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The 37th Just for Laughs festival featured nearly 400 indoor and outdoor shows and more than 1,300 performers from around the planet at close to 50 venues. The world’s largest comedy showcase — which wrapped Sunday after a 19-day run — provided many memorable moments and, mercifully, much-needed chuckles.

Curiously, though, the shows that appeared to receive the most attention from many followers of the fest included one that could hardly be classified as pure comedy and six that weren’t even on the JFL schedule.

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The former show, Margaret Trudeau’s Certain Woman of an Age, which played to three sold-out houses at the Gesù, was a compelling confessional, with moments of whimsy and more moments of staggering, painful emotion. Seinfeld this show wasn’t.

As for the six shows not on the official JFL schedule, they were secret pop-up events in venues holding less than 100 patrons, and their star was none other than Kevin Hart, in town to shoot the film Fatherhood. (Hart’s official JFL capacity had him interviewing comics like Anthony Anderson and Michael Che for his Laugh Out Loud Network.)