variety.com
05.11.2021 / 16:46
Bringing Back the Laughs: The New York Comedy Festival Returns Live
Nick Clement When Louis Faranda and his team started putting together the New York Comedy Festival after a year’s absence due to the pandemic, they knew it would be a lot of work — it always is. But this year, bringing together hundreds of comedians to make thousands of New Yorkers and visitors laugh was even more challenging than before.“Early on, many comedians didn’t want to commit because no one knew what November would bring in terms of the pandemic,” Faranda says.