Every Thursday - Saturday, 8:30pm

Comedy Republic's signature lineup show!

Main Stage has quickly become our biggest show, selling out on the regular with huge all-star lineups and lively fun-loving crowds. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, you can be sure to catch a heap of the best comedians Melbourne and the wider world have to offer.

- - - MAIN STAGE FORMAT - - -

Main Stage (120min show, 5+ comedians, inc interval)
Thursday 8:30pm - $26
Friday 8:30pm - $29
Saturday 8:30pm - $36

- - - UPCOMING LINEUPS - - -

THURSDAY 9 MAY Ben Russell, Mish Wittrup, Rowan Thambar, Prue Blake, Aurelia St Clair & Nick Quon

FRIDAY 10 MAY Ben Russell, Stu Daulman, Rowan Thambar, Prue Blake, Aurelia St Clair & Donna Collins

SATURDAY 11 MAY Ben Russell, Alex Ward, Mish Wittrup, Rowan Thambar, Prue Blake & Nick Quon

THURSDAY 16 MAY Tim Hewitt, Sonia Di Iorio, Sean Diao, Carmelo Costa, Rose Bishop & secret guest

FRIDAY 10 MAY Tim Hewitt, Sonia Di Iorio, Sean Diao, Carmelo Costa, Rose Bishop & secret guest

SATURDAY 11 MAY Tim Hewitt, Sonia Di Iorio, Sean Diao, Carmelo Costa, Rose Bishop & secret guest

Coming up in May: Sean Diao, Ray O'Leary, Con Coutis, Nick Schuller, Urvi Majumdar, Takashi Wakasugi, Kirsty Webeck, Luka Muller, Maddy Weeks & more

(Lineups are subject to last minute changes)

Every Tuesday, 7:30pm

New comedians doing their best, and the best comedians doing their new.

Get the crew together for cheap tickets, cheap drinks, cheap laughs. What’s not to love!

TUESDAY 14 MAY Tim Hewitt, Donna Collins, Timothy Knight, Chelsea Heaney & more

Wednesday 1-29 May, 7:30pm

Remember school? Learning new things with mates every day?

Imagine that again - minus the exams, detentions and raging hormones in the way.

Introducing Sashi Perera’s Night School! A weekly learning utopia featuring an hour of lessons from Melbourne’s best comics and (some) actual experts.

If you’re tired of new knowledge limited to internet videos on a 3am scroll spiral in the dark - come along for lots of laughs, a little learning and absolutely no qualifications.

17 & 18 May, 7:00pm

When starting out in standup at the age of 19, Sammy Petersen was asked to write a book from a well known publisher titled ‘Why The Long Face: the story of a boy who tried to make people laugh when he can't even smile himself.’

This was not his idea and he never did it but, after over a decade, he can’t stop thinking about it.

This is a debut solo show from the host of ‘Confessions’ about self-worth, heartbreak and if he does in fact look a little bit like a horse.

“A great storyteller and the most comedy adjacent person I’ve ever met.” Wil Anderson  

Wednesday 5-26 June, 6:30pm

Something Good is Melbourne's best improv show, starring cast and crew from Ch 10’s television improv juggernaut 'Thank God You’re Here' Ben Russell, Amy Ruffle, Lena Moon and Alistair Baldwin.

It’s long form improv at its finest, with famous faces dropping by each week for a completely improvised and always chaotic performance.

Based off audience suggestion, Something Good makes up a show that is something great and something that will never be seen again. Past guests include Tony Martin, Adam Hills, Virginia Gay and Broden Kelly.

First Monday Of Every Month, 7:30pm

Monthly drag bingo with your favourite nans.

Edith Vale, Maureen McGillicuddy and Caroline Springs have been hosting their sold out Granny Bingo night for 5 years. The pandemic almost took them out, but never fear; Caroline doesn't think it's real, so we're back live in the Comedy Republic bar!

And yes, you will actually play bingo! Nanna kisses xx

More events: Granny Bingo is on the first Monday of every month.

Saturday 29 June, 6:30pm

Nominee – The Melbourne Comedy Festival Award 2023

Tom Ballard is undeniably one of Australia’s comedians. That simply cannot be denied.

Join Tom for an encore performance of his Melbourne Comedy Festival show ‘Good Point Well Made’, featuring electric zingers and incredible points being made with expert precision. It’ll make you laugh and cry and laugh and think and laugh again, then it’ll make you gasp and laugh and feel alive and laugh and ponder things and laugh some more.

On top of all that, Tom appeared as lovable sweetheart/terrible cop Constable Sven Alderman in the hit Prime Video series Deadloch, cohosted his weekly political podcast Serious Danger, and began the process of cooking up even fresher and gooder jokes about everything that’s going on with the world, etc.

Winner – Best Comedy Performer, Helpmann Award 2016
Winner – Best Local Show, Sydney Comedy Festival 2017