EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the set times for the first-ever Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival, taking place downtown at L.A. Live this weekend.
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the set times for the first-ever Belly Laughs Comedy and Food Festival, taking place downtown at L.A. Live this weekend.
Presented by partners CAPE, Nederlander Concerts, L.A. Live, Gold House, and MAMA’s Nightmarket, the Belly Laughs festival is billed as a celebration of Asian-American culture that honors how they mix, influence, and inspire one another to create something entirely recent: a unique Third Culture. From July 12-13, attendees will be able to see 30 comedians and eat at 20+ food and beverage vendors curated by MAMA’s Nightmarket.
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Artists performing include Nimesh Patel, Jonnie Park (aka Dumbfoundead), Zarna Garg, Kumail Nanjiani, Joel Kim Booster, Margaret Cho, Bobby Lee, and Hasan Minhaj, to name just a few.
In a joint statement alongside CAPE volunteer and festival producer Viv Wang, CAPE’s CEO and Executive Director Michelle Sugihara explained of the fest’s origins, “We wanted to celebrate how the Asian American community not only contributes to our culture, but how the immigrant experience is in the DNA of the American story. We hope that everyone comes out this weekend for big laughs and great food in downtown Los Angeles so we can continue to write this next chapter together.”
Check out this weekend’s set times below.
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