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 20 January: Claire Hooper, Takashi Wakasugi, Daniel Connell, Tor Snyder, Meg Jäger, Ben Hunter & Kelsey De Almeida

TUESDAY 27 January: Ray O'Leary, Alex Keen, Bahaa Dabbagh, Sean Collier, Yeluselemi Diakanua, Ciara Murphy, Thalia Joan & Secret Surprise Guest

(Lineups are subject to last minute changes)

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Every Wednesday, 8:00pm

Melbourne's best improv show, starring cast and crew from Ch 10’s television improv juggernaut 'Thank God You’re Here' plus a different special guest every week.

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 Aaron Chen, Andy Lee, Broden Kelly, Glenn Robbins, Anne Edmonds, Bajo, Wil Anderson, Guy Montgomery, Rhys Nicholson, Tom Cashman, Charlie Pickering, Nina Oyama, Zachary Ruane and way way more.

Each week our special guests are joined by a rotating casat of Melbourne's best improvisers: Amy Ruffle, Ben Russell, Lena Moon, Alistair Baldwin, Pedro Cooray, Tiana Hogben, Taylor Griffiths, Millie Holten, Tim Hewitt, Kyran Nicholson, Josh Chodziesner and Barney Pollock.

UPCOMING SPECIAL GUESTS:

Wednesday 14 January David Correos

Wednesday 21 January TBA

Wednesday 28 January Con Coutis

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8:00pm

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.

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Main Stage (90min show, 5+ comedians, inc interval)
Thursday 8:00pm - $29
Friday 8:00pm - $34
Saturday 8:00pm - $39

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THURSDAY 15 JANUARY Kirsty Webeck, Dan Rath, Stu Daulman, David Correos, Janty Blair & Angus Gordon

FRIDAY 16 JANUARY Celia Pacquola, Kirsty Webeck, Dan Rath, Stu Daulman, David Correos & Angus Gordon

SATURDAY 17 JANUARY Kirsty Webeck, Dan Rath, Stu Daulman, David Correos, Janty Blair & Angus Gordon

THURSDAY 22 JANUARY Lloyd Langford, Claire Hooper, Ben Searle, Con Coutis, Maren May & Carmelo Costa

FRIDAY 23 JANUARY Claire Hooper, Ben Searle, Con Coutis, Maren May & Carmelo Costa

SATURDAY 24 JANUARY Claire Hooper, Ben Searle, Con Coutis, Maren May & Carmelo Costa

(Lineups are subject to last minute changes)

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Friday 23 January, 6:30pm

The new show by award winning Japanese comedian and your favourite 'Waka'.

Wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness.

Waka believes the concept of Wabi-sabi is the great way to make people happy. And he also thinks it might connect and adapt to his comedy. In this show you will find laughs and happiness with his Wabi-sabi comedy.
Arigato! Big bow.

As seen on The Gala, Thank God You're Here, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee and Taskmaster Australia.

*WINNER* Director's Choice Award, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023
*Nominee* Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024

“Exquisite stand-up” ★★★★ Chortle UK  

“Abundant pleasure... It's a genuine joy to be insulted by him” ★★★★ The Scotsman  

Thursday 29 January, 6:00pm

Danny Bhoy is about to embark on a regional tour of his smash hit show ‘Dear World…’

This is a chance to see a warm-up of the show which was a complete sell-out at the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival!

This is a 75-minute show with no interval. Limited 4 tickets per booking.

All Net proceeds from the show will be donated to Foodbank Victoria

Friday 30 & Saturday 31 January, 6:30pm

COMEDY SPECIAL TAPING

Con Coutis has been sent to Heck Island to perform stand-up comedy. After a security scare, he is wrongfully imprisoned. With an hour on the clock, he must break out, clear his name and tell at least 28 jokes.

Escape from Heck Island is like being inside a really funny prison break movie. To add to the immersion, the show makes use of surround sound (!) and some other tech trickery you'll have to see to believe.

★★★★★ ArtsHub  

★★★★★ The Funny Tonne  

★★★★★ Lilithia Reviews  

★★★★★ Theatre Matters  

★★★★ The Age  

NOMINATED - Green Room Award for Best Sound Design, Independent Theatre 2024 + 2025
NOMINATED - Golden Gibbo Award Melb Int. Comedy Festival 2023
NOMINATED - Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe 2023 + 2024
WINNER - Sound and Technical Excellence Award at Melbourne Fringe 2024

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Monday 2 February, 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 10 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

Saturdays from 7 Feb - 7 Mar, 6:30pm

Melbourne's best comedians try out their new shit.

We’re peeling back the curtain and shining the light on Melbourne’s best comedians as they test out their freshest material in these lineup shows of our best comedians.

Be the very first to hear jokes that might end up in award-winning shows, Gala appearances, or maybe even straight in the bin.

Expect new bits, scribbled notes, nerves, and a whole lot of laughs from your favourite comedians trying their newest jokes.

Limit 10 tickets per customer

UPCOMING LINEUPS TBA

26 March - 19 April, 6:00pm

After a 2025 sold-out national tour of his completely improvised stand-up show, Wil Anderson is back for more. No script, no recordings, just every night a different show created specifically for the audience in the room.

Witness one of the fastest comedic minds of his generation for a unique Festival experience in the intimate surroundings of Melbourne’s favourite Comedy Club - Comedy Republic.

BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WILL SELL OUT TOO QUICKLY.

“A back-to-basics gem, stand-up in its most ephemeral and pure form.” The Saturday Paper, 2025  

26 March - 19 April, 7:30pm

I told my manager I wanted to write a show about dead dogs, and she said “oh god” but that’s not really my problem, it’s her job to market it.

This show isn’t sad, you will leave feeling good. I promise.

Thinking about asking my vet for a refund on the euthanasia just to see what happens.

27 & 28 March, 10:30pm

After a totally sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, Award-winning character comedians and IRL Sisters, Maddy and Marina Bye (Byes), are bringing their hit show to Melbourne for the very first time.

Finally, their years of research is complete and you get the first glimpse into their incredibly innovative invented invention. Set your alarms and see Siblings swoop into the surreal world of your sleeping minds as they crack open your brains and backflip in.

Gird your loins for a knock(ed) out hour of absurd, raucous and down right delirious comedy.

“So savagely funny” ★★★★★ Ed Fringe Review  

“Bone Achingly Funny” ★★★★★ Three Weeks  

“A wonderful, anarchic sketch show from two superb performers” ★★★★ The List  

28 March & 18 April, 3:00pm

Sammy Petersen dives into the world of reddit so you don’t have to…and finds the most awful confessions to pick apart with amazing guests.

Special guests to be announced.

Sunday 29 March, 4:30pm

A joyful, absurd celebration of Stuart Daulman’s 20 years in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Revisiting characters, stories and chaos in Stuart Daulman, This Is Your Comedy Life.

3 - 5 April, 8:30pm

What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking, is John-Luke's most stand-uppy stand-up show yet (although it’s also got poems and songs in it). A 4-laughs-a-minute (which is pretty good actually) meditation on mortality, human complexity and maybe also JL’s bulletproof theory that the UK’s (and Australia’s, come to think of it) monarch should be replaced with a tortoise as head of state.

Winner of the Besties Edinburgh Fringe Legend Award and one of The Telegraph’s (UK) 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century. The Guardian have also said nice things about him and, tbh, he’s much more in their wheelhouse politically.

★★★★ The Guardian  

★★★★ The Times  

★★★★ The Telegraph  

Saturday 11 April, 3:00pm

Rhys Nicholson, Kyran Nicholson and Georgia Mooney have been Fwends for ages.

Each week they talk to a new Fwend on their podcast Fwends, to learn about their Fwends and perhaps learn about how to be a better Fwend. They do not say "fwends" every time.

This will be the first ever live recording of the long-running podcast. Come!

Sunday 12 April, 2:00pm & 4:00pm

After a fully sold out run at Edinburgh fringe and being reviewed one of the top 5 of the thousands of shows on offer, Michelle Brasier figured she could probably milk her show REFORM a little more by performing it in Melbourne, this time not during a pandemic (cute!) and this time for a very special taping (the taping of a very special). For two shows only Michelle is coming home to Comedy Republic.

Reform is a cautionary tale of an online scam and the urge to empathise with, understand, and become the emergency contacts of those who have done us wrong. A theatrical hour of storytelling and music, with Tim Lancaster playing the role of his own worst enemy. Maybe the real Facebook Marketplace is the friends we make along the way.

*there will be cameras, if you are in hiding for crimes etc, make sure you wear a little hat AND this will probably sell out please book fast, I can’t do extras - I have to go back to the musical I am doing where I do a two hour long impression of Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny (this is real).

“Engagingly propulsive … thoroughly entertaining … dishing out gutsy optimism and faith in redemption” ★★★★★ The Times