Live From Just For Laughs: The Defamer Kathy Griffin Interview

Lured as much by its illustrious roster of Hollywood comedy power-players as we were by Quebec’s notoriously lax champagne-room laws and the promise of a poutine stand on every corner, Defamer dispatched editor Seth Abramovitch to Montreal to take in a few days of the 2008 Just For Laughs Festival. Now a quarter-century old, Just For Laughs has grown into the largest comedy festival—two weeks of stand-up, sketch comedy, movie screenings, and street performances. Tonight we’ll be front and centre for the much-hyped Apatow For Destruction, billed as “a unique night of stand-up comedy as writer/director/producer Judd Apatow assembles a veritable all-star team with one of Canada’s biggest exports, Seth Rogen, Craig Robinson, Russell Brand and a line-up of some of the most buzzed about film and TV stars in comedy.”