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!
I've got a terrible feeling about this show. Like somehow the whole thing is doomed. I have this recurring dream where I'm on stage, thousands of miles from home and the crowd has turned on me. There are thousands of them and they are all booing me and Sofia Vergara (from Modern Family) is there and so is Simon Cowell and he’s slamming his fist into a red buzzer and the sound splits the air like a gunshot and the ceiling rips open and confetti rains down like debris but the booing only gets louder and louder and louder and louder and then I wake up, and realise that all of that actually happened to me.
This show has nothing to do with that story. I doubt I'll even mention it.
As booed on America's Got Talent
'Offers nothing personal and almost no actual content.' ★★★★ Chortle (UK)
'Egotistical delusions.' ★★★★ The Scotsman (UK)
'Indescribable.' ★★★★ The List (UK)
'Disorderly.' ★★★★★ Isolated Nation
'When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?”'
Matthew 26:20
PLEASE NOTE: U18 require accompaniment by a legal guardian
SHOW LENGTH: Roughly 70 minutes
I've got a terrible feeling about this show. Like somehow the whole thing is doomed. I have this recurring dream where I'm on stage, thousands of miles from home and the crowd has turned on me. There are thousands of them and they are all booing me and Sofia Vergara (from Modern Family) is there and so is Simon Cowell and he’s slamming his fist into a red buzzer and the sound splits the air like a gunshot and the ceiling rips open and confetti rains down like debris but the booing only gets louder and louder and louder and louder and then I wake up, and realise that all of that actually happened to me.
This show has nothing to do with that story. I doubt I'll even mention it.
As booed on America's Got Talent
'Offers nothing personal and almost no actual content.' ★★★★ Chortle (UK)
'Egotistical delusions.' ★★★★ The Scotsman (UK)
'Indescribable.' ★★★★ The List (UK)
'Disorderly.' ★★★★★ Isolated Nation
'When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve. And as they were eating, he said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, “Is it I, Lord?”'
Matthew 26:20
PLEASE NOTE: U18 require accompaniment by a legal guardian
SHOW LENGTH: Roughly 70 minutes
Join Big Fork Theatre for a night of celebration and fun as some of our more experienced improvisers graduate to the next level!
Tonight's graduation show includes performances from these Term 2 classes:
Improv Fundamentals: Chris' Class
The Harold: Imogen's Class
Intro To Musical Improv: Mark's Class
Our Improv Fundamentals students have been working hard learning all the basics of improv comedy, and now they get to showcase these new skills in a final class performance for you!
Our Harold students have been learning the world's most famous improv format - The Harold! This format is the backbone of all Chicago style improv formats AND these advanced students are ready to show off their new skills.
Our Intro To Musical Improv students have taken their first steps towards musical comedy. Watch them sing, dance and joke as they improvise hilarious songs on the spot.
Calling on friends, family, partners, work colleagues, and anyone else - come support this new crop of students as they take their improv journey to the next level.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
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.
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 Montage.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Brisbane’s best comedy writers and performers bring you a double episode of a fully scripted sitcom performed live!
JUNE SHOW:
Sitcom LIVE: WFH, lol
Be in the studio audience for a BRAND NEW sitcom that will (probably) never be filmed. Brisbane’s best comedy writers and performers bring you a double episode of a fully scripted sitcom performed live.
This month it’s “WFH, lol” the brand new office comedy that’s mostly not in an office.
Sick of waiting for a new episode of some sitcom written by people you’ve never heard of? Try this, a live immediate sitcom that is also written by people you’ve never heard of, but they’re from Brisbane!
This is the first of a series of brand new, never before seen episodes of Sitcom Live! New episodes will be released in August and November so keep your eyes peeled!
This show is produced by Rosa Sottile, who has been writing and performing comedy in Brisbane for over 10 years. She has performed solo and collaborative shows and is the producer and director of Big Fork Theatre’s regular sketch show Get It Inya, as well as the annual Big Fork Sketch Fest.
Back to back killer shows for your Saturday night!
Big Fun Show is our newest show at Big Fork Theatre. A cast of brilliant improvisers doing what we do best - good funny improv!
Women's Show is one of our best shows period. Featuring a stellar cast of women & non-binary performers, they will create incredible comedy scenes and stories that will leave you in stitches. You'll be smiling ear to ear!
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Brisbane's best comedians are at Big Fork Theatre every second Sunday of the month!
The perfect evening of side-splitting stand up comedy. Each show features a professional MC, alongside the best comedians from Brisbane and beyond - you never know who might drop in!
Finish your weekend with a laugh. Every second Sunday.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
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.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Culprits are back! Two of Brisbane’s favourite improvisers perform a completely improvised play based on your suggestions!
Brisbane’s favourite improv duo are back to perform a hilarious two-person improvised play with way more than two characters. No tricks, no gimmicks, just two actors making everything up as they go along, all inspired by a single word from the audience.
“We were promised at the beginning of the performance that everything we would see would be completely improvised. After the show, my group could barely believe it... to our untrained eyes, it was too perfect and too funny to fit our meagre understanding of improvisation. And if that’s not the best compliment for Culprits, I don’t know what is" - Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane