laughfest

Today, the nation’s first-ever community-wide festival of laughter, Gilda’s LaughFest, announced the first round of talent and shows for the festival’s fifth year which will be held March 5 to 15, 2015. The announcement included performers that are new to the festival, as well as some past favorites returning to take part in the festival’s fifth year. The headliners announced Tuesday include: Geor

Comedians April Macie and Brad Williams have a show at 8 p.m. March 11 at The Orbit Room in Grand Rapids. 97.9 'GRD Rocks is offering you a chance to get up to four free tickets to the Gilda's LaughFest performance, which is for ages 21 and older.

Tuesday morning the Grand Rapids Art Museum was a sea of yellow as folks gathered for the announcement of 2014's Laughfest lineup. An early announcement was made that long-time comedian Lily Tomlin would be featured as one of the festival's headliners, but who else will be coming to Grand Rapids March 6-16?

It was a busy time for Grand Rapids this past weekend. Not only was St. Patrick's Day coming up, but comedy festival Gilda's LaughFest was entering the final stretch of their 10-day marathon. The first Live at Night With the Free Beer & Hot Wings Show was Friday night (March 15) at The Intersection and one of the many sold out showcases during LaughFest.

LaughFest 2013 kicked off last night, March 7th in Rosa Parks Circle.  Over 1,500 people from all over West Michigan came downtown to help break an odd world record.  The record they were trying to beat was the most people with fake mustaches in one area at one time.

LaughFest is only a couple of months away.  Ticket packages were on sale, those purchase opportunities are now closed. The first chance at individual tickets arrives on Friday, January 11.

Almost as exciting as this past Tuesday's election is this upcoming Tuesday's announcement of the LaughFest 2013 lineup.

Probably one of the funniest dudes you've never heard of but should.  Marc Maron is an icon in the world of comedy.  If you've ever subscribed to his podcast you'll know exactly what I'm taking about. His podcast show “WTF with Marc Maron” hits #1 on the iTunes comedy charts regularly, boasting over 36 million downloads to date and has been called a “must-listen” by Vanity Fair and New York Time

I love this girl. She brings a fresh new perspective to comedy versus the usual older cantankerous, grizzled & cynical comics you're normally accustomed to hearing. Nikki's been doing the comedy thing since she was 18. After becoming a semi-finalist in season 4 of Last Comic Standing, she killed em at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal, Canada. Th...

Whether it’s stealing scenes in major motion pictures or blowing the roof off any comedy club from Hawaii to Halifax, Jimmy Shubert is stand-up comedy’s next breakout star.

You're gonna love Mike.  One of the funniest comedians on the Laughfest 2012 line up in my opinion.  Here's some backline on Mike's career.

One of my favorite times of the year is March when Laughfest arrives. All kinds of comedy in many different forms takes over our city. Gonna put the spotlight on one of my favorites; Anthony Jeselnik. Jeselnik was most recently a writer on Jimmy Fallon's Late night Show but now he's off and running doing his thing on stand up stages all over the country...