard to keep honing, tinkering and editing to find the

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strongest version of your ideas. Don't expect them to be political.

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He says, curt events generally seem pretty grim. I don't

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usually discuss those things what are my feelings about them directly,

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but it motivates me to try to do my best

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to make a lasting impression on people who come out

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to enjoy a comedy show. Sarnagarg spoke to The Today

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Show about being a mom and a comedian and says

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you have to be quick on your feet in both jobs.

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As a parent, something news happened constantly, your mind is like,

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what am I gonna do? How am I gonna deal

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with it? Do I say something? Do I retract? Meanwhile,

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I's a comic. You could be workshopping the same material

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like all comics do for years, But that night you

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don't know what's gonna happen. You don't know who's gonna

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be in the audience. You don't know what crisis you're

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gonna deal with. She spoke about mom guilt being on

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the road. I don't know if it ever leaves you.

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My friends whose moms are ninety something, and those moms

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are still feeling guilt. It's hard. Your heart drops every

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weekend because other moms are at my kids' sports and

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they'll send me videos and be like, Oh, he scored

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a goal or whatever big thing happened in basketball, And

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in those moments, I feel like I've missed something. Amy

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Poehler coming back to TV and working with Parks and

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rec Co creator Mike Sure. They're collaborating on a comedy

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for Peacock called Dig. Dig is based on the novel Excavations,

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which will see Amy Poehler and some yet to be

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cast friends doing an Indiana Jones thing. Four women working

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at an archaeological dig in Greece are a wildly different

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crossroads in their lives. When their team uncovers a long

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buried secret with a potential to rewrite history, they find

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themselves at the center of a high stakes international conspiracy. Yeah, okay,

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I mean good pedigree there with Mike Sure and Amy Poehler,

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but that premise seems a little crazy. We'll see, But

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what do I know? Because Fox has renewed Dennis Leary's

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Going Dutch. You people watched that really. You may recall

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that Going Dutch stars Dennis Leary doing Dennis Leary things

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as the arrogant, loudmouth US Army Colonel Patrick Quinn reassigned

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to the Netherlands after an epically unfiltered rant. Yes, the

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wacky Army base has a Michelin star Commissary Mary, a

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bowling alley, a laundromat, and he's surrounded by wacky characters,

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including XO Major Abraham Shaw played by Danny Putty from Community.

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Apparently people watch this thing, so Going Dutch coming back

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for season two. Going Dutch averages eight hundred and forty

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two thousand viewers. Meanwhile, Animal Control with Joel McHale got

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another season. I think it's their third. Michael Thorne is

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the president of the Fox Television Network. It says Animal

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Control and Going Dutch are proven winners thanks to signature

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Fox characters brought to life by Joel and Dennis, two

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of the funniest comedic voices on TV today, giving us

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an ideal foundation for building our new comedy block. And

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that is your comedy news for today. See Tomorrow