Big Fork is Brisbane’s home of comedy

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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!

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Cage Match: Improvised Comedy Showdown
May 1
Cage Match: Improvised Comedy Showdown

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.

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.

Friday Comedy: Cool Story Bro
May 2
Friday Comedy: Cool Story Bro

Fast-paced, wild and so so funny!

Cool Story Bro mixes the real-life stories of our special guest storytellers with the fast-paced comedic minds of Brisbane’s best improvisers. This is a one-of-a-kind show that’ll have you laughing your socks off. CSB sold out at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, Wynnum Fringe Festival and Brisbane Improv Festival. Big Fork Theatre's longest running show!

Our special guest storyteller will be announced soon.

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.

Saturday Night Comedy: Queer Show & Big Fun Show
May 3
Saturday Night Comedy: Queer Show & Big Fun Show

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!

Big Fun Show is our newest show at Big Fork Theatre. A cast of brilliant improvisers doing what we do best - good funny improv!

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.

Cage Match: Improvised Comedy Showdown
May 8
Cage Match: Improvised Comedy Showdown

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.

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.

Ruby Rocket, Private Detective
May 9
Ruby Rocket, Private Detective

Ruby Rocket is an intoxicating, intoxicated private eye who always gets her man. Except, of course, when she doesn’t. In this hilarious improvised show, Stacey Hallal plays Ruby, weaving vivid noir storytelling and physical comedy with Jon Timm’s innovative multimedia imagery. Featuring a guest cast of Brisbane’s top improvisers. Not to be missed!

Stacey Hallal and Jon Timm have toured Ruby Ruby across North America and Europe to packed houses and amazed audiences. The character of Ruby Rocket also appears in comic book, cartoon, and podcast form. To follow the adventures of Ruby, visit rubyrocketpi.com.

Thank God You’re Queer
May 9
Thank God You’re Queer

Part of the 2025 Brisbane Comedy Festival. This event is playing at the Brisbane Powerhouse in New Farm.

WALK THROUGH THE RAINBOW DOOR!

Thank God You’re Queer is a fabulous gay twist on Australia’s most successful improvised show.

Join Brisbane’s finest LGBTQI+ improvisers as they bring to life a kaleidoscope of scenes inspired by the real-life queer experiences of the audience. But there is a twist: each scene features a special guest improviser, all of whom may be exploring queer territory for the first time. That’s right, all our guests are straight. They are out of their depth and just want to be good allies, will they make it through unscathed – probably not.

This is a joyous celebration of queer life that gleefully turns heteronormativity on its head, without ever losing its sense of playfulness.

Saturday Night Comedy: Wer Ya From & Women's Show
May 10
Saturday Night Comedy: Wer Ya From & Women's Show

Back to back killer shows for your Saturday night!

Wer Ya From is an improvised comedy show based on hilarious true stories of heritage and culture, performed by Big Fork Theatre's best multicultural performers. They are brilliant! Come see why Wer Ya From packs out Big Fork Theatre ever show.

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.

Sunday Stand Up - Comedy Show
May 11
Sunday Stand Up - Comedy Show

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.

Cage Match: Improvised Comedy Showdown
May 15
Cage Match: Improvised Comedy Showdown

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.

The Tony’s In Concert: A Retrospective
May 16
The Tony’s In Concert: A Retrospective

Musical comedy at it's very best!

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim, Lin Manuel-Miranda. All great musical creators with one thing in common… they can’t hold a candle to The Tony’s. Join three of the greatest, most talented (and most delusional) musical theatre auteurs of our time, all conveniently named Tony as they take you on a fully improvised journey through their greatest hits and their decades spanning partnership… just don’t mention Phantom of the Opera.