Each week, Torontoist examines the upcoming TV listings and makes note of programs that are entertaining, informative, and of quality. Or, alternately, none of those. The result: Televisualist.......

Every weekday, we pick an image from the Torontoist Flickr Pool and feature it here on the site. It's our way to give the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention they deserve! You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose—unless you were at the 25th (and Toronto's first) Just For Laughs festival, which took over Toronto this weekend. The three-day event saw performances......

This weekend, Yonge Street is bustling with all things wacky as the first annual Toronto Just For Laughs festival takes over the city. The street festival kicked off last night with a free Russell Peters show with guests Jo Koy and the Doo Wops. Dundas Square was packed with more than 15,000 people eager to be entertained by the comics, and they definitely were not disappointed. After the show the crowd stuck around to......

Photo of Montreal's Just For Laughs festival by CG Photos from Flickr. Every year for the past quarter-century, the Just For Laughs festival has transformed the streets of Montreal into a massive comedic carnival. This year, it's Toronto's turn to join in the fun, as the first ever Just For Laughs Toronto hits the 416 this weekend. Whether you've got cash to spend or are broke as a joke, whether you like making fun......

The headline doesn't lie, folks. The self-professed "angriest man in America" and The Daily Show regular Lewis Black will be wagging his infamous finger in Toronto as a part of the first annual Just For Laughs Toronto Festival. Black is taking the place of George Lopez, who was originally slated to host the July 27th Gala at Massey Hall. Because of scheduling conflicts, Lopez had to back out of the event. Alongside Black, the......

The joke goes: "The women in Montreal are so beautiful. Where do you send all the ugly women? To Toronto?" In the Hot Docs smash movie Let's All Hate Toronto, Brampton comedian Russell Peters tells the joke as evidence towards the animosity Canadians have for Toronto. Rob Spence and Albert Nerenberg, the directors of Let's All Hate Toronto were offended as well. They brought forth a petition to the Just for Laughs comedy festival to......

Hogtown is about to become hilarious. Just For Laughs, one of the world's biggest comedy festivals, is coming to Toronto as part of its 25th anniversary celebration. The city has put up $400,000 to bring about Toronto's first annual Just for Laughs festival. If you're thinking that it will be just like the Montreal version of the fest, think again. The organizers recognize that Toronto is a different city and are playing up on our......

Overheard on the 211 bus, Montreal, highway 20, direction Ouest. Sandy-haired teen: At the last Just For Laughs, this comic told this joke. He said:      "I travel in America and people ask me, 'what's the story with Toronto and Montreal?' So I tell them, it's like you have two brothers. One is an accountant. The other is a womanizing alcoholic."      And before he gets to the end of the sentence, the crowd starts cheering,......

Those who fear that the execrable comedy stylings of Mike Bullard constitute Canada's only (living) contribution to the world of portly funnymen can take heart in the growing popularity of one Mr. Sean Cullen. Having under his long belt and his Gleasonesque pork-pie hat both a very odd, six-episode CBC miniseries and a stint as Max Bialystock in the TO production of The Producers, Cullen's been attending lately to the sorts of tasks that......