Every BATS show from the 2026 NZ International Comedy Festival, all in one place.
Renaissance man (noun): a person with many “talents” or areas of “knowledge.”
This is for anyone who’s ever come out, burned out, or had a hard day in policy.
Dangerously funny and deliriously sexy: sketch comedy that’s as smart as it is filthy.
Do you remember the last time you pissed yourself laughing at someone shouting “Peekaboo!”?
Kipling DC is not just a Skuxx, he’s a Skuxx Cowboy.
The hot daddies of chuckles, Hamish Parkinson and Ryan Richards, are back!
In Orin Performs Performative Stand-Up Comedy, Orin – the performer – launches hairlessly into the world of alternative stand-up.
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.
Fresh off the back of her Melbourne run, Angella brings back her 2025 Fred award winning show.
Driving Me Crazy is a no-brakes comedy collision starring real-life married comedy couple Mo Munn and Q Potts.
We all have secrets… Things best kept quiet… Tama Alexander is no stranger to hiding from his embarrassing life.
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.
Gabby thought that moving overseas in her thirties would be the start of her main-character era.
The show involves ballet, violence, wrestling, nudity, an evil owl, magic, 45 bras and a very loose grasp of the French language.
"Like Freaky Friday, but fucked! Like Stars in their Eyes sans celebrities!"
Are you a robot? Yeah, but I'm working on it…
Auckland’s cult hit favourite sell-out sensation is BACK for every week of the NZ Comedy Festival.
This play has everything! A revenge plot, family betrayal and … talking crocodiles?
Four young adults are the test subjects of a new housing experiment in which they must compete against each other in a series of games to secure an entry into the housing market.
What happens when bodies remember what words cannot say? Five lighthouses. Two bodies becoming water, stone, light. Come and experience it.
The Filipino son of NZ comedy is back with a funny and heartfelt new hour about ageing, unpacking your life and the panic of realising you’ve become the adult, whether you’re ready or not.