LOL Sudbury Comedy Festival, a pilot project of Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival, is hosting the first-ever broadcast of a live comedy show, in partnership with Cineplex Entertainment.
The sold-out live show, taking place tonight (Thursday) at 9 p.m. at Laurentian University's Fraser Auditorium, will be captured in High Definition, crunched into many billions of mega-pixels, and beamed via satellite into over 60 Cineplex locations across Canada simultaneously, including right here in Sudbury.
Hosting this event is one of the best television sidekicks of
all time - six-time Emmy and four-time Golden Globe nominee for
portraying the persona of Seinfeld's George Castanza -
'yadda, yadda, yadda' - the one and only Jason
Alexander. He will be joined by Sabrina Jalees (leading role
Much Music's Video on Trial), Canadian comedy circuit
mainstay Winston Spear, and one of England's big comedy
exports, John Moloney.
Also on Thursday night, Laugh Out Loud NOW (Northern Ontario Wit) will be showcasing Brendan McKeigan (Sudbury), Mike Takacs (Thunder Bay) and Rick Lemieux (Timmins). LOL NOW is slated to start at 10 p.m. at S.R.O. Lounge on Durham Street downtown.
Male and female comics face-off in the Battle of the Sexes with Mike Bullard, Carrie Gaetz, Kate Davis, Erica Sigurdson, Simon Cotter and Dave Hemsted on Friday, May 30 at 7 p.m. at Fraser Auditorium. 
Catch the Imponderables - Dave, Eric, Jon, and Tony - winners of the 2005 Canadian Comedy Award for Best Sketch Troupe, at 9:45 p.m. Friday at Fraser Auditorium, hosted by Winston Spear.
On Saturday, Comedy of Cultures returns to the Sudbury
Theatre Centre. Hosted by Perry Perlmutar, the show features
Sabrina Jalees, Cris Nannarone, Billy Bob Joe Taylor and John
Maloney at 7 p.m.
 
Baby Boomers is a fun-filled, laugh-packed romp back to the
time when bread was money, poodles were skirts and father knew
best. Scott Harris and Simon B. Cotter will be entertaining at
9:30 p.m., Saturday at Fraser Auditorium.
LOL will launch a French component to the festival this year, Mourir de rire, hosted by Derek Seguin, featuring Mike Ward and Paul Wildbaum, performing on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. at the Sudbury Theatre Centre.
To close off the weekend, LOL All Stars will feature a wide range of festival favourites hosted by Mike Bullard, featuring Winston Spear, Erica Sigudson, Paul Wildbaum and Scott Harris at the Sudbury Theatre Centre, Sunday at 9 p.m.
For a complete calendar and ticket information visit www.lol.sudbury.com or www.cineplex.com or call 688-1234.
Watch www.NorthernLife.ca for a video update of a meet and greet with Jason Alexander.
