Shows at Big Fork
Brisbane’s number 1 destination for improv and sketch comedy.
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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 La Ronde - a character driven improv show featuring our most experienced and newest improvisers.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
One improvised show. Two sassy Aunties. Infinite judgement.
The Asian Aunties think they know exactly what’s best for you — and honestly, they’re shocked you’ve survived this long without their guidance.
Aunty Rani from Sri Lanka (Himali Ratnayake) and Aunty Maria from the Philippines (Janette McBride) are shimmying in with their signature blend of brutal honesty, invaluable wisdom, and unstoppable Aunty energy that can both bless you and roast you in the same breath.
Write down your problems and put them in the rice cooker, so the Aunties can serve you their most generous advice. They’ll then improvise scenes inspired by your juicy dilemmas.
The Asian Aunties are an improv comedy duo that was part of the sold out BrisAsia Comedy Gala at the Brisbane Powerhouse, they had a sold out show in Melbourne and a full house in Sydney, and they are the reigning champs in Big Fork Theatre's Cage Match with their 12-week winning streak.
Audience members may be judged by the Aunties, but will not be brought on stage (unless you really want to), so you can enjoy the chaos from the comfort of your seats.
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Come see Brisbane's funniest and most endearing disabled and chronically ill improvisers do funny make-em-ups on stage for your entertainment.
We know better than most that laughter isn't actually the best medicine, but it sure can ease the load of moving through a world that wasn't built for you.
Diagnonsense is scheduled at an early evening showtime to help you manage your spoons. Head home early if you're spent or hang around for more hilarious comedy with Big Fork Theatre's regular Saturday Night Comedy programming.
Big Fork Theatre is a fully accessible venue. The corner entrance to the building is stair-free, there's an elevator that will bring you up to the second floor and the flexible seating in our theatre can be adapted to accommodate any needs. Strobe lighting will never be used in a Diagnonsense show.
Personal accommodations (headphones, stimming, etc) are welcome, we just ask that you respect the performers' needs and limit talking/vocal expression while the cast is performing. Laughing is encouraged of course! Please reach out of you have any particular accessibility needs you'd like accommodated. We can't promise everything will be possible but we'll always try.
Diagnonsense is brought to you by a Little Spoons, a group of Big Fork Theatre community members living with disability and chronic illness. Through these shows, we hope to grow the visible representation of disability and chronic illness on Brisbane performing arts and comedy stages. In the process we might just happen to break down some stigmas, challenge some internalised ableism and encourage more inclusive practices across the arts. But no pressure!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Queer Show headlines this banging show. One of our most popular shows, featuring the best LGBTQIA+ comedians. They absolutely tear the stage apart every time they perform, leaving the audience crying with laughter.
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!
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best sketch comedy!
The best sketch comedians and writers test a brand new hour of experimental sketch comedy. Big ideas, wild characters and situations, and hilarious parody are all on the cards for this hour of comedy mayhem. Witness as sketches soar into comedy legend status, while others crash and burn in a blaze of glory – either way, you’ll be having a great time.
Featuring Brisbane's best sketch comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best free improv comedy show!
The Improv Comedy Jam Show is an improvised comedy showcase extravaganza! The stage is set for a high-stakes collision of rising stars and seasoned pros. Together, they weave spontaneous prompts into pure comedic improvised wildfire.
Witness lightning in a bottle as the quick-thinking comedians bring the house down in totally made-up-on the-spot scenes of hilarity.
FREE EVENT - GRAB YOUR FREE TICKET NOW
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 Montage - a free-flowing improv show featuring our most experienced and newest improvisers.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
We are on the hunt to crown Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser.
Special prizes and glory awaits the improviser that can make it through the Heats unscathed and come out on top in the Grand Final.
This competition will have it all: improv games, hilarious scenes and challenges, musical comedy, special guests, expert judges, and you cheering for your favourite improviser.
Grab your tickets and come support Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser. This will be fun!
Heat 1 – Friday 18 September 7pm
Heat 2 – Friday 25 September 7pm
Heat 3 – Sunday 27 September 7pm
Heat 4 – Friday 2 October 7pm
Grand Final – Friday 9 October 7pm
Featuring Brisbane’s best newest improvisers.
If you are interested in competing in Brisbane's Best Newest Improviser, please contact chris@bigforktheatre.com
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
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 are 3 improv classes graduating today:
Foundations 1: Improv Fundamentals (Imogen's class)
Foundations 2: The Scene (Chris' class)
Foundations 3: Characters (John's 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
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
No Loose Threads headlines this banging show. Our newest show is the most famous improv format in the world, The Harold. 3 beats of huge characters, hilarious scenes and genius heightening. Making absolute comedy gold!
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
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 $15 ONLINE | $20 ON DOOR
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
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
We are on the hunt to crown Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser.
Special prizes and glory awaits the improviser that can make it through the Heats unscathed and come out on top in the Grand Final.
This competition will have it all: improv games, hilarious scenes and challenges, musical comedy, special guests, expert judges, and you cheering for your favourite improviser.
Grab your tickets and come support Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser. This will be fun!
Heat 1 – Friday 18 September 7pm
Heat 2 – Friday 25 September 7pm
Heat 3 – Sunday 27 September 7pm
Heat 4 – Friday 2 October 7pm
Grand Final – Friday 9 October 7pm
Featuring Brisbane’s best newest improvisers.
If you are interested in competing in Brisbane's Best Newest Improviser, please contact chris@bigforktheatre.com
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Featuring some of Brisbane’s funniest comedians, Big Fork’s Big Fun Showcase is exactly what make’s Big Fork Theatre Brisbane’s home of improv comedy! Expect a night of laughs, excitement and thrills as you sit on the edge of your seat wondering ‘was that really unscripted?’ Trust us – you couldn’t write this if you tried.
In its 11th year of making audiences laugh and teaching the next generation of comedians, Big Fork Theatre is a Brisbane Institution. This Showcase shows off our purpose built theatre and what makes us one of Brisbane’s best nights out! Featuring funny scenes, musical improv, special guests and more, it’s an event not be missed.
If you are a fan of Dropout TV, Who’s Line is it Anyway? or Thank God You’re Here, this is your gateway show to more hilarious nights at Big Fork Theatre, where every show is hilarious and completely unique.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
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 are 2 improv classes graduating today:
Foundations 1: Improv Fundamentals (Ben's class)
Foundations 4: Group Mind (Cameron's 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
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
We are on the hunt to crown Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser.
Special prizes and glory awaits the improviser that can make it through the Heats unscathed and come out on top in the Grand Final.
This competition will have it all: improv games, hilarious scenes and challenges, musical comedy, special guests, expert judges, and you cheering for your favourite improviser.
Grab your tickets and come support Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser. This will be fun!
Heat 1 – Friday 18 September 7pm
Heat 2 – Friday 25 September 7pm
Heat 3 – Sunday 27 September 7pm
Heat 4 – Friday 2 October 7pm
Grand Final – Friday 9 October 7pm
Featuring Brisbane’s best newest improvisers.
If you are interested in competing in Brisbane's Best Newest Improviser, please contact chris@bigforktheatre.com
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 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 Mixer - several short comedy scenes featuring our most experienced and newest improvisers.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
We are on the hunt to crown Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser.
Special prizes and glory awaits the improviser that can make it through the Heats unscathed and come out on top in the Grand Final.
This competition will have it all: improv games, hilarious scenes and challenges, musical comedy, special guests, expert judges, and you cheering for your favourite improviser.
Grab your tickets and come support Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser. This will be fun!
Heat 1 – Friday 18 September 7pm
Heat 2 – Friday 25 September 7pm
Heat 3 – Sunday 27 September 7pm
Heat 4 – Friday 2 October 7pm
Grand Final – Friday 9 October 7pm
Featuring Brisbane’s best newest improvisers.
If you are interested in competing in Brisbane's Best Newest Improviser, please contact chris@bigforktheatre.com
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Join us for a brilliant night of musical comedy. The Tuning Forks will perform an entire Broadway-style musical, made up completely on the spot.
Watch this amazing ensemble sing, dance and joke through the entire show. They will leave you in stitches and also a little bit gobsmacked - they're world-class!
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
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 La Ronde - a character driven improv show featuring our most experienced and newest improvisers.
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
We are on the hunt to crown Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser.
Special prizes and glory awaits the improviser that can make it through the Heats unscathed and come out on top in the Grand Final.
This competition will have it all: improv games, hilarious scenes and challenges, musical comedy, special guests, expert judges, and you cheering for your favourite improviser.
Grab your tickets and come support Brisbane’s Best Newest Improviser. This will be fun!
Heat 1 – Friday 18 September 7pm
Heat 2 – Friday 25 September 7pm
Heat 3 – Sunday 27 September 7pm
Heat 4 – Friday 2 October 7pm
Grand Final – Friday 9 October 7pm
Featuring Brisbane’s best newest improvisers.
If you are interested in competing in Brisbane's Best Newest Improviser, please contact chris@bigforktheatre.com
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best sketch comedy!
The best sketch comedians and writers test a brand new hour of experimental sketch comedy. Big ideas, wild characters and situations, and hilarious parody are all on the cards for this hour of comedy mayhem. Witness as sketches soar into comedy legend status, while others crash and burn in a blaze of glory – either way, you’ll be having a great time.
Featuring Brisbane's best sketch comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Come see Brisbane's funniest and most endearing disabled and chronically ill improvisers do funny make-em-ups on stage for your entertainment.
We know better than most that laughter isn't actually the best medicine, but it sure can ease the load of moving through a world that wasn't built for you.
Diagnonsense is scheduled at an early evening showtime to help you manage your spoons. Head home early if you're spent or hang around for more hilarious comedy with Big Fork Theatre's regular Saturday Night Comedy programming.
Big Fork Theatre is a fully accessible venue. The corner entrance to the building is stair-free, there's an elevator that will bring you up to the second floor and the flexible seating in our theatre can be adapted to accommodate any needs. Strobe lighting will never be used in a Diagnonsense show.
Personal accommodations (headphones, stimming, etc) are welcome, we just ask that you respect the performers' needs and limit talking/vocal expression while the cast is performing. Laughing is encouraged of course! Please reach out of you have any particular accessibility needs you'd like accommodated. We can't promise everything will be possible but we'll always try.
Diagnonsense is brought to you by a Little Spoons, a group of Big Fork Theatre community members living with disability and chronic illness. Through these shows, we hope to grow the visible representation of disability and chronic illness on Brisbane performing arts and comedy stages. In the process we might just happen to break down some stigmas, challenge some internalised ableism and encourage more inclusive practices across the arts. But no pressure!
TICKETS ARE ONLY $10 ONLINE | $15 ON THE DOOR
Brisbane's best improv comedy!
Big Fork Directors & Friends headline this banging show. The comedians that run our comedy club are coming to play AND they're bringing along their favourite performers who are also their best friends (probably). This will be wild, loose and so much fun - strap in!
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!
Featuring Brisbane's best improv comedians.
TICKETS ARE ONLY $20 ONLINE | $25 ON THE DOOR
The songs are made up. The drama is inevitable. The girl group is completely out of control.
Are you ready to spice up your life?
Girl Band is an adults-only improvised comedy concert serving big vocals, bigger personalities, filthy pop bangers and absolutely unnecessary amounts of drama.
Inspired by the iconic girl groups of the ’90s and 2000s — think Spice Girls, TLC, Destiny’s Child and a generous dose of Pussycat Dolls — some of Brisbane’s funniest musical improvisers take to the stage as the greatest girl band that never existed.
With a live band, outrageous costumes and absolutely nothing planned, every song, scandal, breakup, comeback and deeply questionable creative decision is invented on the spot.
Expect catchy choruses, sexy choreography, ridiculous harmonies, dirty jokes, chaotic revelations and entirely made-up pop hits you’ll somehow be singing by the end of the night.
Come ready to laugh, dance in your seat, sing along and get a little bit feral.
Perfect for girls’ nights, hens’ nights, date nights and anyone who believes a night out could benefit from more pop music, more chaos and significantly less dignity.
For the girls, the gays, the theys — and the men brave enough to come along for the ride.
It’s loud. It’s ridiculous. It’s raunchy.
It’s Girl Band.
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 5: Finding The Funny (Taylor's 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
Brisbane's best free improv comedy show!
The Improv Comedy Jam Show is an improvised comedy showcase extravaganza! The stage is set for a high-stakes collision of rising stars and seasoned pros. Together, they weave spontaneous prompts into pure comedic improvised wildfire.
Witness lightning in a bottle as the quick-thinking comedians bring the house down in totally made-up-on the-spot scenes of hilarity.
FREE EVENT - GRAB YOUR FREE TICKET NOW
Have a laugh and support a good cause!
Sloth & Disorder is an open-mic comedy night with an improv twist, presented by LTDM Doers at Big Fork Theatre.
Expect fresh stand-up from Doers comics, new material, emerging voices and a few moments that cannot be rehearsed. The host has a twist planned for the night—one that will keep the performers on their toes and bring an extra layer of spontaneity to the show.
The details are intentionally under wraps. The comics will find out on the night.
Come along to support people brave enough to step up to the mic, enjoy a relaxed night of local comedy, and be part of a good cause.
All proceeds from this event will go to the Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund for Nepal.
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.