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SPORTS: After a four-day stint in Baltimore, the Toronto Blue Jays return tonight for their first home game in two weeks. The Jays take on the Seattle Mariners tonight. The Mariners are in last place in the West Division, and the Jays are in second-last place in the East Division! This is shaping up to be an exciting series. Rogers Centre (1 Blue Jay Way), 7:07 p.m., $9-$57.

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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.

Photo of Montreal's Just For Laughs festival by CG Photos from Flickr.

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.

The joke goes: "The women in Montreal are so beautiful. Where do you send all the ugly women? To Toronto?"

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.

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.