Big Fork is Brisbane’s home of comedy
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Improvised comedy
Improvised comedy is made up on the spot. Big Fork has Brisbane’s funniest and best improvisers performing every week, including in our flagship show Cool Story Bro featuring local Brisbane legends telling true stories. Our improvisers have trained at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, New Zealand Improv Festival and iO Chicago.
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy, like Saturday Night Live or Full Frontal, is bite sized comedy scenes. Big Fork Theatre have been performing live sketch comedy since 2014, and we have the finniest writers and actors in Brisbane bringing you regular hilarious sketch comedy including in our show Get It* Inya. (*live comedy).
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Stand up comedy
Stand up comedy is a core part of any comedy lineup - one person, a mic and finely honed jokes. Big Fork Theatre presents some of the best stand up comedians Brisbane has to offer, with a guarantee of quality and entertainment. Come have a laugh and see comedians performing new and tried and tested work.
See a show at Big Fork Theatre!
Brisbane's favourite improvised comedy showdown AND musical comedy all in one show!
Each week our reigning Cage Match champions are challenged by a new team. Each team performs a hilarious 20 minutes of improvised comedy, and you the audience get to vote on who continues to next week. This raucous, fun show will get you through to Friday with a spring in your step. This is comedy at its competitive best. This is mate vs mate. This is Cage Match!
Opening the show this week is the Musical Mixer!!! Brisbane's best musical improvisers will sing hilarious songs off the cuff in this absolute spectacle of a show.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
An evening of hilarious alternative comedy from Brisbane's best comedians!
Clowns, poets, sketch comedy, live music, burlesque! We got it all! It’s going to be weird and that’s exactly what we want! Do Something is a big night of alternative comedy where Brisbane’s best comedians do anything except stand-up comedy.
Presented by Brisbane sketch comedy legend Matt Nunn.
THIS SHOW IS SCRICTLY 18+
A totally improvised musical from Brisbane's best musical improv troupe the Tuning Forks!
See these talented comedians sing, dance and joke through a Broadway-style musical made up entirely on the spot. Accompanied by the incredible musician/director Mark Grimes, this show will leave you in stitches and also a little bit gobsmacked - they're world-class!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $15 ONLINE | $20 ON THE DOOR
Join comedian Chris Martin and his funny mates for a night of raucous laughter!
Chris, one of Brisbane’s best comedians, has been doing stand up comedy for 10 years and has hours of hilarious material, so he’s decided to perform it all YEAHHHH!!! This is the biggest challenge of his comedy career – four shows, over four Sundays, with no repeat material. Every show will be different with great jokes and cracking stories guaranteed!
Sunday Roast is taking over Big Fork Theatre every Sunday in August (except the 31st because Chris will be in Thailand YEAHHHH!!!). Every show will be opened by one of Chris’ comedy mates.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR - now that's a bloody bargain!
Brisbane's longest running sketch comedy show!
Join Brisbane's best comedy writers and performers as they showcase their brand new sketches, characters and comedy bits you'll never see the like of again. Every show is a totally new hour of sketch comedy that will have you howling with laughter. If you love shows like Thank God You're Here or Saturday Night Live, then this is the show for you!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's favourite improvised comedy showdown every Thursday night at Big Fork Theatre!
Each week our reigning Cage Match champions are challenged by a new team. Each team performs a hilarious 20 minutes of improvised comedy, and you the audience get to vote on who continues to next week. This raucous, fun show will get you through to Friday with a spring in your step. This is comedy at its competitive best. This is mate vs mate. This is Cage Match!
Opening the show this week is The Mixer.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
HEAT 1
Four teams. One winner. The Brisbane Improv League pits the best of the best against each other in an electrifying showdown of wit, jokes, and goofs. With all the exhilarating highs and lows of the State of Origin footy season, the Brisbane Improv League is a not-to-be-missed comedy event!
Raw muscle, tactical thinking, good cardiovascular fitness... all these things are USELESS in the Brisbane Improv League stadium. Who will win? Find out across four shows from August to October. Choose your team and cheer them through to the finals. No fence sitters allowed.
Back to back killer shows for your Saturday night!
Raised By Wolves, Brisbane's best and longest running improv group, are back! Watch them weave a hilarious improv set from nothing more then a single word. With more then 50 years of improv experience between them, RBW are Brisbane comedy royalty. Come on a wild, laugh out loud journey with them!
Big Fun Show is our newest show at Big Fork Theatre. A cast of brilliant improvisers doing what we do best - good funny improv!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $15 ONLINE | $20 ON THE DOOR
Join comedian Chris Martin and his funny mates for a night of raucous laughter!
Chris, one of Brisbane’s best comedians, has been doing stand up comedy for 10 years and has hours of hilarious material, so he’s decided to perform it all YEAHHHH!!! This is the biggest challenge of his comedy career – four shows, over four Sundays, with no repeat material. Every show will be different with great jokes and cracking stories guaranteed!
Sunday Roast is taking over Big Fork Theatre every Sunday in August (except the 31st because Chris will be in Thailand YEAHHHH!!!). Every show will be opened by one of Chris’ comedy mates.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR - now that's a bloody bargain!
Brisbane's favourite improvised comedy showdown every Thursday night at Big Fork Theatre!
Each week our reigning Cage Match champions are challenged by a new team. Each team performs a hilarious 20 minutes of improvised comedy, and you the audience get to vote on who continues to next week. This raucous, fun show will get you through to Friday with a spring in your step. This is comedy at its competitive best. This is mate vs mate. This is Cage Match!
Opening the show this week is the La Ronde.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR