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!
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Every Thursday, the best indie improv teams face off against each other in the ultimate comedy showdown - Cage Match!!!
Each week, the reigning Cage Match champions are challenged by a new team. Both teams get 15 minutes to wow the audience, who pick the winner. This is high octane laugh out loud improv comedy.
Opening the show this week is Raised By Wolves - Brisbane's best improv group are dropping in for a red hot improv set.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
A WIP show from one of Australia's brightest comedy stars!
Kirsty Webeck's getting ready for a huge 2027 tour and she's back in Brisbane for one night only testing some of her new jokes. Come down to see her working stuff out on the fly. Will her new jokes be genius or ready for the bin? Probably a combination of both but we'll have a blast anyway! As seen on Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Question Everything and The Oxfam Gala.
Brisbane's best sketch comedy!
Our students have been working really hard writing and rehearsing a sketch show from scratch, and now they get to perform the show as their final graduation!
Today's graduation show features John's Writers Room 2 students.
Calling on friends, family, partners, work colleagues, and anyone else - come support this new crop of students as they take their sketch comedy journey to the next level.
Featuring Brisbane's newest sketch comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Big Fun Show headlines this banging show. It's exactly how it sounds - big and fun! This show takes us back to what we do best, just good funny improv.
Opening is Women's Show - one of our best shows. Featuring an amazing cast of improvisers, they're a little bit wild, a little bit cheeky, and always deliver killer comedy. They'll have you howling with laughter.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane’s best improv comedy!
Swoon, laugh, and cringe in all the right places! Fall in love with the awkward meet-cutes, cheesy puns, and heart-melting moments in this romantic comedy made up entirely on the spot!
See Brisbane’s funniest and sweetest improvisers stumble, blush, and humour their way to give you butterflies.
Brisbane's best open mic comedy!
Featuring the best and brightest up and coming comedians from Brisbane and beyond, plus you never know who might drop in. Cold drinks and a relaxed vibe - you'll be howling with laughter.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Every Thursday, the best indie improv teams face off against each other in the ultimate comedy showdown - Cage Match!!!
Each week, the reigning Cage Match champions are challenged by a new team. Both teams get 15 minutes to wow the audience, who pick the winner. This is high octane laugh out loud improv comedy.
Opening the show this week is the Musical Mixer - musical improv comedy show featuring Brisbane's best musical improvisers.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Featuring Brisbane's only four comedians!
John Comedy is a tight-knit group of Brisbane's only four comedians*, putting their best game into every scene.
They take your dumb thoughts and turn them into hilarious scenes all created on the spot before your beautiful eyes. Gosh, did we mention how beautiful your eyes are?
Each performance is like your favourite sketch show, except there is no script to fall back on. Think of shows like Portlandia - but done completely on the fly!
This 6 times cage match winning ensemble and 2025 Big Fork Comedy Festival performers focus on finding organic games in their scenes, John Comedy weaves together hilarious scenes as they explore, and often ruin, their character's worlds. John Comedy, Game on!
(*excluding Rove McManus)
TICKETS $20 ONLINE | $25 ON DOOR
PowerPoint comedy by the dumbest smart people you’ve ever seen!
The laser is a laser pointer - it’s a PowerPoint show. Nothing better than a little late night PP! 6 of the finest (read: most fine) minds in Brisbane bring you stuff they thought was worth sharing with the class.
Hosted by Jaimeson Gilders (Tales From Brisgard) and Matt Nunn (Weird Show), this is an hour of powerpoint comedy by the dumbest smart people (and one genuinely smart person) you’ve ever seen. Knowledge will be gained. Hope will be born. Questions will be answered without ever being asked. You will wonder if they learned this stuff at school and you will quickly conclude no, they did not (again, except for one genuinely well educated person).
Will the comedians make you laugh, learn and love? Or will they think they’re in a video game and try to romance the clicker? Impossible to know without buying a ticket.
EPILEPSY WARNING - this show has flashing lights
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Mini Musical headlines this banging show. Our brand new show sees Brisbane's best up and coming musical improvisers perform a one act musical made up entirely on the spot. It will be dynamite!
Opening the show is Wer Ya From. Our multicultural show. An improvised comedy show based on hilarious true stories of heritage and culture, performed by the best multicultural performers. They are brilliant!
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best sketch comedy!
One magical night in 2018, Cheeky Moon staged a sold-out sketch show never to be repeated — until now.
This October for ONE NIGHT ONLY, Claire and Alastair will reprise a performance described as “brilliantly clever” by Brisbane Stage, “hilarious” by scenestr, and “the Citizen Kane of sketch comedy” by the blurb you are currently reading.
Newly remixed and remastered, it’s thrumpteen tales of inept secret agents, Wall Street chimneysweeps, bean-based conjuring tricks, pterodactyls, mistress stains, heart-rending personal stakes and LIVE BEES!
Special guests to be announced when Rhys checks his messages.
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Our Improv students have been working hard learning all the basics of improv comedy, and now they get to showcase these new skills in a final graduation show!
There is 1 improv class graduating today:
Foundations 1: Improv Fundamentals (Chris’ Class)
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.
Featuring Brisbane's newest improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
MELT FESTIVAL 2026
Chris McAllister was accused of being a cult leader for a while.
Years later, they created the viral trans allyship campaign #ICanTell.
What happened in between? (Apart from enough time passing to be able to share what happened).
It's a story that was too compelling not to share.
And if your reputation exists in other people’s heads, maybe you have accidentally started a cult.
MELT FESTIVAL 2026
Brisbane's only dedicated improv comedy theatre is bringing their side-splitting show to MELT!
Featuring top LGBTQI+ improvisors, every hilarious moment is made up on the spot. Prepare for a night full of spontaneous laughter and unforgettable fun with some of Brisbane's best talent. Don’t miss out on this unique, vibrant, and utterly entertaining experience. Come and laugh the night away with the best of Brisbane's improv comedy scene!
MELT FESTIVAL 2026
Brisbane's only dedicated improv comedy theatre is bringing their side-splitting show to MELT!
Featuring top LGBTQI+ improvisors, every hilarious moment is made up on the spot. Prepare for a night full of spontaneous laughter and unforgettable fun with some of Brisbane's best talent. Don’t miss out on this unique, vibrant, and utterly entertaining experience. Come and laugh the night away with the best of Brisbane's improv comedy scene!