Just for Laughs Road Show 2022

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Montreal 2022 – Just For Laughs is delighted to be back on the road with some of the funniest comedians around! The 17th edition of the Just For Laughs Road Show will bring four hilarious comics to a town near you for an evening of belly laughs and busted guts. Hosted by Juno nominated stand-up and SiriusXM Top Comic Winner

Adam Christie, the evening will feature CONAN’s Laurie Kilmartin,The Daily Show’s Josh Johnson, and Australia’s beloved Randy Feltface. Don’t miss some of the best acts from the world’s largest and most prestigious comedy festival when the Just For Laughs Road Show rolls across Ontario this spring!
Adam Christie is a Juno nominated stand-up comedian and Canadian Screen Award winning writer from Toronto, Ontario. He has written for the television shows Baroness Von Sketch Show and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and has appeared on the shows Schitt's Creek, What We Do in the Shadows, and The Expanse. Adam is the most recent winner of the SiriusXM Top Comic competition at JFL 42, which earned him an appearance at Just for Laughs Sydney, where he performed three shows at the world famous Sydney Opera House. In his 20's Adam was the host of The Zone Weekend on YTV, where he once beat a 13-year-old girl in a free throw shooting competition.

Laurie Kilmartin is a comedian and staff writer for CONAN. She has performed standup on CONAN, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Apple TV, Comedy Central, and Showtime. Her Seeso special 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad made Vulture's list of Top Ten Comedy Specials of 2016. Laurie has also written two books, Dead People Suck and the New York Times bestseller Shitty Mom. She and fellow comic Jackie Kashian host a popular podcast about standup comedy called The Jackie and Laurie Show. Her new album, Corset, was released at #1 on the iTunes charts.

Josh Johnson is a storyteller, comedian, NAACP award-winner, and Emmy-nominated writer. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and is a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Johnson’s other credits include, CONAN (TBS), @Midnight, and Kevin Hart's Hart of The City. He tours the country with Trevor Noah, and his first hour special #(HASHTAG) premiered on Comedy Central and Paramount Plus in the summer of 2021. The critically acclaimed special, executive produced by Noah, was named one of the best specials of 2021 by Vulture magazine and The NY Times. His self-released comedy and music mixtape album ELUSIVE, described by Vanyaland as “live stand-up observational humor with musical compositions. Both elements wade in and out of political and social waters between the two “arcs”of the multi-genre epic", debuted June 2021. Johnson lives in New York. His podcast The Josh Johnson Show releases weekly.

Randy Feltface has written and performed eight solo stand-up comedy shows, released three comedy specials, played sold out seasons in London and New York and been nominated for Best Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He made his US television debut on NBC’s Bring The Funny in 2019 and has been invited to perform at the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal on four separate occasions. In 2010 Randy joined forces with musical comedian Sammy J to create Ricketts Lane, which won Best Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and went on to become a television series of the same name, airing in 2015 on ABC TV in Australia, Seeso in the US and Netflix in the UK. Randy's role in Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane earned him an AACTA Award nomination for best performer in a comedy series, the first non-human performer to be recognized in this category. He opened his most recent show Modus Operandy at the Sydney Opera House as part of the 2019 Just For Laughs Festival before shows in London, Amsterdam and an extensive North American tour. Randy’s live show is a high energy existential crisis, full of biting observations, razor sharp crowd work, and rapid arm movements.

Warning: Comedy performances may contain mature content.

The performance of the Just for Laughs Road Show originally scheduled for April 17, 2020, and postponed to May 1, 2021 has been rescheduled again to Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 at 7:30 pm. Your tickets dated April 17 or May 1 are valid and will be honoured on the new date.

Just For Laughs Road Show is an annual tradition and one of the comedy highlights of Grand OnStage year. Selected comics from across the country come together for a wild road trip with a stop in Kingston for your laughing pleasure, one night only!