St. Petersburg is about to become the unlikely host of what might be the most ambitiously, outrageously stacked comedy festival Florida has ever seen, and somehow that sentence isn’t hyperbole.
Joke WRLD Fest, the very first event from the Joke WRLD comedy collective, rolls into Coastal Creative (2201 1st Ave S) on August 14 and 15, running from 1 pm to midnight on both days. That’s 22 combined hours of stand-up comedy, live podcast recordings, food trucks, cold drinks, and the kind of organized chaos that only happens when you pack 80-plus comedians into a single weekend and tell them to get to work.
And here’s the part that deserves a moment: one badge gets you everything. Not one badge for the main stage plus an extra wristband for the podcast sessions plus another fee for special shows. One badge. Full weekend access. All of it…