In 2011 Jimmy was on his Laughter Therapy tour and, for the first time, incorporated some of his own tour dates within the JFL window.

Just for Laughs Montreal 2011 ran from July 7^th to 30^th and this was Jimmy’s 7^th attendance.

July 22^nd to 30^th, Laughter Therapy

Jimmy performed at the Gesù / Le Gesu / The Gesu Theatre (delete according to preference) for 9 nights (July 22^nd to 30^th). Starting at 9.30pm each night, tickets were $32.50. He gets another Gazette Laughter Therapy write up here.

Jeff Ross was at this year’s JFL (and did a Nasty Show) but, at this point, hadn’t yet developed his friendship with Jimmy (on paper, so to speak) in that they were not yet working together on Comedy Roasts etc.

July 27-28^th, Russell Peters: Best Night Ever

These gala shows, hosted by Rusell Peters, were filmed at Salle Wilfrid Pelletier (clip of Jimmy’s routine, below). There were actually 4 gala performances (Wed & Thurs at 7pm and 10pm) and it’s a bit muddied as to who appeared on which bill together.

As one article said Jimmy was on the “3^rd gig” and, as he had to perform at Le Gesu at 9.30pm, I’m assuming he was on the Thursday (28^th) 7pm show.

• Jimmy Carr
• Sebastian Maniscalco
• Nick Thune
• Dom Irrera
• Jeremy Hotz

Peter is from Toronto and the Gazette did a write up on him here and Pursuit has a gala write up.

July 30^th, Green Room with Paul Provenza

On the 30^th the Mainline Theatre was used to film The Green Room with Paul Provenza (for Showtime channel). Guests were:

• Jimmy Carr
• Judah Friedlander
• Chris Hardwick
• Eddie Izzard
• Tim Minchin

Read more on my earlier post, here.

Finally…

Other big names at this year’s festival included:

• Hannibal Buress
• Maria Bamford
• Jay Oakerson
• Jeremy Hotz
• Danny Bhoy
• Daniel Tosh
• Robert Kelly
• Debra DiGiovanni
• Alonzo Bodden
• Jimmy Tingle
• Marc Maron
• Greg Proops
• Colin Quinn
• Thea Vidale
• Ari Shaffer
• Anthony Jeselnik
• Mike Ward
• Mark Little
• Dan Mintz
• Ryan Belleville
• Russell Howard

As the festival wrapped up for its 29^th year – the Montreal Gazette crunched the numbers and pondered the highlights.