The New Yorker Festival has seriously upped its cool factor for 2016. This year’s highbrow pop culture celebration features sessions with David Letterman, Louis C.K., folk rock god Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman), musician Andrew Bird, Daniel Craig, comedian Sarah Silverman, writer/actress Tavi Gevinson, Jonah Hill, and many more. The festivities go down October 7-9 at various venues around New York City, and consist of panels, talks, sneak preview screenings, performances, tours, and a staged reading. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 9 at 12pm ET.

If you’re a fan of film or television, you’ll be wishing the fest had some sort of DVR function, because there are several occasions where you’ll be wanting to be in two places at once. On Friday night, you’ll need to choose between attending an interview with writer/director Whit Stillman and Richard Brody, and seeing Daniel Craig and writer Nicholas Schmidle discuss what it’s like to be offered $150 million to continue playing James Bond. Come Saturday evening, talks with Jonah Hill, Jeremy Irons, and Jay and Mark Duplass go head-to-head. They are followed up by a late night chat between Mr. Robot’s creator Sam Esmail, and co-star Christian Slater. Sunday, you’ll have actor John Goodman, writer/actress Tavi Gevinson, and filmmaker Paul Feig to contend with. Also on the weekend’s docket is a conversation with James Gray, whose film The Lost City of Z is closing this year’s New York Film Festival, and special sneak preview screenings of Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion, Christine Chubbuck drama Christine, and Loving.

Comedy and music also command starring roles at this year’s event. In addition to talks with David Letterman, Louis C.K., and Sarah Silverman, Key & Peele co-star Keegan-Michael Key and comedian Nick Kroll are also featured players. Further, a panel on mental health and TV comedy brings together the creative folks behind such shows as BoJack Horseman, You’re the Worst, Weeds, and Orange is the New Black. In the music department, Father John Misty, Andrew Bird, and Jason Isbell are all slated to discuss their work and perform.

Seeing as it’s an election year, the New Yorker Festival is also serving up some politically charged programming. New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin will be doing a talk on the Supreme Court in the Post-Obama Era, and there are panels planned on Trump, gun control, and Obama and the racial divide.

This year’s New Yorker Festival also hosts a number of free ticketed events. These include exclusive screenings of Epix’s Graves, America Divided and Berlin Station, and a food panel on destination dining with Bon Appétit deputy editor Andrew Knowlton, Condé Nast Traveler executive editor Candice Rainey, and Mario Batali.

Tickets for the New Yorker’s enlightening weekend affair go on sale to the general public on Friday, September 9 at 12pm ET. Those that possess a MasterCard can get in on an advance ticket sale that begins here Thursday, September 8 at 11am ET. For a complete list of “what’s going on about town” at the 17th Annual New Yorker Festival, visit http://festival.newyorker.com/events/.