Just for Laughs owes money to comedians, companies: court documents

Paperwork made population through an insolvency trustee display Montreal comedy competition Just for Laughs and affiliated corporations owe tens of millions of bucks in unpaid money owed past what was once integrated in a court docket submitting latter day.

Groupe Juste pour rire inc., the mum or dad corporate of the competition and several other alternative comedy-related companies, introduced previous this day that it’s bancrupt and looking for creditor coverage.

Paperwork exempt this day through insolvency trustee PwC, previously referred to as PricewaterhouseCoopers, display an supplementary $5 million in unpaid money owed owed through the competition and alternative affiliated companies.

That cash is along with the $22.5 million owed through some of the corporations within the crew, disclosed in paperwork filed on the Montreal courthouse latter day.

Integrated within the $5 million of newly disclosed money owed is $3.4 million owed through the comedy competition, whose collectors come with inns, venues and manufacturing corporations.

As smartly, Only for Laughs and some other affiliated competition, ZooFest, owe greater than $78,000 to a Montreal comfort bind.

A number of the collectors named within the paperwork not too long ago made population are:

• Greater than 4 batch tv stations, in addition to radio stations and newspapers throughout Canada, which might be owed greater than $100,000.
• Comic Mike Ward is owed $301; singer Ginette Reno is owed $2,000.
• Fat Yellow Taxi Productions, which has produced Australian Only for Laughs tv systems shot in Montreal and Australia, is owed greater than $200,000.
• Comfort bind Depanneur L’distinctive is owed $78,355.
• Comedy Provides Again, a non-profit that is helping comedians in want, is owed $8,886.
• The most important creditor named within the untouched eager of paperwork is Cartier Communique Advertising Inc., a Montreal promoting corporate, which is owed $720,347.
• Alternative collectors come with Australian comic Jim Jefferies and Montreal’s ambulance provider, Urgences-santé.