Just For Laughs and Muse Entertainment Form New Comedy Venture

MONTREAL, March 20: Just
For Laughs and Muse Entertainment Enterprises have teamed up for Just For
Laughs Muse Comedy Productions Inc., a new film and television company dedicated to producing scripted
comedies.

The new comedy venture’s
first project will be O’Cannabis,
a feature film set in an imagined Canada where marijuana is legalized, hookahs
compete with hockey as the national pastime and farmers who could once barely
make ends meet become the country’s richest and flashiest citizens.

In the past, Just For
Laughs and Muse Entertainment worked together on the production of The
Tournament for CBC and OLN in the
U.S., an acclaimed mockumentary series about an underdog Atom hockey team. The
series format is currently being developed in the U.S. for Warner Brothers
Television by Thomas Schlamme (Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, West Wing) and for the BBC in the U.K. by Sue Vertue (Coupling,
Men Behaving Badly).

Muse Entertainment has
produced a number of TV movies, television series and mini-series, as well as
feature films. The company is best known for its Gemini Award-winning Human
Trafficking mini-series, which
also garnered Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations. Muse is currently
producing The Deal, a feature
film that spoofs Hollywood, starring William H. Macy, Meg Ryan and LL Cool J;
and Too Young To Marry, a
modern Romeo and Juliet story for Lifetime Television and Granada
Entertainment.

Just For Laughs television
shows are seen in over 125 countries and on over 95 airlines around the world
on MTV, Showtime, HBO, BBC America, CBC, The Comedy Network and Fox in the U.S.
Its 25-year-old annual festival is the world's largest and most prestigious
comedy event, welcoming over 2 million people each summer. The Festival has
featured comics such as Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Chris
Rock, Ray Romano, Dane Cook and Tim Allen.