Comedy
Melbourne offers plenty of laughs, at stand up comedy shows and comedy clubs around town and in the annual comedy festival held from March to April.
The Vaudeville Revue: Cabaret, Comedy and Burlesque
Experience Melbourne's most intimate variety show in a hidden gem of the city.
Comedy at the Coopers Inn
A comedy club featuring the best local, interstate and international stand-up comedians.
Weekend Showcase: Basement Comedy Club
See the very best of Australian standup comedians perform four days a week during the holidays.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The festival that takes over the city celebrates 40 years of funny - come have a laugh.
The Big Animal Quiz with Kirsty Webeck and Ivan Aristeguieta
A family-friendly live show is an hour of laughs, education and banter about animals.
Sunday Night Stand Up Comedy Show: Melbourne Comedy Festival
Club Voltaire Comedy takes its Sunday show to the Comedy Festival.
No Scripts Given: An Improvised Comedy
Watch some of Melbourne's finest improvisers turn their tragic tales into an improvised comedy.
Mr Snotbottom/Mark Trenwith: P.Gee!
Clean but chaotic, harmless but hectic, innocent but edgy physical comedy for all ages.
Behind the Lines: Are We Rolling?
An exhibition exploring all the twists and turns of another turbulent year in Australian politics.
Rohan Arneil: You Wouldn't Have Cut Me Off...
Rohan brings his new show, You Wouldn’t Have Cut Me Off If I Wasn’t So Sunburnt, to MICF 2026.
Tofiga Fepulea'i: Shuuush Your Mouf
See the Humble King of Comedy as he muses on all the things that matter to a man in his 50s.
Dystopia Simulator 2024
Get ready for the feel-bad show of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
TGIF! with Charlie Pickering
Join Charlie Pickering and his guests for an hour of laughs every Friday.
Jay Wymarra is a Tropical Fruit
Comedian, Jay Wymarra, is part Torres Strait Islander, part queer wizard and ripe with juicy yarns.
Gossip
Can a show about ethics be funny? All will be revealed in this philosophical musical comedy cabaret.
Grain Of Truth
Local comedians pit their wits against each other in a series of rounds of complete nonsense
Blanc de Blanc Encore
Experience an intoxicating blend of circus, cabaret, comedy and risqué glamour.
Happy Birthday Taylah Whelan
This isn't a show where a woman in her mid-twenties does a child voice. It’s worse.
Where to see comedy in Melbourne
The Comics Lounge Comedy Club
Enjoy a night of laughs, cocktails, food and friends with stand-up comedy acts.
Spleen Bar
Live jazz nights and jam sessions open to all, along with a range of beers, shots and cocktails.
