Thursday 14 May, 6:00pm

Return to the world of The Witchy Girls for the third and fourth episodes of the series. Part screening, part live spectacle, this special event is the very first chance anywhere in the world to see the latest episodes in the series.

The night is a mix of screening and live companion performances from the stars plus special guest appearances from the world of The Witchy Girls. Expect a viewing experience that is obnoxiously queer, dark-sided and as always CAMP-AS-TITS!

EPISODES
03. The Witchy Girls vs Killing Heidi
After losing out on tickets to see Killing Heidi, The Witchy Girls attempt a powerful luck spell that spirals out of control.

04. The Witchy Girls vs Love
When the Witchy Girls cast a spell to manifest Zelda’s perfect man they quickly realise that’s a terrible idea. Susan suggests creating a better version of Zelda instead.

This is viewer-supported television in real time. Every ticket sold directly funds the making of the series. No gatekeepers, no networks. Just a room full of people making a show exist.

Every Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat, 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 Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, you can be sure to catch a heap of the best comedians Melbourne and the wider world have to offer!

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Every Sunday, 4:00pm

Your Sunday afternoon plans just got upgraded.

Welcome to Sunday Laughternoons - a secret lineup of very good comedians, drink specials, and zero pressure. You won’t know who’s on until they walk out.

End your weekend on a high note with this week's secret lineup.

Every Tuesday, 7:30pm

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

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

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Every Wednesday, 6:30pm

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.

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Thursday 28 May, 6:00pm

Join Lazy Susan, Zelda Moon and friends for the Grand Finale Screening of The Witchy Girls. Your last chance to come and experience a live Witchy Girl screening. Part screening, part live spectacle, this special event is the very first chance anywhere in the world to experience the Grand Finale of the series.

The night will spill beyond the screen with live companion performances from the stars plus special guest appearances from the world of The Witchy Girls. Expect a viewing experience that is chaotic and entirely satisfying.

EPISODES:
05. The Witchy Girls vs The Future
After a disastrous biscuit selling job, a career counsellor warns Zelda and Susan that they may be holding each other back. Hoping to prove her wrong, the girls cast a spell to see their futures.

06. The Witchy Girls vs STDs
Susan’s carefully planned school STD Awareness musical is thrown into chaos when a spell brings the disease mascots to life.

This is viewer-supported television in real time. Every ticket sold directly funds the making of the series. No gatekeepers, no networks. Just a room full of people making a show exist.

Monday 1 June, 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

Tuesday 9 June, 6:00pm

Haus of Dy-LAN is a high energy comedy hour injected with songs, personal anecdotes, and even acrobatics. He talks about growing up with an identical gay twin, getting bullied in school in liberal San Francisco, and screaming at his therapist. By the end of the show, he will be drenched in sweat and if you’re lucky, so will you.

Friday 3 July, 8:00pm

Join us for a massive birthday bash featuring a stacked lineup of Comedy Republic favourites, the comics who’ve made you cry laughing over the last five years, all back on one stage, one night only.

Expect surprises, throwbacks, big names, and the kind of chaotic energy that only happens when comedians get sentimental.

Special line up to be announced

Saturday 4 July, 6:30pm

MICF Directors Choice Winner 2026, this is stand up comedy but different. Rapid fire, high energy, off kilter. Join award winning comic Kate Dolan for her brand new hour of absurdist stand up, ‘Trout’ unspools the idea that in 2026 being a fish in the river might be nicer than a woman on land. Expect a loud woman on stage being loud.

“Dolan is the next big thing. Or more precisely the Now Big Thing you might not have heard about yet.” ★★★★★ Theatre Matters  

“Robin Williams-esque vocal impressionism” ★★★★★ Binge Fringe Magazine  

“Reminiscent of Jim Carrey” ★★★★ The Scotsman  

Sunday 5 July, 6:00pm

Cherub is the best newcomer nominated (MICF) debut solo stand-up show from Palawa comedian Tarsh Jago.

Directed by Rose Bishop, this show is inspired by a tweet that read "You don't look Aboriginal, you look like the cherub from the pears soap".

This hour blends razor-sharp comedy with heartfelt storytelling about race, queerness and kinship and the beauty of these identities while acknowledging and challenging the perceptions of these communities held by the wider population.

Thursday 9 July, 7:30pm

What do you do when your life explodes? A show that'll slap, tickle, shock and bend you over with laughter. 1/3 play, 1/3 standup, 1/3 rave.

Kate Dehnert's life recently blew up.

We're talking: relationship; career; income; opportunities; visa; losing almost all of her possessions; what country she lived in; she almost died; and for some incredibly annoying reason she now has a way-too-overactive gag reflex. Like, she could stand in front of you and if you told her to vomit, she could. What the hell?

And all of this only happened because the grey areas were so strong they may as well have been technicolour.

A brave, honest and vital exploration of an explosion and reconstruction of self.

“The dawning of a psychedelicomic superstar” ★★★★1/2 The Herald Sun  

“A force to be reckoned with” ★★★★1/2 Chortle  

Directed by Matt Jenner
Lighting Design by Caitlyn Staples

Friday 10 July, 6:00pm

In 2026 Lloyd will have been a professional stand-up comedian for twenty years. And it doesn’t get any easier. Not the comedy but writing these little blurbs.

A brand-new stand-up comedy show from a man that sounds like a YouTube video played at half speed. Come along and hear about Lloyd’s problems with every other single person on earth. May contain jokes about giraffes, clouds and salt.

As seen on Have You Been Paying Attention?, Thank God You’re Here, Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee, The Hundred With Andy Lee.

“A collection of absolutely top-class standalone jokes.” The Guardian  

“Brilliant, charming, understated.” The Independent  

Friday 10 July, 7:30pm

Comedy Republic proudly presents Best In Show, a one-off showcase of the award winners and nominees from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. This year’s lineup promises an incredible array of Australia’s most ingenious emerging comedy stars.

Discover why these comedians were the judges’ top picks and experience a hilarious night of forward-thinking ideas.

This Year’s Comedy Festival Picks: TBA

Saturday 11 July, 4:30pm

It's lo-fi beats to watch man to. It's a new happy Bon. Let him take you on a tour of everything he likes, except Star Trek, there is no Star Trek in this show even though Bon likes Star Trek. Bon is okay now. It's Bon, it's good.

As seen on Aunty Donna, Grouse House, Thank God You're Here on Channel 10 and We Interrupt This Broadcast on Channel 7.

“Ben immediately hypnotized me into a blissful delirium that I never wanted to end”  Funny Tonne  

“Unlike anything even the most seasoned festival-goer will have seen before” ★★★★ The Age  

Winner Directors' Choice Award 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2022 Moosehead Recipient
Nominee Golden Gibbo Award 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Saturday 11 July, 6:00pm

Claire Hooper is the least fun person she knows. She’s used to getting her dopamine from answering emails and getting places on time. But she is gonna do what it takes – joke t-shirts, family glamping, practical jokes, birdwatching, laser tag, rock concerts – to become fun again.

A rollercoaster of jokes from an adult who doesn’t want to die thinking; well at least I said no to everything.

As seen on The Gala, Have You Been Paying Attention and Claire Hooper’s House of Games.

2025 AACTA Nominee Best Stand Up Comedy Special

“Hooper is silly, self-deprecating, manic and sweet. I defy anyone not to be charmed”  Theatre Matters  

“Getting out to any comedy gig is a ‘type two’ endeavour, but if it’s Hooper’s, the effort is most certainly worth it.” ★★★★ Chortle  

Saturday 11 July, 7:30pm

Back from the United States, multi-award-winning comic Cassie Workman presents You Are Here, a surreal elegy for New Jersey’s West Valley Mall.

Nominee: Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026

“It is extremely difficult to create something that is both so dark and so funny, blending absurdity and existentialism, but Workman has done so masterfully.” ★★★★★ The Guardian  

“Cinematic in scale, theatrical in its exceptional staging, and breathtakingly poetic, You Are Here is a powerful antidote to these extraordinarily dark times.” ★★★★★ The Age  

“You Are Here is a poignant, poetic and bold commentary.” ★★★★ Chortle  

12, 19 & 26 July, 6:00pm
2 August, 6:00pm

A fully improvised quiz show where the experts are idiots. Kyran Nicholson and his celebrity guest see just how badly they go attempting a quiz - with the trusty assistance of the brains trust phoning in (read: the best improv comedians in Melbourne/The World deep, and sometimes shallow, in character).

If you like improv, this is some of Australia's best. Be part of the live episode recorded at Comedy Republic and listen back wherever you get your podcasts.

16 July, 6:00pm
24 July, 7:40pm

Winner Director’s Choice Award 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Nominee Most Outstanding Show 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival

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

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.

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

Thursday 16 July, 7:30pm

Aberdeen is a dark and surreal biography of Kurt Cobain, incorporating time travel and the supernatural to weave an epic love poem for the fallen icon.

Award-winning writer Cassie Workman takes audiences on a journey through Washington, grunge, life, death, and salvation in this heartbreaking homage to one of our most beloved musicians.

Winner: First Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe 2022

“Captivated from start to finish” Phoebe Waller-Bridge  

“Fierce intellect... something raw and powerful. Brilliant” ★★★★ The Age  

“Workman delivers a darkly beautiful hour of spoken word” ★★★★ The Guardian  

Friday 17 July, 6:00pm

After an entirely sold out season at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Hannah returns to the beloved Replay to reprise her playful, absurd hour Dinner Hannah Show.

Set inside the theatre, this story unfolds with a couple of insufferable actors and a familiar, matter-of-fact Head of Production, spiralling into one big theatrical mess. It’s character comedy, it’s farce, it’s award-winning clowning that lovingly and irreverently observes the theatre world.

Directed by Dylan Murphy
Developed with Matt Jenner, Dylan Murphy, Tanya Cubric and Pat Mooney
Outside Eye Tanya Cubric, Pat Mooney and Lucy Fox
Image by Pat Mooney

Nominee: Best Newcomer Longlist, ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023
Nominee: Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023
Winner: Pinder Prize, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023

“A masterclass in versatility.” ★★★★ The List (UK)

“At the top of her game.” ★★★★1/2 Theatre Thoughts

“Rode waves of laughs.” ★★★★ Hugging Comedians

Friday 17 July, 7:30pm

Nominated for Most Outstanding Show Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026

After a lifetime of anxiety, complex PTSD, and low self-esteem Frankie is finally done making themselves small. So now whenever self-doubt creeps in, they ask themselves one simple question: “What would someone with a huge ass do in this situation?”

A chaotic love letter to delusional optimism, resilience & becoming the ass you want to see in the world!

PLEASE NOTE Huge Ass Mindset contains topics of sexual assault, childhood sexual assault and wobbly mental health and may not be suitable for everyone. Audience members are welcome to step out of the show at any time and there will be support phone numbers available :)

Saturday 18 July, 3:00pm & 6:00pm

Alexei Toliopoulos simply adores cinema, films, movies and the techniques filmmakers use to elicit emotions from an audience. He has sacrificed everything to be one of the most respected movie minds in the country.

Pop the tape into the VCR and join Alexei as he takes you on an adventure in movie watching, charting through the genre films that made him the tragic film obsessive he was destined to become.

You know Alexei from Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, The Cheap Seats, Question Everything, The Weekly, his comedy investigations FINDING DRAGO/FINDING YEEZUS, his podcast THE LAST VIDEO STORE and from last year’s festival hit REFUSED CLASSIFICATION with Zachary Ruane.

“You can’t help but love Toliopoulos” ★★★★ The Age, 2026  

Saturday 18 July, 4:30pm

An erotic confusion, a mind virus, a psychedelic pleasure vehicle initiated by a South African bug exterminator. It’s character comedy at its finest.

Best Newcomer Nominee, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2026.

Created and Performed by Barney Pollock (Thank God You’re Here, White Fever)
Developed with and directed by Hannah Camilleri (2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Pinder Prize Winner)
Script supervision by Kate Denhert (2026 Golden Gibbo Nominee, Get Krack!n)
Lighting Design by Caitlyn Staples. Featuring Bronte Locke (Bad Behaviour)

“The skill and commitment with which he inhabits his nightmarishly surreal characters tells you he’s an already accomplished performer - an absurd world full of uncanny situations and imaginative, expertly realised creations. Fans of The Boosh, David Lynch or Yorgos Lanthimos will surely find plenty to absorb them here.”  Chortle  

Saturday 18 July, 7:30pm

After a sold-out season at this year's Melbourne Comedy Festival, Urvi Majumdar returns with her acclaimed show 'Miss!'

Urvi is a teacher by day, comedian by night and hoping not to get recognised for the wrong one! From surviving six periods of PE to mishaps on Compass, a date that lasted 21 minutes and timetable mix ups leading to disaster, nothing’s off limits in this brand-new hour of raw and honest stand-up from one of Australia’s best.

Urvi has performed to sold-out crowds around the country and you might recognise her from hit TV shows Fisk, Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee and Spicks and Specks or The Cheap Seats. Her debut solo comedy show Urvi Went to an All Girls School was adapted by Screen Australia and ABC into an AACTA and AWGIE nominated webseries and a half hour pilot which aired on ABC and ABCiview.

Thursday 23 July, 6:00pm

I had breast reduction surgery, but they took them all. I didn’t want them, they were big and heavy and I wanted it to be easier to find clothes that would fit.

I wanted to be ready to evacuate in the middle of the night and not think I would die in a fire with one arm stuck in a bra strap. I wanted to believe in the possibility of doing a handstand…without hitting myself in the face.

Geraldine Hickey is a regular on our screens, appearing on I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, Spicks & Specks, The Cheap Seats and Have You Been Paying Attention?

“Hickey remains a must-see on any festival itinerary” ★★★★★ Standinginovation, 2026  

“Intimate, thoughtful and consistently funny” ★★★★ On The House, 2026  

“Delivers laughs with effortless precision” Weekend Notes, 2026  

★★★★ The Age, 2026  

Thursday 23 July, 7:30pm

Hello I am Greg and I weigh more than 99 percent of all performers at Replay Festival, so in terms of dollars spent per kilo you are already saving huge amounts by coming to see me.

I've won awards and stuff but who cares. What matters is that I am big and funny and I want to spend time with you.

In any case I hope you buy a ticket and watch me grub around and get mucky. If you are a real estate agent or you own one of those Ford Raptors then don't come. You are banned.

“Cuttingly perceptive sharp humour with hilarious results. A comic treat” ★★★★★ Glam Adelaide (2026)  

“Definitely R Rated, definitely recommend” ★★★★ The Age (2026)  

“Not a peodophile”  Chortle (UK)  

Friday 24 July, 6:00pm

Spoons see Damian Callinan return to the character narrative genre that has seen him receive nominations for Most Outstanding Show at MICF. Recently widowed, Stan Coates (84), is being nudged towards a move into a senior living facility, but he’s not having it. Sharp as a tack, but prone to falls brought on by orthostatic hypotension, he’s taken to wearing roller derby gear to obviate the dangers at home.

When his offspring trick him into an aged home visit, he plays along, but when the manager tell him he can’t bring his wife’s souvenir teaspoon collection, all bets are off. When his grandson, a student film maker, starts sharing his hilarious and heart wrenching riffs on the spoons, the clips go viral, and Stan becomes an unlikely poster boy for elder’s rights.

“Anchored by a remarkable performance from Damian Callinan, Spoons is a finely crafted piece of storytelling, character, and emotional precision”  Australian Arts Review  

Saturday 25 July, 4:30pm

Lena Moon has lived a life but doesn’t want to toot her own horn (mostly because that sounds like a sex thing). Celebrity encounters, VIP passes and a night out that earned her the nickname ‘Lena Moon-Boot’.

A show about bragging from a person who hates doing it.

As seen on Most Upsetting Guessing Game.

Directed by Celia Pacquola

“A freight train of comedy that barrels full speed at its audience with no intention of slowing down.” ★★★★ The Music  

Saturday 25 July, 6:00pm

Welcome aboard the production line at the T.E.M.U Joke Factory!

He Huang has spent ten years making jokes about being Chinese for people who aren’t. She knows exactly what works. What lands. What to cut. She has the data.

T.E.M.U Joke Factory is the show she made when she started wondering if that was the problem.

Dry. Sarcastic. Occasionally furious. Mostly funny.

As seen on Thank God You're Here, Australia's Got Talent and the Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala.

“It’s edgy, confrontational, even dangerous comedy.” ★★★★ Arts Hub  

Saturday 25 July, 7:30pm

Winner of the prestigious Golden Gibbo Award at this year's Melbourne International Comedy Festival, SWAG is a rapid-fire, uproarious expedition deep into the outback of our Australian identity, written and performed by cult favourite comedian Laura Davis.

An unprecedented comedy show written specifically for these turbulent times, SWAG travels the full expanse of this great nation, with a lot of laughs, a few surprises, and some very interesting characters to discover along the way.

“Laura Davis is without a doubt one of the best comedians at Comedy Festival year after year. Back-to-back nominations for Most Outstanding Show were clearly well earned.”  Scenestr  

“A hundred colourful, delicate mind ribbons are unspooled and then somehow tied together in a finale that beggars belief. Warms the soul also. I can't imagine a comedy show that ends on a more hopeful, life affirming note. What Davis achieves, year in year out, goes beyond stand-up. It is artful, philosophical, self-aware, rational and exuberant.”  British Comedy Guide  

“Impossible not to laugh.”  The Herald Sun  

This performace will be filmed.

Thursday 30 July, 6:00pm

Winner Best Newcomer 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Winner RAW Comedy NSW 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Comedy Zone 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Australia's fastest-rising comedian, Nathan Chin, brings his MICF award-winning hour of sharp, edgy, racial and politically risky comedy to Comedy Republic.

Nathan Chin is one of Australia's fastest rising comedians having won MICF award for Best Newcomer in 2026, RAW Comedy 2024 for NSW, performed on national television and been handpicked for MICF’s prestigious Comedy Zone program for 2025. He has performed in all of the biggest comedy clubs all across Australia, written for comedy shows on the ABC and has even featured on Netflix!

“Hugely entertaining…genuinely funny”  Chortle (UK)  

“Risky comedic territory, but the reward is there”  The Age  

Thursday 30 July, 7:30pm

Remember the good old days? When you were hotter/braver/brasher/more fun? Well, let's go back there, shall we? If only for 60 minutes or so...

Join award-nominated comedian Mish Wittrup on a walk down memory lane as you both try and figure out where we all went wrong.

Mish Wittrup is fresh off her sold out 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival season with a brand-new hour of comedy. You've seen her work with Aunty Donna, Michelle Brasier and on shows like Fisk (ABC/Netflix), Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe (ABC) and Sam Pang Tonight, but you've never seen her like this before!

“She’s one of the most incredible members of Australia’s comedy crowd.” ★★★★1/2 Glam Adelaide  

“Her expertise has the audience continuously laughing.” ★★★★1/2 Sydney Arts Guide  

“An hour in Mish Wittrup's delightful and cheerful company is an absolute joy..” ★★★★ Chortle (UK)  

Friday 31 July, 6:00pm

Alex Ward wants to tell you about something she did. Something legal.

It’s legality must be mentioned because while what Alex did was not a crime, never has something legal felt so illegal. You know the feeling. You get it when you’re driving near a cop car or when you walk out of a supermarket without buying anything, or when someone gives you free drugs…wild that last one isn’t actually illegal, right??

Alex’s new show explores flaws, social laws and mores…yes “mores”. She’s discovered she’s most likely dyslexic…but she’s not going to let a few correct letters get in the way of a more exciting sentence.

Seen on Have You Been Paying Attention?

“A solid, unshowy hour of relatable stand-up”  Chortle  

“Studded with punchlines”  The Age  

“Sophisticated comedy”  The Music  

Friday 31 July, 7:30pm

After witnessing his neighbour throw dog poo at a stranger in the park, comedian Rowan Thambar faced an unexpected moral (and legal) dilemma.

Sorry For The Late Reply is a sharp, story-driven comedy show about avoidance, neighbourly conflict and Fatman Scoop.

A former writer for The Project, this acclaimed hour blends big laughs with surprising heart and the awkward reality of doing the right thing in a messy world.

★★★★★ 27 Magazine  

★★★★ Funny Tonne  

“Rowan Thambar proves himself a captivating and insightful storyteller in Sorry For The Late Reply”  The Advertiser  

“His tales of working behind the scenes on The Project are engrossing. As are his quips about modern day friendship, immigration and tales of visiting Sri Lanka”  The Age  

Saturday 1 August, 4:30pm

As seen on Thank God You're Here, Most Upsetting Guessing Game and NETFLIX's Mako Mermaids

This is the debut hour from Amy Ruffle about brains, bodies and the last place you'd expect to find a burrito.

“With a cheeky glint in the eye, Amy found the balance between overt silliness and intellectual insights, providing commentary on serious health issues, diet culture and societal expectations.”  Hugging Comedians  

Saturday 1 August, 6:00pm

Lately I’ve been thinking about how hard it is to demonstrate my beautiful mind when everyone is so distracted by my beautiful body.

I can't predict what you'll think of this show but I’m sure you'll leave and wonder where I get my Botox injections.

I’ll save you the embarrassment of asking and tell you right now it's a woman named Rachael who is incredible at what she does.

Saturday 1 August, 7:30pm

As seen on ABC’s BAD COMPANY and GUY MONT-SPELLING BEE and more.

Award winning stand-up comedian, actor and suburban legend, Cameron James welcomes you into his tiny little world.

A world filled with: blue light discos, suburban dinner theatre restaurants, crap first kisses and teenage rockstar dreams.

After starring in the hit ABC series Bad Company, and popping up in Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Tonight At The Museum, and The Killings of Parrish Station, join the hilarious Cam for a night of his best bits, stories, jokes and maybe even some gosh darn music.

“Comedy gold” ★★★★1/2 The Herald  

“ Cameron is a stunning, evocative storyteller… the laughs come thick and fast”  Squirell Comedy  

Saturday 8 August, 6:30pm

Coach is a brand new show from award-winning comedian Josh Earl.

By day Josh is a junior basketball coach wrangling teenage egos, rogue jump shots and parents who think under 10s is basically the NBA. By night , he'st rying to work out how he became the responsible adult in the room.

Coach is a hilarious and heartfelt look at what happens when you attempt to teach teamwork to kids who'd rather shoot from the logo - and manage sideline parents reliving their glory days. Along the way Josh reflects on the male role models who shaped him, for better or worse, and what it really means to be a good man.

Sport, masculinity and missed layups - it's character building. Probably.

14 & 15 August, 6:30pm

The Kiwi-Pinoy Comedy Boy is back—hitting the road for his first-ever world tour with a brand new show, Mano Po.

A ‘mano po’ is a Filipino gesture of respect—given to your elders. And for Filipinos, you already know the fear: one day, it’s coming for you.

In 2025, James received his first serious ‘mano po’ request from a teenager which sent him into a spiral. Is he really old enough for this? What if he hasn't done enough with his life? Is this what a mid-life crisis feels like? Should he get a motorcycle? Damn, life comes at you FAST.

A funny and heartfelt new hour about ageing, unpacking your life and the panic of realising you’ve become the adult—whether you’re ready or not.

As seen on Just For Laughs, Instagram and TikTok

Runner Up: Best Show, Vancouver Fringe Festival 2024

“Charming, hilarious and clearly a star” Parlton and Pearl (CAN)  

“A hilarious, and heart-warming hour” ★★★★ Wee Review (UK)  

“A very smart comedian...completely in control ” ★★★★ EdFest Mag (UK)