On Sunday, October 23 at 7:30pm EDT, join Philly Sketchfest for another virtual year of our annual Sketch Comedy Film Festival! Debuting live on Facebook Premiere, the fest will feature 2 blocks of sketch videos from some incredibly talented local and national sketch comedians. Our 2022 Festival will feature an assortment of fresh comedic voices…

Philly Sketchfest returns for a two-night celebration on October 21-22, 2022 with acts from Philadelphia, New York City, Toronto, Chicago, Virginia, Greensboro, Chicago, and Washington DC. Crossroads Comedy is this year’s presenting sponsor. Festival passes are available here. On Friday, October 21, we’ll be at The Playground at the Adrienne with three shows: 7pm: Crying…

Philly Sketchfest is so pleased to be partnering with our friends at Crossroads Comedy to present another edition of Sketch Buffet during the Fringe Festival! Friday night, September 24, at 10pm at Theatre Exile (1340 S 13th St). Tickets are available here, and the lineup and acts will be announced in the coming weeks.

This year’s Sketch Comedy Film Festival will once again be virtual, and it’s happening November 19, 2021! Submissions are now open for your funny shorts. More information and submission information can be found at filmfreeway.com/phillysketchfest. Deadline to submit is August 31, so you have time to create something amazing!

Our friends at Crossroads Comedy Theater asked one of our producers, Curt, to help curate a night of sketch comedy! And now it’s happening! July 16 at 9:30pm at Theatre Exile (1340 S 13th Street) Featuring: The Incredible Shrinking Matt and Jacquie Steve Swan vs Joe Moore Crying Alone in the Shower High Dramma Mean…

While we’re all still dealing with the pandemic world and all the cancellations of live events, we’re happy to announce the 2020 Sketch Comedy Film Festival is going virtual! Debuting live on Facebook Premiere, on Friday, November 20, at 8pm EST, this year’s Sketch Comedy Film Festival will showcase video sketches and short films from…

We thought there would be a chance theaters would be open in the fall. We thought travel would be possible. We hoped. But Philly Sketchfest 2020 isn’t meant to be, at least in the fullest incarnation. We look forward to hosting the Sketch Comedy Film Festival when movie theaters are open in Philadelphia, but live…

Hey everybody,  We just want to let everybody know that we’ve come to the difficult (but 100% necessary) decision to postpone Philly Sketchfest 2020 from its original June schedule to the Fall of this year. With all of the travel restrictions and other current projections, it’s become pretty clear that we wouldn’t be able to…

Philly Sketchfest is now selling all its legacy t-shirts to benefit the Philadelphia Performance Artists’ Emergency Fund, a fundraiser to benefit the performers without the stages during this Coronavirus crisis. $6 with free shipping for any of the shirts left in stock, and all the proceeds will go to the Emergency Fund! Head over to…