Big Fork Theatre
is Brisbane’s home of comedy
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Improvised Comedy
Improvised comedy is made up on the spot. Big Fork Theatre 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, iO Chicago, and festivals around the world.
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Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy, like Saturday Night Live or Full Frontal, is bite-sized comedy scenes. Big Fork Theatre has been performing live sketch comedy since 2014, and we have the funniest 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!
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
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.
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 Montage.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
WOODEN SPOON FINAL - THE LOSING TEAMS OF HEAT 1 AND HEAT 2
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!
Queer Show is one of our most popular shows, featuring the best LGBTQIA+ improvisers and comedians in Brisbane. Sharing stories from their lives and bringing cheeky fun to their lived experiences, it's a 10/10 would do again comedy show!
Opening the show is Crowd Sourced. We take all our audience suggestions and write them on a whiteboard. Then a cast of Brisbane's best improvisers turn all these suggestions into hilarious scenes. It's fast-paced and so much fun!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $15 ONLINE | $20 ON THE DOOR
Join Big Fork Theatre for a night of celebration and fun as some of our more experienced improvisers graduate to the next level!
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!
The Scene students have taken their improv skills to the next level and have been working really hard on the 2 person scene. They are ready to roll!
Lastly, our Character students have been working on creating strong improv characters 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.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
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 improvised Hollywood award show in honour of you!
Forged in the hilariously brutal fires of Big Fork Theatre's weekly comedy showdown Cage Match, And The Winner Is... rose quickly through the ranks and soon became one of the most successful improv teams to ever grace the Big Fork stage.
Featuring a star-studded cast of Brisbane improvisers - Matthew E Matthews, Rhys McCane, Imogen Behan-Willett, Martin Ingle, Shayla Derwent and Kelsey Hamill - this show is a Hollywood awards ceremony made up entirely on the spot AND the audience gets to decide the award categories. This will be the most fun you have ever had at an awards night!
Come find out why And The Winner Is... is so damn good.
An epic tabletop role play show for binge watchers and film buffs – this month’s feature is the Australian film series MAD MAX!
Welcome to the Wasteland for a live roleplay game tribute to the post-apocalyptic dieselpunk world of Mad Max! Host Taylor Edwards leads a band of comedians through an action-packed adventure of survival. Witness epic chases and truly unhinged characters in a desert world of cars and chrome!
Hot Shot Adventures homebrews one-shot TTRP games out of your favourite shows, and trials them onstage with hilarious improvisers and comedians. It’s perfect for casual gamers and the uninitiated alike, with no need to follow a campaign or understand mechanics. Roll for chaos!
This adventure features:
Martin Ingle (Writer, film maker, performer)
Coen Gilbert (improviser)
Dan Dennis (comedian)
And Taylor Edwards as Game Master
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!
Opening the show is Crowd Sourced. We take all our audience suggestions and write them on a whiteboard. Then a cast of Brisbane's best improvisers turn all these suggestions into hilarious scenes. It's fast-paced and so much fun!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $15 ONLINE | $20 ON THE DOOR