TRAVERSE CITY (AP) --  A northern Michigan comedy festival co-founded by filmmaker Michael Moore is being called off next year because organizers didn't want a beer festival to crowd their laughs.

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports Friday that the Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival won't take place in February because the Traverse City Winter Microbrew & Music Festival sought to share the same weekend.

Moore says beer festival attendees last February interrupted comedy festival shows. The comedy festival could return in 2013.

Sam Porter, who runs the microbrew event, says his scheduling options were limited.

Moore is a Flint native who started the comedy festival in 2010 with comedian Jeff Garlin. Moore also started a popular summer film festival in Traverse City, a Lake Michigan resort community about 250 miles northwest of Detroit.

(Copyright ©2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)