The Canberra Comedy Festival 2019. March 18 to 24. Various venues. Adults only except where indicated. canberracomedyfestival.com.au.

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With everything that goes on here, Canberrans need to laugh. And more than 60 comedy acts are soon coming to help people in the ACT do just that.

This year's Canberra Comedy Festival is the seventh, its associate director James Stevenson says. It's now a well-established event in the ACT and Stevenson believes this is, in part, because Canberrans are sick of being passed over when big names and international acts tour Australia.

Each year, he says, the festival books Australian and international acts that are touring the comedy circuit and brings them to the nation's capital. Canberra comedians also perform.