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Puppetry of the Penis Big Laugh Comedy Festival and A List Entertainment

Puppetry of the Penis

The Ancient Art of Gential Origami
The worlds most famous and strangest puppeteers are heading your way with their international smash hit show. Simon Morley and David Friend, the original creators of the show, will be performing in Australia for the first time...

Date: Thursday 15th March
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The Popular Mechanicals Big Laugh Comedy Festival

The Popular Mechanicals

by Keith Robinson, William Shakespeare and Tony Taylor

The tale of the fortunes and misfortunes of the troupe of eccentric rude jesters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream who get their shot at the big time performing at the...

Dates: 21st March - 25th March 2007
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The Delusionists Big Laugh Comedy Festival

The Delusionists

Comedy With No Illusions
Sketch Comedy is back at the 2007 Big Laugh Comedy Festival with the very best of the University Revues in one perfect package. A seamless, laugh a minute show, The Delusionists covers iPods, diabetes, magicians, Imperial...

Dates: 22nd March - 25th March 2007
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Ardal O'Hanlon Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Adrian Bohm

Ardal O'Hanlon

Don’t miss the star of ABC TV’s Father Ted and My Hero in a night of hilarious stand-up. This is a rare chance to see Ireland’s finest in the environment where he can truly shine – live on stage.

A brilliant...

Dates: 23rd March - 25th March 2007
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Corinne Grant Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Token Events

Corinne Grant

Have My Stuff
One gal’s quest to use her audience as therapy because she’s too cheap to pay a professional. The quick-witted star of ABC TV’s The Glass House, Corinne’s decided to do something about her hoarding problem…she’s giving...

Dates: 23rd March - 25th March 2007
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A Tribute to Danny Kaye Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Fletcher Pants Productions

A Tribute to Danny Kaye

with Russell Fletcher
Fall in love all over again with one of the most loved entertainers of all time, Danny Kaye, in the sold out smash hit of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2006. Experience the hilarious magic of the great entertainer in this...

Dates: 24th March - 25th March 2007
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Thank God It's Friday... On Saturday! Big Laugh Comedy Festival & 702 ABC Sydney

Thank God It's Friday... On Saturday!

Sydney's Favourie Radio Comedy
See Sydney’s favourite radio comedy, Richard Glover’s Thank God It’s Friday… on Saturday! Join guests Mikey Robins, Tommy Dean, Jean Kitson, Anthony Ackroyd and Phil Scott as they rip into the week's news and...

Date: Saturday 24th March
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Dylan Moran Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Adrian Bohm

Dylan Moran

at the Enmore Theatre
Don’t miss the surreal wit and eccentricity of Dylan Moran, the international star and creator of the foul-tempered, eccentric and drink-fuelled proprietor of ABC TV’s Black Books. The extraordinary Moran, a master of...

Date: Monday 26th March
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Sean Hughes Big Laugh Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Adrian Bohm

Sean Hughes

After five years at the top of UK television, the stand-up in Sean Hughes is ready to let loose again. The star of Sean’s Show is in top form for his comeback to the stand-up circuit. Don’t miss this cult comedy hero doing...

Dates: 27th March - 30th March 2007
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Men of Steel Big Laugh Comedy Festival

Men of Steel

The smash hit winner of the Festival Director’s Award from last year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival comes to Riverside!

Three mad comedy chefs animate two cookie cutters and a host of other familiar kitchen...

Dates: 27th March - 31st March 2007
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Danny Bhoy Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Fox in the Snow

Danny Bhoy

Scotland’s Danny Bhoy returns to Parramatta after phenomenal success performing in Australia, the UK, Canada and the States. With a razor-sharp wit and an outstanding gift for observational comedy Danny's shows are filled with...

Date: Tuesday 27th March
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The Pool Guy - Steve Daking Big Laugh Comedy Festival

The Pool Guy - Steve Daking

Comedy with Balls
Direct from London, the reigning professional 8 Ball Trickshot Champion of the World, Steve Daking is The Pool Guy. In a unique, highly original and funny evening that brings the pool hall into the theatre, Steve Daking’s...

Dates: 27th March - 1st April 2007
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Judith Lucy Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Token Events

Judith Lucy

See why the clever witty and acerbic Judith Lucy has become a household name. Lucy’s able to take any topic or situation and make it hilarious as she takes aim at everything including herself.

Her work on radio, television...

Date: Tuesday 27th March
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Four Hands Boogie Woogie Big Laugh Comedy Festival and BJ Planet Star Entertainment

Four Hands Boogie Woogie

Rags and Honky Tonk Too!
Two of the world’s greatest boogie piano players in an Australian premiere concert for The Big Laugh Comedy Festival that promises to lift the roof off the Riverside Theatre.

Jan Preston is Australia`s “Queen of Boogie...

Dates: 28th March - 29th March 2007
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Behind the Lines National Museum of Australia Canberra

Behind the Lines

The Year's Best Cartoons
From the National Museum of Australia’s collection, the wittiest funniest and most savage cartoons of 2006, from Alan Moir, Cathy Wilcox, Geoff Pryor, John Spooner, Bill Leak, Michael Fitzjames, Mark Knight, Warren Brown and many...

Dates: 28th March - 7th April 2007
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Akmal Big Laugh Comedy Festival and A List Entertainment

Akmal

with special guest Joel Ozborn
What a year Egyptian born Akmal has had! After 27 sold-out shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 21 sold-out shows at the Adelaide Fringe and innumerable other sell-outs around the nation – it doesn’t matter where...

Date: Wednesday 28th March
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Tunks for the Memories Tunks Productions

Tunks for the Memories

Wayne and Gary Tunks
Baldwin, Daddo, Tunks - the world is full of talented brothers. Join the Tunks Brothers, Wayne and Gary, as they take a madcap, semi-autobiographical journey into the world of stand-up, improvisation, skits and some really...

Dates: 28th March - 31st March 2007
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Life's a Lemon Big Laugh Comedy Festival

Life's a Lemon

Maggie Scott
A rock musical about the extra-ordinary life of Raylene Starr, working mum and girl next door (depending where you live……). Raylene, the alter ego of multi-award winning singer-comedian Maggie Scott, cordially invites you to join...

Date: Wednesday 28th March
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Alzheimers the Musical Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Prospect Productions

Alzheimers the Musical

A Night to Remember
with Lyn Shakespeare, Maureen Sherlock and Carole Yelland

Growing old disgracefully is the only way to go. The team that brought you the award-winning Tragic at their Age is back, older but no wiser. After a quick nana...

Dates: 28th March - 31st March 2007
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The Laugh Garage Comedy Club Big Laugh Comedy Festival

The Laugh Garage Comedy Club

Various Events
THE IMPORTS
The Accent is on comedy! An Englishman, an American and a Kiwi walk into a comedy club. The rest as they say. is funny. Buster Bailey (UK), Meisel (USA) and John Zeez (NZ)
The Laugh Garage
Thursday March...

Dates: 29th March - 31st March 2007
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Puppet Up! - Uncensored Big Laugh Comedy Festival & Melbourne International Comedy Festival

Puppet Up! - Uncensored

The Jim Henson Company
“It’s naughty, fast, funny and has freaky looking puppets …a Must”
Daily Telegraph

“Bawdy blast from Kermit’s evil cousins”
Sun-Herald

“A potty-mouthed, seat-of-the-pants Muppet Show for grown-ups”...

Dates: 30th March - 31st March 2007
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Off Work - A Brand New Show! Big Laugh Comedy Festival

Off Work - A Brand New Show!

The Laughing Samoans
After sell-out shows in New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific and North America, Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea’i are back with a brand new show ("The best yet" eventpolynesia.com). The Wellington-based comedy superstars...

Dates: 30th March - 31st March 2007
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The Laugh Boat Big Laugh Comedy Festival

The Laugh Boat

Rod Quantock - The Parramatta Pirate
The Laugh Boat was a hit of the 2006 Big Laugh Comedy Festival. Created by Rod Quantock it proved to be one of his most memorable and imaginative comedy events since the invention of his legendary Bus show many...

Date: Saturday 31st March
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SexDeathBowie Big Laugh Comedy Festival

SexDeathBowie

Geraldine Quinn
Three obsessions, three life-forces, three reasons to scream like a chimpanzee in public. Fresh from sell-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the...

Dates: 31st March - 1st April 2007
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Chopper Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Laughing Stock

Chopper

Harden the F**k Up Australia Tour
Join life-coach Chopper, star of Network Ten’s The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, for a criminally fun night of comedy, audience participation and a little bit of justified violence. Sometimes life seems pretty tough, and you...

Date: Sunday 1st April
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Coming Clean Big Laugh Comedy Festival

Coming Clean

A Criminally Funny Special Event
Always suspected that comedians are a shady lot? You’re right. Hosted by the squeaky clean (on a technicality) Rod Quantock, Coming Clean subpoenas Australia’s finest comedians, including Mark 'Bob Downe' Trevorrow, Jackie...

Date: Sunday 1st April
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Man With A Dominant Claw The Adventures of the

Man With A Dominant Claw

Big Laugh Comedy Festival and Laughing Stock
Born with a giant crab claw for a right arm, Jordan Raskopoulos, star of Network Ten’s The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, is considered a freak, an outcast, by the ones he loves.

Jordan with his best friend Dominic, a purple...

Date: Sunday 1st April
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