History

The LA Comedy Festival started out as the LA Fest of Sketch, an all sketch comedy festival. After five years, we decided to add a Spring festival that would showcase comedy in all it’s forms, live performance, film, TV, web, screenwriting. After the 1st LA Comedy Festival was so embraced by LA comedy lovers and comedy talent, we decided to absorb our beloved sketch comedy festival and have the LA Comedy Fest become a biannual event.

We have been delighted with our growth which has allowed us the ability to support comedic voices from around the world. Every festival we receive hundreds of short film submissions and have been struck by the enormous amount of films we receive that don’t necessarily fit into the genre of comedy, but are nonetheless great films that deserve an audience. Our next goal is to offer these films, as well as, more great comedy shorts, a home. With this as our next step, we are proud to launch our newest festival, the LA Best Shorts in July 2012. Submissions and details will be available in January 2012 at LABestShorts.com.

Here is our Future History:

2012 Festival Calendar:

• 11th LA Comedy Fest (April 19-22)
• 1st LA Best Shorts (July 12-15)
• 12th LA Comedy Fest (October 11-14)