The Comedy Festival, formerly known as the US Comedy Arts Festival,[5] was a
comedyfestival that ran from 1995[6][7] to 2008.[8] The festival included
stand-up comedy performances, appearances by the casts of
television shows, and has a film component[9] called the Film Discovery Program.[10][11]
The Aspen event folded in 2007 once HBO exited the festival business, considering the expenditures too high.[8] American comedian
Chris Fleming performed at the 2007 event.[14] He was taken into custody by Federal Authorities following his performance.[source?]
TBS picked up the Las Vegas event in 2008, and organized a follow-up edition that year, also arranging for other comedy festivals in collaboration with
Just For Laughs.[15] In turn, Aspen replaced the festival with similar events, the
Aspen RooftopComedy Festival and the Aspen Laff Festival.[16][17][18][19]
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"Live From Aspen". Variety. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
^"The Comedy Festival - About". The Comedy Festival. Archived from
the original on 2006-10-20. Retrieved 2017-07-26. HBO and AEG Live will team up once again to make Las Vegas 'the home of funny' when the second annual edition of The Comedy Festival is presented Nov. 14-18, 2006.