Comedy Festival Guide
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Morges, Vaud, Switzerland

Morges-sous-Rire Festival 2027

5–12 June 2027

Room: Théâtre de Beausobre.

Morges-sous-Rire has staged francophone comedy in Morges every year since 1989, drawing some fifteen thousand people from across Romandie to a week of shows in and around the Théâtre de Beausobre. Its shows play three stages: Le Théâtre, with 850 seats, Le CUBE, with 150, and La Paille, an open-air ring of straw bales on the football pitch seating 300. Concerts, food trucks, bars and a craft market, all free to enter, fill the esplanade, and the 2026 edition counted more than thirty shows and 45 artists.

You book on morges-sous-rire.ch, the festival's own site. The Guide sells no tickets.

Tickets ↗You book on morges-sous-rire.ch. The Guide sells no tickets.

The 2027 festival

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The Morges-sous-Rire Festival 2027 runs 8 days, from Saturday 5 June 2027 to Saturday 12 June 2027, in Morges, Switzerland. On its stages: stand-up. Tickets, times and the full programme are on the festival's own site. Comedy festivals in 2027, month by month.

Its story

Its Scène Ouverte contest gives new comedians ten minutes each before a jury and the audience. The 12th, in 2026, was won by Nina Cachelin, who goes on to represent the country at francophone comedy festivals abroad, while Marion Agoston took the audience prize. The next year, each year's contestants tour Romandie together in La Tournée.

Where the shows are

Tickets

Tickets are sold in the festival's online shop, by phone on +41 21 804 97 16, at the Théâtre de Beausobre's box office, at Av. de Vertou 2, from 9am to noon and 2pm to 5pm, and at Morges Région Tourisme. Amine Radi on 11 June 2027 costs CHF 59, and Jeanfi Janssens on 12 June costs CHF 54. The box office opens an hour before each show, and tickets are neither refunded nor exchanged.

For comedians: submissions

Not announced No call for acts for the 2027 festival on the festival's own site yet.

How it takes acts
A contest: comedians enter and compete
As of
31 October 2026

Deadlines and fees change: the festival's own page has the last word. Every festival open for submissions

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Questions

When is the Morges-sous-Rire Festival 2027?

5–12 June 2027 in Morges, Switzerland.

Where does the Morges-sous-Rire Festival happen?

Théâtre de Beausobre, Av. de Vertou 2, 1110 Morges.

Where do I book for the Morges-sous-Rire Festival?

On the festival's own site, morges-sous-rire.ch, which also has the latest programme and any changes.

Who runs the Morges-sous-Rire Festival?

Festival Morges-sous-Rire.

How much are tickets for the Morges-sous-Rire Festival?

CHF 54 to CHF 59 for the 2027 festival, as its own site gave them on 31 October 2026. Prices change; the festival's site has the last word.

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