The 2008 sketchfest lineup!

The Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2008 Festival, our 4th annual, taking place November 18 – 23rd:

7 Minutes in Heaven (Toronto)
A Week of Kindness (New York)
Accidental Company (Toronto)
Approximately 3 Peters (Toronto)
Boiled Wieners (Toronto)
Bull Hooey (Toronto)
Dance Party of Newfoundland (St. John’s)
Death Ray Cabaret (Toronto)
Dinkus (Toronto)
Drop Six (New York)
Free Love Forum (New York)
Frenzy (Toronto)
FUCT (New York)
Gypsyslick (Toronto)
I Hope It’s Potatoes (Toronto)
Kathleen Turner Overdrive (Toronto)
Last Call Cleveland (Cleveland)
L’Brondelle’s Edutainment (Toronto)
My First Crush  (Toronto)
OneTwoThree  (Chicago)
Parker and Seville  (Toronto)
Polecats  (Toronto)
Press, Release, Repeat  (Toronto)
punchDRYSDALE  (Toronto)
Shame is Right  (Toronto)
Smells Like the 80s  (Toronto)
Statutory Jape  (Toronto)
Summer of Tears  (Los Angeles)
The Boom  (Toronto)
The Remainders  (Toronto)
The Riot (Toronto)
The Sketchersons (Toronto)
The Understudies (Toronto)
The Williamson Playboys (Toronto)
Trophy Wives (Toronto)
Uncalled For (Montreal)

Full Festival schedule will be available to the public on www.torontosketchfest.com by October 17th, but troupes performing in the Festival will receive a welcome email with further information shortly. Programming is subject to change; specialty shows and professional development events will be announced at a later date.

New This Year!

The TSCF is pleased to announce that the Festival will include performances at Toronto’s three top comedy venues: The Diesel Playhouse, The Second City and Comedy Bar. The addition of a third venue will allow most Festival troupes (and all out of town troupes) two performances in the Festival schedule.

The Festival will continue the tradition of honouring top-quality troupes through various awards, and is pleased to announce that The Best of the Fest Encore Show performance will take place in February 2009. This move will allow greater opportunity to promote the show to industry, media and the general public.

Thank you to everyone who put their name in the ring to perform in this years’ Festival! We saw an outstanding number of videos of very high quality, and as always, the job of the programming jury was not an easy one.

See you in November!