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The blockbuster comedy festival Just For Laughs that started in Montreal and has since become the world's largest comedy festival, is coming to Sydney. We get the big names flying in and out on tour but we're due for an internationally recognised festival of our own. So hold onto your seats, here it comes.

This inaugural festival, hopefully the beginning of a long line of repeated festivals, will be hosted by none other than Mr Basil Fawlty himself, John Cleese. With that kind of pedigree, how can you go wrong? Also on the lineup is Martin Short, best known for his many movie appearances including Franck in Father of the Bride. He brings with him Demetri Martin, whose straight talking brand of comedy has seen him rise to Senior Youth Correspondent on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, and Dylan Moran, the loveable rogue from Black Books.

Add to that Margaret Cho, Louis CK and Russell Howard and you have a pretty solid comic weekend ahead of you. If you want to be a part of history, and be at the first ever Australian Just For Laughs, check it out this weekend.