Etiket: Laughs
Major email fraud | Just for Laughs finally gets some money
A year after being robbed of nearly $814,000 last year following a classic email fraud, Just for Laughs Group (JPR) is finally starting to get its money back – a…
What would Gabriel Attal think?”, laughs semiologist François Jost
Published on 04/26/2024 5:16 p.m. Update on 04/26/2024 5:17 p.m. Video length: 1 min Secret Story: “What would Attal think?” Sociologist and image theorist François Jost questions the immorality of…
Just for Laughs debacle | “I couldn’t imagine a disaster like this”
It is “unimaginable” that giants with “almost unlimited financial resources” like Bell and evenko could have allowed the Just for Laughs Group (JPR) to sink, believes its founder and former…
Safe from creditors and for sale | The other stones from Just for Laughs
There was inflation, difficulties in the media industry and the drop in sponsorships, but other elements were throwing sand into the gears at Just for Laughs. The company’s relationship with…
Just for Laughs Victim of Email Fraud
Just for Laughs suffered a classic email fraud at a very bad time, before racking up millions in losses and sheltering itself from its creditors. From February to April 2023,…
Just for Laughs auction | Things are happening behind the scenes
The next few weeks promise to be decisive for Groupe Juste pour laughs (JPR), still under the protection of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. The initial offers to buy the…
Just for Laughs auction | Things are happening behind the scenes
The next few weeks promise to be decisive for Groupe Juste pour laughs (JPR), still under the protection of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. The initial offers to buy the…
Laughs | Which makes some people laugh…
A strange thing, laughter. What makes some people laugh can bore or frankly put off others. It is around this concept that Daniel Brière and Alexis Martin decided to base…
After-Just for Laughs | How Neev and his team saved his tour
A few weeks before the presentation of his media premiere, which will indeed be held this Tuesday evening at the Olympia in Montreal, Neev learned that his producer, the Just…
Just for Laughs Group | As soon as bought, (almost) as soon as in danger
The owners’ debt acquisition in 2018 quickly backfired Published at 12:55 a.m. Updated at 5:00 a.m. The three owners of Just for Laughs Group (JPR) were quickly haunted by their…
25th Les Olivier gala | The end of Just for Laughs will not be the end of laughter
On the eve of the 25the Les Olivier Gala, The Press brought together three of its most famous comedians – Suzie Bouchard, Arnaud Soly and Simon Gouache – in order…
“We had a good laugh in front of the TV,” laughs a drug trafficker in prison
Published on 03/20/2024 08:53 Update on 03/20/2024 08:53 Reading time: 3 min Emmanuel Macron on March 19, 2024 on a surprise visit to Marseille. (CHRISTOPHE ENA / POOL) Sentenced to…
A series of costly choices may have contributed to Just for Laughs’ debt
A report filed in the Superior Court of Quebec details the reasons for the financial difficulties which pushed the parent company of the Just for Laughs comedy festivals to cancel…
Safe from creditors | The Just for Laughs Group subscribes to deficits
The Just for Laughs Group (JPR) has accumulated losses of around 12 million since Bell, the CH Group and an American agency became owners five years ago. Insolvent, the Quebec…
Safe from creditors | The Just for Laughs Group subscribes to deficits
The Just for Laughs Group (JPR) has accumulated losses of around 12 million since Bell, the CH Group and an American agency became owners five years ago. Insolvent, the Quebec…
Just for laughs: the musical “Waitress” may be sold
The Superior Court authorized the rapid sale of the musical on Friday Waitress, produced by Just for Laughs, which would ensure the show could take place this summer in Montreal…
ComediHa! saves productions of Just for Laughs
Musical comedy Waitresswhose production seemed threatened by the bankruptcy of the Just for Laughs Group, will finally be presented as planned this summer. The ComediHa team! de la Capitale-Nationale announced…
Just for Laughs Insolvent | The 2023 edition in deficit despite millionaire subsidies
The Just for Laughs Group (JPR) lost millions of dollars last year by presenting a comedy festival in London as well as its big summer event in the metropolis even…
Just for Laughs Insolvent | A final loss-making edition despite millionaire subsidies
The Just for Laughs Group (JPR) lost millions of dollars last year by presenting a comedy festival in London as well as its big summer event in the metropolis even…
Creditor of Just for Laughs, Duceppe does not intend to laugh
Several Just for Laughs (JPR) creditors are convinced that they will never see the color of their money again, which is now forcing them to consider difficult choices. This is…