Editing Just for Laughs (section)

=== 2024 cancellation and uncertain future ===
[[File:ComediHa! salue Montréal - Scène Vidéotron, July 18, 2024.jpg|thumb|right|The stage set up for ''ComediHa! salue Montréal'', including Just for Laughs-branded events, at the Place des Festivals in 2024]]
On March 5, 2024, it was announced the 2024 edition of the Just for Laughs festival had been canceled as Groupe Juste pour rire tried to avoid bankruptcy.<ref name=":2" /> The organizers attributed lost revenues during the COVID-19 pandemic, streaming services, and reduced budgets at networks to the company's collapse. A month later, it was exposed that the company was $22.5 million in debt, with an additional $3.4 million on top of that owed to various creditors. It was also revealed the festival lost $800,000 in an email phishing scheme in 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dal.ca/news/2024/04/19/just-for-laughs-canada-support.html | title=After Just for Laughs' bankruptcy, we should ask Canadian comedians what they need to succeed | access-date=2024-05-14 | archive-date=2024-05-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514042643/https://www.dal.ca/news/2024/04/19/just-for-laughs-canada-support.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

In May, Just for Laughs announced that it was selling some of its assets to ComediHa!, a company which organizes similar comedy festivals in other Quebec cities.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/just-for-laughs-comediha-1.7218819 "Entertainment firm ComediHa! to take over some Just for Laughs assets"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531194237/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/just-for-laughs-comediha-1.7218819 |date=2024-05-31 }}. [[CBC News]], May 29, 2024.</ref> In an interview in July, ComediaHa!'s CEO, Sylvain Parent-Bédard, reported that the company plans to keep the Just For Laughs and Juste Pour Rire brands for the festivals, and use the ComediHa! brand for musicals, theatre, TV, and scripted shows.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-07-13 |title=Funny business: How the new owner of Just For Laughs plans to revive a comedy powerhouse |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-funny-business-how-the-new-owner-of-just-for-laughs-plans-to-revive-a/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA |archive-date=2024-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715015221/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-funny-business-how-the-new-owner-of-just-for-laughs-plans-to-revive-a/ |url-status=live }}</ref>