NZ INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL
Get your giggle on, the NZ international Comedy Festival is taking over this May!
The NZ International Comedy Festival is an annual highlight on Aotearoa’s arts calendar, and with almost 20 shows over three weeks here at BATS there is something sure to tickle everyone's funny bone.
Check out the full line up of Comedy Fest shows we have coming to BATS below.
WEEK THREE: 21 - 25 May
I'M A REFUGEE...GET ME OUT OF HERE!
PRESENTED BY SAMUEL GEBRESELASSIE
In 1980 Sam’s parents escaped a war-torn Ethiopia for a Sudanese refugee camp. Then in 1998, when Sam was just a child, they found themselves all the way in New Zealand thanks to the UN’s resettlement program.
Today Sam’s one of Australia’s rising comedy stars, a multi-award-winning comedian and producer making his way across the ditch to share his hilariously unique origin story.
THE BUTT BROTHERS
PRESENTED BY FIN & DANNY
Work got you down? Trouble with the s/o? Feel like you have a hole that only two boys can fill?
Come see The Butt Brothers! New Zealand's greatest comical clean-up crew!
They'll give you an hour of comedy that'll leave your cheeks sore.
PUKA
PRESENTED BY VIKI MOANANU
"Fat, lazy, aggressive and rude". And that was just from Viki's bus driver! Viki Moananu reflects on his life choices and whether or not he would be stuffing a bus driver's body into an unmarked van if his sister didn't give him his nickname Puka.
A debut comedy solo hour about queerness, destiny and arguing with your siblings.
POPROX PRESENTS: FARCE ONION
PRESENTED BY POPROX
Murder, mystery, and hot improvisers in three-piece suits, what more could you want?
Farce Onion is an improvised comedy by one of Wellington's top improv companies PopRox. With a rotating cast and guest players to boot, this detective parody is sure to have you hooked from the get-go. All that's left now is to figure out who did it?
THANK YOU DRIVER
PRESENTED BY DAN BOERMAN
Dan is recently single, and finally getting therapy. He's not there to find a solution - he just wants to tell a stranger that he doesn't plan on changing.
Join bright-eyed millennial Dan Boerman on a journey across his non-linear life, in the comedy and chaos of a high-energy Urban Jesus, with his incomparable hour coined 'hilarious' and 'unhinged'.
Goth 2 a Flame
Dare to enter the dark minds of New Zealand’s 666’s darkest goth band. Darkwave druid Richard Nothing (Jemaine Clement) and Coldwave bassist Clown Of Thornz (Jonny Brugh) conjoin by osmosis to bring you a funeral of songs to send you to a dark place.
