Comedy fest line-up

On Sunday, if you were listening you'd know that What's So Funny? broke the line-up for the upcoming Vancouver (Global) comedy festival (September 17-27). Today, it's official. Here's the line-up. Some new faces, plenty of old ones, but lots of laughs either way.

• James Adomian
• Tom Arnold
• Scott Aukerman
• Maria Bamford
• Arj Barker
• Todd Barry
• Matt Besser & Matt Walsh (UCB Theatre)
• Alonzo Bodden
• Carol Burnett
• Hannibal Burress
• Comedy Death-Ray
• Sean Cullen
• Andy Daly
• Jon Dore
• Garfunkle & Oats
• Phil Hanley
• John Heffron
• Moshe Kasher
• Andy Kindler
• Ben Kronberg
• Jason Lamb
• Natasha Leggero
• Jerry Minor
• Kumail Nanjiani
• Tig Notaro
• Jimmy Pardo (and his podcast Never Not Funny)
• Picnicface
• Jon Reep
• Tim Rykert
• Rory Scovel
• Pauly Shore
• Steve Smith (aka Red Green)
• Nick Thune
• Paul F. Tompkins
• Larry Vazeos
• Reggie Watts
• Brent Weinbach
• Kurt Weitsmann (of the San Francisco sketch troupe Comedy Noir)

So what do you think? Opinions? Faves? Anyone you can't wait to see? Anyone you wish they had brought in?

A few festival names

It's not until September 17-27, but I got some names for the upcoming Global Comedy Fest Vancouver. These names were all found on-line, either at the artist's website or at the Ticketmaster site:

• Pauly Shore will somehow get enough people to show up for him at the Vogue Theatre on Sept. 12
• Last Comic Standing fifth season winner Jon Reep will be at Lafflines in New West from Sept. 17-19
• Last Comic Standing second season winner John Heffron will be at Lafflines the following weekend, Sept. 24-26
• Natasha Leggero will be somewhere in town Sept. 24-26
• the first Best of the Fest at the Centre on Sept. 25 will be hosted by Tom Arnold
• the second Best of the Fest on Sept. 26 will be hosted by Red Green
  

Okay, that's only six names, but it's a start. If you hear any more, do tell. Why don't we start a wish list here in the comments section?

I just realized that two names have, indeed been announced. Carol Burnett will be back to answer any other questions you may have missed last year. She'll be at the Orpheum on Sept. 24. And Jon Lajoie will be at the Vogue on the 25th.