Quick Dish LA: Hollywood Welcomes First-Ever PackFest for Labor Day Weekend 2024

The Pack Theater, located in the Heart of Hollywood’s Theater District in LA, California, is proud to announce programming for the inaugural PACK HOLLYWOOD COMEDY FESTIVAL taking place August 29 – September 1, 2024 at The Broadwater Black Box. PackFest will showcase the best sketches, stand-up, clown, comedy podcasts, short films, character bits, and more with over 60 acts from across North America.

Headliners will include 90s icon Jodie Sweetin of Full (and FullerHouse fame hosting Family Dinner With Jodie Sweetin; stand-up comedian, actress, podcaster, nurse and Pan African Film Festival finalist Taquita Love with Taquita and Friendsclown about town Chad Damiani; and the aptly-described Thee Improvised Musical.

Notable PackFest acts include writer, actor, and The Second City alum Seth K. Thomas’ Anti-Thematic, “The Oprah of comedy” Colette Gregory’s Black Best Friend and Bosses in Bonnets, Colorado Queer Comedy Festival founder & standup Ren Q Dawe, and Lady Business, Sacramento’s longest-running all-female improv troupe. 

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Pack Theater also welcomes several homegrown favorites, including the habitually viral Tik Tokers Party Line, beloved shameless weirdos KissyFace, possibly-over-caffeinated Angel Kitty Idiots, notorious butt-lover Sarah Lento, and the newly-iconic sketch troupe Ciao.

Also featured is the chaotic comedy gameshow SPY Games, which pits four comedians against each other in a wild game of wit and will, multiple SketchFest and sold-out show headliners Public Breakup, standup from writer/ director and film producer Niki Sterner, and JJ and Ella’s Super Cool Eurovision Variety Show which is just as super cool and European as the name implies. 

Come be a part of the inaugural event! Showcase tickets and festival passes are available below.

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