2025 programme
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: Live!!! (& Dead!!!)
Winner Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2024
Winner 2023 BBC New Comedy Award Winner
Here he is! Yorkshire’s biggest bastard is in Melbourne for the very first time!
Join owner and MC of The Misty Moon (a pub that is a portal to hell) for a slap-up feast of laughs, tricks and dirty lager. Can Frankie save showbiz? Can he protect his pub from demonic ruin?? Can you touch his special trowel??? (No Way!).
'A one-man old-time variety show... Triumphant.' ★★★★★ Beyond The Joke
'Devilishly funny.' ★★★★★ The Telegraph (UK)
Jack Ansett | Looks Like a Bit of Me!
I, Jack Ansett (Taskmaster NZ, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee) am returning to Australia with a brand-new show!
This is a great opportunity for you to get out of the house and enjoy a laugh with some friends.
I’d also like to take this opportunity to plug a young up and comer Ray O’Leary, who I think could do really well in the Australian market if he can get in front of enough people. I know you would much rather buy tickets to the big acts like, Aaron Chen, Urzila Carlson, Jack Ansett – but it is always a good idea to take a shot on a lesser-known face.
Language – occasional coarse language
Connor Burns | Gallus
Don’t miss the all-new show from Scotland’s hilarious global break-through stand-up star!
GALLUS is Connor Burns' fourth solo hour. A prolific joke writer who’s lightning fast, Connor's razor-sharp wit combines with his signature single malt Scottish-level cynicism to help create the perfect storm of brilliant jokes performed by a disarming comedy powerhouse and, now more recently, has seen him become a social media star.
Connor’s previous smash-hit show 1994 sold 10,000+ tickets in Edinburgh, sold out two solo Glasgow King’s Theatre dates and toured worldwide (including 50+ UK shows, 35+ in Australia, 15 shows across Europe and included an off-Broadway run as part of 2024’s New York Comedy Festival). Winner of the prestigious international Fringe Encore Series in both 2025 and 2024, Connor has supported Daniel Sloss in three continents and filmed his debut special Vertigo, for world-wide release on the prestigious 800LB Gorilla comedy label.
'Burns has arrived... An authentic Scottish voice. And a gallus one at that.' ★★★★ Entertainment-Now.com
'Hugely gifted.' BeyondtheJoke.com
'Brilliant... gags coming at you at a terrifying rate... Superb!' ★★★★ The List (UK)
'Hilarious... he is fearless and it is wonderful!' ★★★★★ The Scotsman
Schalk Bezuidenhout | Hey Hey Divorcé
Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with a brand-new show. His first and (hopefully, for the love of all things good) only show post divorce.
Schalk hasn’t checked in with you all in sometime and he wants to talk to you. Actually… he needs to talk to you! Why? Because it’s cheaper than therapy. That’s why!
As seen on Netflix and Comedy Central. Arena tour support for Trevor Noah.
‘Rapid-fire gags and manic energy. Highly recommended.’ ★★★★ The Age
★★★★★ Ed Fringe Review
★★★★ Mervyn Stutter
★★★★ Broadway Baby (UK)
‘Fast-rising talent.’ The Guardian