Are you ready for a night of laughs and good company?
Come join us at Wollongong Comedy, where we provide a welcoming and entertaining experience for all.
Our monthly shows will feature the cream of the Australian Comedy scene, with some of the highest profile comedy names in the country coming to perform in Wollongong's hottest live venue.
All comedy shows are 18+ years.
2025 Dates -
SPECIAL EVENTS
October - 11
November - 8
9 October - Ben Knight 'The Parent Teacher Interview' - SOLD OUT
26 September - Daniel Muggleton 'You may be white, I may be crazy'
21 November - Wil Anderson 'Whatchu talkin' 'bout Wil?'
22 November - Wil Anderson 'Whatchu talkin' 'bout Wil?' - SOLD OUT
13 December - Monty Franklin 'Is that your mate?' World Tour
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DATE: Saturday 11 October 2025
TIME: Doors open 7.30pm | Show : 8pm
COST: $39.27pp
Shows over 18 only!
Chris Ryan is a journalist, a Mum and a comedian, Chris Ryan’s take on everything from passive aggressive co-workers to romance earned her a Best Newcomer at the Sydney Comedy Festival in 2019 and a Best Newcomer Nomination at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2021.
Chris’s stand up is based on her life and the people in it, making it real and relatable, delivered in her signature understated, laconic style. If you’re looking for a song and dance, you’re not getting it.
“Chris was in total control from the moment she hit the stage, a comedian with a unique outlook and broad appeal.”
Justin Hamilton, Head Writer Show Me the Movie (Network Ten)
David Smiedt has been delighting audiences around the country and overseas with his brand of warm inclusive comedy for over 12 years and is now one of Australia's finest comedian MC's and corporate performers. David is a regular on television shows such as Mornings with Kerri-Ann Sunrise, The Today Show, Ready Steady Cook and having appeared on Stand Up Australia he is also the author of six humorous books.
He also is a writer for a wide range of magazines including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Women's Health, Body & Soul and Vogue where he specialises in a humorous take on style health trends and celebrity profiles. Aside from being the current grooming editor for GQ magazine he is the only journalist in Australian publishing history to be in concurrent issues of lads-mag Ralph and Your Garden.
David opened for Joan Rivers during her Sydney theatre run Mark Watson's Sydney festival season and Martin Short's Melbourne Crown Casino performances.
Jen Carnovale has traveled from quaint bookstores in Canberra to Latvian kind-of scary warehouses for stand up. She has toured across the UK, Australia, all the good looking parts of Europe and tasty parts of Asia, she has performed for Comedy Central Australia, Frocking Hilarious for Action Aid, opened for Doug Stanhope, a regular guest on ABC iviews Bookish and was invited to perform with All Together Now for Comedy Vs Racism.
Andy High is a 64 year old pommy comedian from the NSW south coast who will drive up to 10 hours to tell the tale of how his 20 year old self has not yet caught up with the reflection in his bathroom mirror. Andy came to Australia in 1988 as a bicentennial gift from the Queen.
Runner up in RAW Wollongong 2019
State finalist 2023
Australia's Funniest Boomer finalist and with his first Melbourne Comedy Festival show under his belt he's still trying to work out just exactly who he is!
SOLD OUT
'THE PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEW'
DATE: Thursday 9 October 2025 - SOLD OUT
TIME: Doors open 7.30pm | Show : 8pm
COST: $35pp
Shows over 18 only!
Ever wondered what teachers really think about you, your kids and the education system?
Come along to The Parent Teacher Night and enjoy an hour of brutally honest comedy, hosted by teacher Ben Knight, to find out!
Ben is a Queensland teacher who made the move to Melbourne ten years ago to pursue comedy and acting. He has sold out his past 6 Melbourne International Comedy Festival runs and he has landed TV roles in Upper Middle Bogan, The Warriors, Offspring and Bay of Fires to name a few. Ben most recently starred in The Fall Guy starring alongside Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
Show Contains Adult Themes and Coarse Language.
Heath Franklin's Chopper -
'THE LAST HARD B*RSTARD ON EARTH'
DATE: Friday 28 November 2025
TIME: Doors open 7.30pm | Show : 8pm
COST: $45 (includes booking fee) + trans fee
Concession price : $42 ( includes booking fee) + trans fee
Group price 6+ : $40 ( includes booking fee) + trans fee
Shows over 18 only!
Strap in, Wollongong! Chopper’s comedy festival smash hit is coming for one night only at the Builder's Club!
Winner Best Comedy Weekly Award 2014 & 2018 Perth FRINGE WORLD
Winner Piece of Wood Award 2018 Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The year is 2030. Humanity is all but wiped out and there is only one man who can save us.
For too long, we thought that things like 'gentle parenting', 'love languages' and 'paper straws’ were a good idea... until self-diagnosing whingers and 37 types of milk destroyed civilisation...
Then, like a glorious moustachioed phoenix, a hard bastard arose from the ashes to restart humankind.
‘If Heath is Clark Kent and his Chopper persona is Superman, then it is good to look up in the sky once again and see not a bird, not a plane, but a super comedian.’ Scenestr
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WIL ANDERSON
WHATCHU TALKIN' 'BOUT WIL'
DATE: 22 November 2025 - SOLD OUT
NEW SHOW ADDED - 21 November
TIME: Doors open 7.30pm | Show : 8pm
COST: $45pp
Shows over 18 only!
In 2025 Wil Anderson is bringing his completely improvised shows to comedy clubs and festivals around the country. Every night will be a completely different show, made for- and with- the people in the room only. Never to be recorded. Never to be repeated.
Witness one of the fastest comedic minds of his generation for a unique, never to be repeated experience.
BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WILL SELL OUT TOO QUICKLY.
Host of Gruen, Question Everything and podcasts Wilosophy and TOFOP, WIL ANDERSON is a six-time Melbourne Comedy Festival People’s Choice and Helpmann Award winner.
“Lightning in a bottle.” ★★★★½ The Sydney Morning Herald
“Goodwill and good jokes.” ★★★★½ Chortle
“Wil Anderson is a master at finding humanity in the strangest things.” ★★★★ Time Out
“Unmatched and relentlessly fun to witness.” ★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
“Ever-slick, Anderson’s experience shows throughout, from the easy to-and-fro with the crowd to the unlabored structure that subtly underpins the 70 minutes, sending the audience out into the Melbourne streets fully satisfied.” Chortle
“Savage intelligence and rapid-fire riffing, Wil Anderson confronts humanity head-on.” Time Out
“An absolute comedy masterclass. Even the unscripted crowd work is pure bliss.” Melbourne Lyf
MONTY FRANKLIN -
'IS THAT YOUR MATE' 2025 WORLD TOUR
DATE: 13 December 2025
TIME: Doors open 7pm | Show : 7.30pm
COST: $50pp
Shows over 18 only!
After sell out shows across Australia, America and Europe in 2024 with the ‘Yeah Nah’ Tour, Monty Franklin returns in 2025 with a brand new show, ‘Is That Your Mate’.
Coming to over 70 cities in the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Asia, New Zealand and Australia in his biggest tour yet.
Monty Franklin is an Australian born stand-up comedian and actor based in Los Angeles. He has toured over 40 states of the US, performing to over 1 million Americans.
Monty also tours with Rob Schneider, Joe Rogan and John Cleese.
Monty’s online videos pointing out the ‘perils’ of being an Australian living in America have massed over 1 billion views.
Monty was on Ep #1794 of The Joe Rogan Experience and is currently appearing in 'Real Rob' on NETFLIX, seasons 1 & 2. He has had roles on 'New Girl' - FOX, 'Becoming Bond' - Hulu.
Monty performs in Los Angeles as a regular at the The Improv Comedy Clubs, The Laugh Factory and he was the first Australian to have their name added to the wall of the The Comedy Store in Hollywood.
Monty is currently set to star in his first feature film that he co-wrote with Rob Schneider and John Cleese, THE GREAT EMU WAR, filming in Australia in 2026.
Also starring Schneider, Cleese, Rhys Darby and Jim Jefferies.
‘Go see this man from DOWNUNDER, he’s absolutely killing it UP OVER - Rob Schneider ’The only MONTY worthy of attaching a PYTHON to’ - John Cleese