We can always use a good laugh, but in an era that resembles Orwell's 1984, who's providing the new comic voices to help nudge us back towards sanity? Just For Laughs, the world's biggest comedy festival, is an immense bilingual celebration of everything silly, diverting and sometimes politically pertinent, and it's occurring right now in the capital of Canada's contradictions, Montreal. And in the province where a sign in English can get you hauled into court, U.S. culture determines who's going to be a star and who's more likely to remain a never-was.... Read more