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Halifax ComedyFest is one of Canada's longest-running comedy festivals. Taking place in April each year in Halifax Nova Scotia, it is also nationally broadcast on CBC and CBC Gem.
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Applications for Halifax ComedyFest 2025 are now closed. Halifax ComedyFest 2025 takes place May 7 to May 10, 2025 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Please email your submission to Christina Edwards at [email protected] .
About the Fest - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
Celebrating 30 years in 2025, Ha!ifax Comedy Festival began in 1995 as an Atlantic Canadian comedy festival, promoting and showcasing talent from the Atlantic Provinces in the clubs of downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Please note applications to perform at the 2025 Halifax ComedyFest are now closed. The application process for the 2026 festival will open in May 2025.
Laugh & Stay - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
Our host hotel, Atlantica Hotel Halifax, is offering a special room-only rate of $179 (plus taxes and fees) per night during Halifax ComedyFest.
Ryan Belleville - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
Ten appearances at Just for Laughs festival and dozens of televised appearances on CBC’s Halifax Comedy Festival, The Winnipeg Comedy Festival, Comedy Now, Live at Gotham, CBS’s The Late Late Show, and MTV’s Busted.
Clare Belford - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
3pm Pub Comedy (May 10) Clare Belford is a comedian and a very nice person. Hailing from northern Alberta, she cut her teeth early on by forcibly telling deeply personal jokes about womanhood to drunk tradesmen.
Allie Pearse - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
In 2023, she performed at Just For Laughs on the Russell Peters gala, in 2022 she was a 'New Faces' performer at the Just For Laughs festival and is the winner of JFL’s 2021 Standup & Pitch competition.
Kelly Taylor - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
Kelly Taylor has performed at Montreal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival as well as ones in Halifax, Winnipeg, Edmonton & Vancouver. He has entertained the Canadian troops overseas three times including once by demand for the Minister of …
Janelle Niles - halifaxcomedyfest.ca
Janelle is a full-time stand-up comedian, EMCEE, content creator, TV Personality and producer of Got Land? Indigenous comedy show. She hopes one day to perform in New York City. Her humour is described as eccentric yet captivating.