September
🚗 Motor City Comedy Festival (Sept. 17–21, 2025, Detroit, MI) — Detroit’s indie fest highlighting national talent and local comics. Tickets and/or Info
🎡 Greenwich Comedy Festival (Sept. 17–21, 2025, London, England) — Outdoor tented comedy fest with UK headliners. Tickets and/or Info
⛰️ High Plains Comedy Festival (Sept. 18–20, 2025, Denver, CO) — Indie fest rooted in South Broadway’s bars and clubs, anchored by a Paramount Theatre headliner. Big names include Kyle Kinane, Sean Patton, and Eddie Pepitone. Tickets and/or Info
🍁 Just for Laughs Toronto (Sept. 18–27, 2025, Toronto, Canada) — Canadian edition of the JFL brand. Tickets and/or Info🌴 Hawaii Comedy Festival (Sept. 19–20, 2025, Honolulu, HI) — Stand-up, improv, and workshops in paradise. Tickets and/or Info
🍻 Dublin West Comedy Fest (Sept. 25–27, 2025, Dublin, Ireland) — Local and international comedians across Dublin pubs. Tickets and/or Info
🍁 Edmonton Comedy Festival (Sept. 25–28, 2025, Edmonton, AB) — Four days of stand-up across multiple venues. Tickets and/or Info
🕌 Riyadh Comedy Festival (Sept. 26–Oct. 8, 2025, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) — Saudi Arabia’s largest comedy festival in Boulevard City. Lineup: Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari, Bill Burr, Pete Davidson, Russell Peters, and more. Tickets and/or Info
October
🐪 Dubai Comedy Festival (Oct. 2–12, 2025, Dubai, UAE) — Multi-venue fest with international headliners and multilingual shows. Tickets and/or Info
💎 Big Diamond Comedy Festival (Oct. 2–4, 2025, Bentonville, AR) — Regional festival in Northwest Arkansas. Tickets and/or Info
🏳️🌈 Colorado Queer Comedy Festival (Oct. 2–5, 2025, Denver, Boulder & Fort Collins, CO) — LGBTQ+ comics from Colorado and beyond, with shows across Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins. Tickets and/or Info
🌹 Latina Comedy Festival (Oct. 2–4, 2025, Chicago, IL) — Spotlighting Latina comedians in stand-up and storytelling. Tickets and/or Info
👩🎤 Women in Comedy Festival (Oct. 2–12, 2025, Manchester, UK) — Long-running showcase across six+ venues. Tickets and/or Info
☁️ Big Sky Comedy Festival (Oct. 7–11, 2025, Billings, MT) — Industry-focused stand-up competition with 24 comics across Montana venues. Tickets and/or Info
🧀 Milwaukee Comedy Festival (Oct. 7–12, 2025, Milwaukee, WI) — One of the Midwest’s oldest comedy festivals, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025. Tickets and/or Info
🌄 Colorado Springs Comedy Festival (Oct. 8–12, 2025, Colorado Springs, CO) — 25+ comedians from across the U.S. plus nationally touring headliners. The festival’s top comic earns a professionally produced comedy special from Open Bar Comedy, making this a high-stakes showcase as well as a crowd-pleasing event. Tickets and/or Info
🌈 New York Queer Comedy Festival (Oct. 8–Dec. 4, 2025, New York, NY) — The world’s largest queer comedy festival, held annually at major venues across New York City. Shows spanning nearly two months (most in October). Tickets and/or Info
⚓ Rogue Island Comedy Festival (Oct. 9–12, 2025, Newport, RI) — Intimate seaside festival with shows in breweries, historic halls, and cozy theaters. Tickets and/or Info
🏔️ Helena Comedy Festival (Oct. 9–12, Helena, MT) — Four nights of stand-up from rising stars and seasoned pros across downtown Helena venues. Tickets and/or Info
🎤 Because They’re Funny (Oct. 10–12, 2025, Washington, DC) — Big theater shows and emerging-talent competitions. Headliners: Jay Pharoah, Sommore, Zainab Johnson, Leslie Liao, Tisha Campbell. Tickets and/or Info
🎰 Atlantic City Comedy Festival (Oct. 11–12, 2025, Atlantic City, NJ) — Big-theater comedy festival with national headliners. Tickets and/or Info
🎭 Winnipeg Improv Festival (Oct. 15–18, 2025, Winnipeg, MB) — Returning to the Gas Station Arts Centre, this festival kicks off with a showcase of short-form improv. Featuring a mix of festival ensemble members and Winnipeg’s own comedians, the event highlights playful, experimental configurations designed to delight audiences. Tickets and/or Info
📝 NYC Sketchfest (Oct. 16–19, 2025, New York, NY) — NYC’s premier sketch comedy festival. Tickets and/or Info
🏞️ Catskills Comedy Festival (Oct. 17–19, 2025, New York, NY) — Weekend gathering in intimate Catskills venues. Tickets and/or Info
🎪 Brighton Dome Comedy Festival (Oct. 17–26, 2025, Brighton, UK) — Nine days of stand-up, improv, podcasts, and workshops. Tickets and/or Info
🍀 Galway Comedy Festival (Oct. 21–27, 2025, Galway, Ireland) — Ireland’s biggest comedy festival. Tickets and/or Info
🏞️ Lookout Comedy Festival (Oct. 22–25, 2025, Chattanooga, TN) — Chattanooga’s flagship comedy event, hosting 30+ stand-up comics and industry professionals from across the nation for four days in the Scenic City. Founded in 2018 and still operated as a labor of love by local comedians, the festival features performances at multiple downtown venues, blending established headliners with rising talents from around the country. Tickets and/or Info
🌻 Fountain City Comedy Festival runs October 23–25, 2025, across seven venues in Kansas City, MO. The festival features 20 shows and 50 comedians. Tickets and info.
😂 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival (Oct. 23–25, 2025, Minneapolis, MN) — Citywide event with clubs, theaters, and breweries. Tickets and/or Info
🎲 Laugh After Dark ComedyFest (Oct. 27–29, 2025, Las Vegas, NV) — Now in its 4th year, this festival brings comedy, production, and community together in the Las Vegas Arts District. With 40+ comedians, 25 films, and live tapings, the fest spans The STRAT and Third Street with showcases, screenings, and red-carpet events celebrating the best in comedy. Highlights include comedy shows, film screenings, live tapings, industry education sessions, networking, and an awards ceremony. Tickets and/or Info
November
🌲 Seattle International Comedy Competition (Nov. 2025, Seattle & WA venues) — Month-long touring contest with 32 comedians across 20+ venues. Tickets and/or Info
🎤 Sorry Comedy Fest (Nov. 3–8, 2025, London, ON) — A new festival embracing London’s self-deprecating spirit with stand-up, improv, roast battles, workshops, and the SlideSlam! Canadian finals. Each show even comes with a playful “Sorry Scale” rating (from clean to utterly raunchy), giving audiences a fun way to pick their comedy style. Tickets and/or Info
🌃 312 Comedy Fest (Nov. 4–9, 2025, Chicago, IL) — Large-scale Midwest festival with stand-up, improv, and alt-comedy programming. Tickets and/or Info
🤠 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival (Nov. 6–9, 2025, Austin, TX) — Founded in 2002 as a scrappy improv and sketch gathering (plus a miniature golf tournament), OOB has grown into a multi-venue fest mixing stand-up, improv, and sketch from local Austin talent to national headliners. Tickets and/or Info
🗽 New York Comedy Festival (Nov. 7–16, 2025, New York, NY) — Major citywide event with headliners and late-night sets. Tickets and/or Info
🎭 Just for Laughs Sydney (Nov. 10–22, 2025, Sydney, Australia) — Australian edition at Sydney Opera House. Tickets and/or Info
🎓 Union Comedy Festival (Nov. 13–15, 2025, Somerville, MA) — Produced by Union Comedy, a theater dedicated to long-form improv. The festival highlights house teams, local indie groups, and special showcases, all with an improv-first ethos. Tickets and/or Info
✈️ Flyover Comedy Festival (Nov. 13–16, 2025, St. Louis, MO) — 150+ comedians across 10 stages and 40+ shows. Tickets and/or Info
🤢 Skankfest (Nov. 14–16, 2025, New Orleans, LA) — Punk-rock comedy festival run by Legion of Skanks. Tickets and/or Info
🎬 Ha Ha Harvest Comedy & Film Festival (Nov. 13–16, 2025, Hoboken & Jersey City, NJ) — Stand-up and comedy-film programming across 11+ venues. Tickets and/or Info
2026
🍷 Icebreakers Comedy Festival (Jan. 2026, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON) — Three-night winter fest paired with the Icewine Festival. Tickets and/or Info
🎟️ Leicester Comedy Festival (Feb. 4–22, 2026, Leicester, UK) — One of the world’s biggest comedy festivals. Tickets and/or Info
🍁 The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival (Mar. 4–15, 2026, Toronto, ON) — Showcase of live sketch and film. Tickets and/or Info
🔥 Riot Comedy Festival (Apr. 1–4, 2026, Houston, TX) — Multi-venue fest with 30+ shows, podcasts, improv, contests, BBQ, and day parties. Tickets and/or Info
🌵 Big Pine Comedy Festival (Apr. 8–11, 2026, Chandler, AZ) — Independent U.S. comedy fest with stand-up, panels, and workshops. Tickets and/or Info
🍁 Winnipeg Comedy Festival (Apr. 20–26, 2026, Winnipeg, MB) — 25th annual weeklong fest with themed gala shows. Tickets and/or Info
🎭 Sydney Comedy Festival (Apr. 20–May 17, 2026, Sydney, Australia) — Major citywide fest anchored by the Opera House. Tickets and/or Info
🍁 Halifax ComedyFest (May 6–9, 2026, Halifax, NS) — Long-running festival with shows across multiple venues. Tickets and/or Info🇬🇧 Wells Comedy Festival (May 22–24, 2026, Wells, Somerset, UK) — A jam-packed weekend in the heart of Somerset featuring some of the U.K.’s finest comedians. Plays across multiple venues with a deep comedy pedigree. Tickets and/or Info
🥈 2nd Best Fest (Dates TBD, likely June 2026, Richmond, VA) — Coalition Theater’s three-day comedy gauntlet featuring improv, sketch, and stand-up in Richmond’s Downtown Arts District. The festival brings acts from LA, Chicago, NYC, Baltimore, Raleigh, DC, and RVA together across four venues for a packed weekend of laughs. Tickets and/or Info
🏳️⚧️ Exeter Comedy Festival (June 3–6, 2026, Exeter, UK) — A long weekend of laughter across 14 venues featuring big names like Bridget Christie, Josie Long, and Tim Key, plus family-friendly comedy, workshops, podcasts, and South West UK talent. Tickets and/or Info
🗽 Fun and Dumb Improv Festival (FAD) (July 9–12, 2026, Brooklyn, NY) — A four-day celebration of all things improv, featuring 750+ performers, 200+ shows, three stages, and workshops galore. Pure silly, stupid, and joyfully chaotic comedy. Tickets and/or Info
🌲 Great Outdoors Comedy Festival – Vancouver (July 24–26, 2026, Vancouver, BC) — Outdoor fest at Brockton Point, Stanley Park. Tickets and/or Info
🚜 Columbus Comedy Festival (Likely Sept. 2026, Columbus, OH) — Annual multi-venue fest with comedians