NZ COMEDY FEST 2026
Get your giggle on, the NZ international Comedy Festival is taking over this May!
Browse our full Comedy Fest lineup below and grab your tickets before they're gone.
week one : 6 - 9 MAY
F^cking ACE
AUSTIN HARRISON
Austin Harrison doesn't give f***...literally! Can comedy be funny without a sex drive?
Potential Energy
Neil Thornton
Neil Thornton has a problem: despite being a successful educator and award-winning comedian, the voices in his head still say, “You’re wasting your potential!”
Artificial Infidelity...
Annie Guo
Annie spent many nights during 2025 in a sci-fi universe slaying monsters with her artificial video-game boyfriends: a merman, a space gangster and a pilot.
T.E.M.U Joke Factory
He Huang
Welcome aboard the production line at the T.E.M.U Joke Factory!
I Wish I Could Come Out Of My Shell
Felicity Ward
Felicity Ward is coming out of her shell, and she’s been doing just fine. Divorce. Bisexuality. The Paso Doble. It’s been QUITE the year.
week one : 12 - 16 MAY
Renaissance Man
Joel Vinsen
Renaissance man (noun): a person with many “talents” or areas of “knowledge.”
Six Figure Clown
Sarah Tuck
This is for anyone who’s ever come out, burned out, or had a hard day in policy.
APHRODITE
Elouise Eftos
t’s time to enter Aphrodite’s discotheque, where the Goddess of Love takes you through a Studio 54/Mount Olympus fever dream and she can hopefully teach all of us a thing or two about the ultimate trophy "love" (if it even exists).
Amalgamation
Hot department
Dangerously funny and deliriously sexy: sketch comedy that’s as smart as it is filthy.
Peekaboo!
Samantha Hannah
Do you remember the last time you pissed yourself laughing at someone shouting “Peekaboo!”?
Skuxx Cowboys get lonely sometimes too
Kipling DC
Kipling DC is not just a Skuxx, he’s a Skuxx Cowboy.
Fuq Boiz: The Greatest Showboiz
Hamish Parkinson and Ryan Richards
The hot daddies of chuckles, Hamish Parkinson and Ryan Richards, are back!
Orin Performs Performative Stand-Up Comedy
Kipling DC
In Orin Performs Performative Stand-Up Comedy, Orin – the performer – launches hairlessly into the world of alternative stand-up.
Pear Tree
Sashi Perera
Sashi's family name - Perera - means pear tree in Portuguese. It's a common name in Sri Lanka where Sashi was born but never lived.
week one : 19 - 23 MAY
I'm (Still) Happy For You
Angella Dravid
Fresh off the back of her Melbourne run, Angella brings back her 2025 Fred award winning show.
Driving me crazy
Mo Munn and Q Potts
Driving Me Crazy is a no-brakes comedy collision starring real-life married comedy couple Mo Munn and Q Potts.
You Wouldn't Think
Tama Alexander
We all have secrets… Things best kept quiet… Tama Alexander is no stranger to hiding from his embarrassing life.
Bird of the Year
Brynley Stent
In 2021, the pekapeka-tou-roa (long-tailed bat) won New Zealand’s Bird of the Year – despite being a mammal, and not at all a bird.
As If You Never Left
Gabby Anderson
Gabby thought that moving overseas in her thirties would be the start of her main-character era.
swan
Elf Lyons
The show involves ballet, violence, wrestling, nudity, an evil owl, magic, 45 bras and a very loose grasp of the French language.
SWIPSWOP
Johanna Cosgrove
"Like Freaky Friday, but fucked! Like Stars in their Eyes sans celebrities!"
Comic Mans - How To Become Self-Aware Before AI Does
Mike Fowler
Are you a robot? Yeah, but I'm working on it…
Goblin Girls
Johanna Cosgrove
Auckland’s cult hit favourite sell-out sensation is BACK for every week of the NZ Comedy Festival.
