The New York Comedy Festival, which was set to happen Nov. 9-15, has been postponed for a 12 months.
“Whereas we have been wanting ahead with nice enthusiasm to bringing the easiest comedy expertise and followers from across the nation and the world to New York Metropolis this fall, the circumstances offered by the pandemic will forestall us from doing so,” Caroline Hirsch, founder and proprietor of the New York Comedy Festival and Carolines on Broadway mentioned in a press launch on Tuesday.
Calling it an “extraordinarily tough resolution to make,” Hirsch mentioned it simply wouldn’t attainable to deliver the expertise and followers collectively in New York Metropolis safely throughout this time.
The pageant introduced it is going to now happen Nov. 8-14, 2021.
“It’s throughout occasions like these after we can all use a very good snicker,” Hirsch continued. “However, as they are saying in comedy, it’s all within the timing. So, as we press pause for now, we glance towards the longer term and can proceed to work diligently to assist deliver comedy again to its place as an important a part of New York Metropolis’s cultural panorama within the coming 12 months, and we’re already within the strategy of planning for 2021.
“We’re grateful in your continued assist and sit up for seeing you very quickly. In the mean time, please be secure.”
The annual pageant started in 2004, and in 2007 launched Stand Up for Heroes with the Bob Woodruff Basis to honor veterans and their households.
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