La fureur returns for the 40th anniversary of the Just for Laughs Festival

Adapted from the cult show of the same name, the show angry was presented for the first time in 2019 on Just for Laughs, which delighted nostalgic fans and karaoke fans. The great musical game is supposed to be re -watched in 2020, but the pandemic has decided otherwise.

Élyse Marquis will return to hosting this year, as will Joël Legendre to direct. Thus, the public will see Michelle Desrochers, Matthieu Pepper, Barbada or even Ève Côté competing this season angry July 21 at 9:15 pm on the Beneva stage, located at the Place des Festivals.

The next day, on the same stage, comedian Erich Preach will lead an evening of a mixture of humor and diversity and be baptized. The amazing fate of Erich Preach. From 9:15 pm, comedians Mike Beaudoin, Rachelle Elie, Garihanna Jean-Louis, Dave Morgan and Daniel Tirado, as well as hip-hop orchestra Urban Science Brass Band and rapper Imposs will parade on stage.

Another outdoor event to highlight for the 40th anniversary of the festival: the show 40 years of real fun! directed by Alex Perron, held every 9 pm from July 21 to 30 at Place Loto-Québec. Many artists including Julie Dombrowski, José Dufour, Yannick Fahey, and Stéphanie Fournier will pay tribute to dance and music in productions that have marked the history of Just for Laughs over the past four decades.

The complete outdoor program is available on the Just for Laughs website (New window).

Galas is hosted by Rosalie Vaillancourt and Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais

The festival also promises to be very rich in paid indoor programming, with a series of galas led by a new generation of comedians. Pierre-Yves Roy-Desmarais will open the ball on July 20 with two galas on the same night that will offer a fun mix of song and absurd humor.

At 6 pm, at the Théâtre Maisonneuve, Charles Pellerin, Alexandre Forest, Mégan Brouillard and Marylène Gendron will arrive to support the comedian who won three times in the last Gala Les Olivier, while the 9 pm gala will be greeted on stage by Pascal Cameron, Phil Roy, Sam Boisvert and Sam Cyr.

Comedian Phil Roy and singer Roxane Bruneau will jointly take the helm of the two galas on July 21, at exactly 6pm and 9pm, along with some guests like Silvi Tourigny , Martin Perizzolo, Charles Beauchesne and Yannick de Martino.

The third gala evening, led by Eddy King and Richardson Zéphir, will be held on July 22 according to the same formula with two performances and will see Guillaume Wagner, Louis T, Mike Beaudouin and Neev, among others, parade on stage.

Rosalie Vaillancourt will officiate the closing gala portion of the festival on July 23 with a thousand and one anecdotes about her new life as a mother. She will be surrounded on stage with Katherine Levac, Jean-Sébastien Girard, Suzie Bouchard, Colin Boudrias and Jean-Michel Martel.

The 6 pm gala is a bit more family -friendly, for new parents, while staying in my style. This is an issue about childbirth and having a baby that I have been writing about for the past 6 months. […] I really want to talk about the positive side of motherhoodexplained Rosalie Vaillancourt.

On the second gala, I talk about the fact that I want to make people happy, that I want to be perfect and it hurts me to disappoint people. It’s a number that’s really rhythmic, pretty absurd, that almost makes you dizzy.

An evening of painful humor with Jean-François Mercier and Maxim Martin

For fans of a little more offensive humor, the Jean-Duceppe Theater will present on July 28, at 9 pm, the show. The Rebels – United Disturb, hosted by bilingual comedian Pantelis. This show where anything goes will feature Jean-François Mercier, Thomas Levac, Maxim Martin, Preach and a mysterious guest.

It should be noted that Maxim Martin will also take advantage of the festival to present his show Fuckoffcurrently on tour, like Virginie Fortin on her second solo show, My feelings. Will be screened respectively on July 27 and 30 in Duceppe.

Spotlight on the next generation

Again, the Just for Laughs festival will be a great venue for the next generation along with the Revelation Series. The public will discover the shows To not dieby Alexandre Forest; Everythingby Alexandre Bisaillon; The latter reallyfrom Pantelis; The crows look at me strangelyby Charles Beauchesne and Invincible, by Simon Delisle. All of these shows are held in the Salle Claude-Léveillée in the Place des Arts.

This series will also be an opportunity to see the first steps in the humor of radio host Jean-Sébastien Girard, who will feature a reading of his first single show, A child like no other, its entry will begin shortly. A reading like no other will be shown on July 22, at 8:30 pm, in Claude-Léveillée’s still room.

20 000 tickets are sold for Mike Ward wiretaps at the Bell Center

Let’s remember in passing that young comedian Mathieu Dufour and veteran Mike Ward both had big nights planned at the Bell Center, the first to perform Mathieu Dufour at the Bell Center (July 23) and the second to record a live episode of the popular podcast Mike Ward wiretaps (July 22nd).

We already have over 20,000 tickets sold. The Best Podcast live before that, it was in front of 9000 people, by a British couple. So we doubled the world record. And this is the record for the largest comedy show at the Bell Center, all languages ​​combinedsaid the comedian. If we were able to sell all the tickets [il en reste mille]we will be the biggest seller in Bell Center history.

The festival’s complete interior program is available on the Just for Laughs website (New window).

This text was written from interviews conducted by Catherine Richer, cultural columnist on the show 15-18. Comments may have been edited for clarity or brevity.