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.
Kings of Comedy: Underground, Uncensored, Unrivalled
Enjoy stand-up comedy from future stars and celebrity guest headliners.
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.
Sonia Di Iorio: Right Here, Right Now
A stand-up show loaded with gags about trying to live in the moment.
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.
Australia's Worst Journalist
A raucous comedy hour from Sweeney Preston that's a celebration of dating mistakes.
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.
Lara Ricote: Inkling
Lara Ricote returns to Australia with an hour of exceedingly surreal oddball musings.
Melbourne's best drag shows and queer-friendly venues
Find burlesque life drawing, cabaret and the best queer-friendly venues in Melbourne.
Dystopia Simulator 2024
Get ready for the feel-bad show of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Luke McQueen: Comedian's Comedian
Critically acclaimed comedy maverick Luke McQueen makes his Australian debut.
David O'Doherty: Highway To The David Zone
A new opus from the hairy Enya, the Ryanair Bublé, the nine volt battery-powered Beethoven.
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.
