{"id":605592,"date":"2026-04-15T11:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605592\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:57:11","slug":"just-for-laughs-montreal-welcomes-jerry-seinfeld-weird-al-yankovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/605592\/","title":{"rendered":"Just For Laughs Montreal welcomes Jerry Seinfeld, &#8216;Weird Al&#8217; Yankovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Comedy stalwarts \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic and Jerry Seinfeld are set to headline this year\u2019s edition of Just For Laughs Montreal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Yankovic, best known for parody hits including Like a Surgeon and White &amp; Nerdy, is expected to bring his Bigger &amp; Weirder Tour to the festival on July 25, while Seinfeld, best known for Seinfeld, is due to perform on July 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other acts heading to Montreal include Zoltan Kaszas, Jacqueline Novak, who promises to debut an all-new show at the festival, and Smosh Reads Reddit Stories LIVE! in which Shayne Topp and friends offer commentary on stories posted to Reddit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Organizers say the festival will also include galas hosted by comedians Gabriel \u201cFluffy\u201d Iglesias, Mike Birbiglia, Atsuko Okatsuka and Gerry Dee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Each of the performances will feature multiple comedians at different stages in their careers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tickets for the festival, which runs from July 15 to 26, go on sale to the public on April 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 14, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comedy stalwarts \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic and Jerry Seinfeld are set to headline this year\u2019s edition of Just For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[76,49,48,75,2338],"class_list":["post-605592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-arts","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}