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ScatterGun weaves together poetry, movement and sound, with the voices of whānau from Tūhoe, in a celebration of the profound connection between the human body and te whenua ūkaipō (homeland).

ON MY SLEEVE is an ode to the hood, showcasing themes of HOOD, WOMEN, CULTURE, POWER & RECLAMATION through short vignettes.

Ngāti Whātua welcomes you on a theatrical journey of love, war, loss, and destiny through the eyes and mind of the eponymous ancestor, Apihai Te Kawau.

Scotland’s queen of comedy Fern Brady (Taskmaster UK, Live At The Apollo, Roast Battle, Russell Howard, The Last Leg) is back in New Zealand with a brand-new show.

"A performance revue like you'll never get in an office tower!" This cheeky number takes on the ridiculous and objectionable in the modern workplace in the form of the blues, rap, latin plainchant and more to see what meets expectations and what needs improvement.

Get ready to travel as 'Tiger Daughter' He Huang takes you on an hilarious global journey.

Hardout. Hardout to the Max. Double Hardout to the Triple Max. These are all synonyms for 'Hundies' - Jamaine Ross' new show. To be honest, he's not really a 'Hundies' kind of guy. He's actually pretty chill. But in this show, he promises to metaphorically 'Go Hundies' for you on a range of topics ‚ classism, racism, Countdown rebranding to Woolworths. All the important stuff. Oh yeah, he was also nominated for the Fred Award last year for best show, so he's actually quite good at it.

Honk honk honk! During her childhood, comedian Brynley Stent experienced a recurring night terror involving a repulsive goose that prevented her from crossing a ravine. To this day, she has never conquered it... until now.

Dr Joel is a massive nerd. Every day he wakes up balls deep in science, devoting his mullet covered brain to the next big discovery in the world of chemistry. And by chemistry we mean partying. The dude likes to party.

You may have seen him on TikTok or Taskmaster, but now's your chance to catch him live. Tom is bringing his unique brand of hilariously analytical stand-up with his new show Everything.

Hosted in 2024 by Ben Norris from the UK and featuring fellow Brit, Mark Simmons (""Master of one liners"" one4review ★★★★★ ) & Kirsty Webeck from Australia plus a special guest appearance by Ian Smith from England, nominated for Best Comedy Show at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.

Join one of New Zealand's most prolific stand up comedians Paul Douglas for 'The Early Midnight Special'.

He picked up a Best Show nomination at the 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and now Guy Williams is returning to NZ Intl. Comedy Festival with his brand new show, This Glass House Makes It Easy To See All The Cowards I’m Throwing Stones At.

Josh is a comedian with a cheeky flare who gets very passionate‚ and slightly aggressive! He takes the piss out of annoying Britneys and arrogant Gregs we all know. You can't help but laugh at his extra and boujee ways.

Melissa is a pre-award winning comedian who performed stand up for years in LA. Her latest comedy is about Riding the wave of becoming a mum, marriage and growing up in Sydney in the early 2000s. "It's a bit much"- Mel's Mum.

What would you do if you became the richest woman in the world overnight? Multi-award winning comedian Marea Colombo tells the tale of Angela Burdett-Coutts, the greatest Baroness you've never heard of. In a unique take on stand-up comedy, Baroness is a chaotic and critical analysis of the state of the world. Because you know what they say - mo' money, mo' problems.

"The smash hit of last year's festival is back for a second season!

A brand new line up of 10 comedians, competing to win the title of Sole Surblibor and $1000 cold hard cash.

Wilson Dixon is known to many as the greatest country singer Cripple Creek has ever produced - as well as the only country singer Cripple Creek has ever produced. Whichever way you look at it, it’s a pretty good achievement.

From Auckland's beloved (their words) alternative comedy night, Cupido Stupido, comes a one night only showcase of the stuff you won't see anywhere else over the festival. Hosted by Matthew Crawley and Barnie Duncan, this is a pop-up line-up show of experimental and boundary-pushing nonsense that will leave you heaving and perplexed in a most refreshing way. Expect some surprise internationals, some big and... other sized stars trying weird one-off ideas all over you.

Sport! It's the greatest thing on earth, and now a comedy show will harness that greatness for one hour only.

Featuring special guests, games, challenges and general some good old fashioned stand up comedy, this show will to be the late night home run of the festival.

After a year of performing worldwide (on land & sea), the award-winning AURIE STYLA is on his biggest tour to date - The Aurator! Come out & watch the ever-charismatic & energetic comedian try to make sense of this crazy world, & his place in it!

Amongst the drudgery of the 9-5, the minutiae of office existence are transformed into gleeful slapstick as these two clown and comedy performers come together to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Dialogue is minimal, but jokes are plentiful in this extraordinary celebration of the banal.

Tom Sainsbury takes center stage with his cup from the staffroom. Between sips of weak tea made with water from the zip, he'll spin everyday situations into comedic gold. From awkward encounters to bizarre escapades, no topic is off-limits in this rollercoaster of laughter.

With a 30k student loan, and no career prospects, Vincent's life is hurtling down the wrong track‚ luckily, he has found the solution: an ancient Grecian artifact said to grant him the power of the 9 muses.

Ray O’Leary returns in all his suited splendour with his brand-new live show, Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger. Every time Ray does stand-up comedy and people laugh he gets a little bit stronger. Soon he will be the most powerful man in the universe. At the end of this show he will be able to lift a car above his head.

International football player, award-winning comic and narcissist (joke) ‚ Orin Ruaine-Prattley makes his Auckland debut with this show that won him Best Newcomer in the 2023 NZ Comedy Fest. Bringing you the unique perspective of a socially awkward, mixed race, post-lad Cook Islander, Orin delivers an honest, vulnerable show on race, romance and mandarins.

Newly married, Schalk feels older, wiser and much more mature (possibly), but all he wants is to stay "hip with the youth". Can he do it? Can he Keep Up? As seen on Netflix and Comedy Central.

My boyfriend tried to murder me in my sleep. No, really! Time to deal with this the only way I know how: jokes.

A Very ‘Jed Parsons’ Christmas is a well polished trainwreck; a multi-media, multi-sensory s**t show that must be witnessed.

Passion, romance, betrayal, hairy chested men and eye patch-wearing villains. These are the staples of a good 'Telenovela'. But how can a Kiwi, non-Spanish speaking, 3rd-generation Latina make sense of her own existence through these outlandish soap operas?

Using sketch comedy, confessional storytelling, and the help of a sexy philosophy lecturer, Lucy Dawber one by one unmasks and confronts life's true bandidos: love, conflict, sex, money and family.

On this, the year of our Lord 2024, it’s a brand new, hour-long, stand-up comedy concert from your ol’ pal Rhys Nicholson! Only a coward wouldn’t attend. As seen on RuPaul’s Drag Race, Taskmaster & Netflix.

Irish comedian Alan McElroy is back with a brand new, high energy show that reflects on his childhood in Dublin in the 80's & 90's.

Heyo, I hope you're well. Just wanted to touch base and let you know Brendon Green has a new show, and it's really good.

New Zealand's Television sweetheart Laura Daniel (hot one in Two Hearts*) is back performing her first solo comedy hour in 7 years (during which she only aged 3).

Due to popular demand, Scottish comedian Samantha Hannah is bringing her critically acclaimed show to Auckland for the very first time!

Join her for a one-of-a-kind comedy gig, showcasing five completely different female comedians (who are definitely NOT all the same person...)

James Mustapic has many enemies, and it's time to show them all that they musta-picked the wrong guy to mess with. Join him (and probably his mum Janet) for a brand new hour of multi-media stand up comedy that will leave you thinking "I mustapicked the right show to go along to this Comedy Festival!".

Come witness this portly be-speckled freak as he makes you laugh as many times as he can in sixty minutes! Anthony Crum will beguile you with his tales of shame, spicy observations, and a cavalcade of wacky characters - all from his demented brain. Come laugh so hard you pop a lung!

Unfortunately, Billy T Award nominated musical-comedy duo, Tough Tiger Fist (Ben Cleland and Matt Parker), cannot bring you their new show, Star-Crossed Brothers - because they are dead.

Since thumbing the pages of naughty books at the local library as a kid, Hayley Sproull has been tickled by the world of erotica. From watching Emmanuel in Paris on low volume while her parents slept, to reading of sexy centaurs ravishing a flustered maiden in a cave, Hayley has been a huntress of fanny flutters for many years.

Ahhhh! Watch out! It's Melanie Bracewell! You may have seen her on her hit show, the Cheap Seats, or embarrass herself on Taskmaster NZ. Now is your chance to see her live as she brings her brand-new stand up show to venues across Australia and New Zealand in 2024.

This is my tenth stand up show in the comedy festival and I promise you

with every fibre of my being

that if I were shit at this I would have realised by at least show #9 and given up.

Jake Howie has always been one of the girls - but what does it mean to be one of the girls when you’re a boy? Being one of the boys or girls is about anything but gender.

A HOT GIRL AND HER SUZUKI SWIFT is a hilarious 60-minute show where Ocean Denham looks inward to determine whether parallel parking should just be illegal - it's so hard to do.

Ocean believes her basic bitch mentality helps her with life's bigger issues, more than just her parking skills.

Mad, risqué and uniquely eccentric, critically acclaimed and award-winning Gaulier-trained clown Trygve (pronounced 'trig-vee') Wakenshaw presents his beautifully strange stream-of-consciousness idiocy in NAUTILUS.

If you’ve seen David Correos recently, and you probably have – Taskmaster NZ, Burger King ads, and blowing up on TikTok – you’ll know he’s always experimenting with comedy. Like someone tinkering away in their shed only to reveal a new car that’s part hot rod, part motorcycle and part toaster.

Sober Awkward - the much-loved and award-winning podcast – “Best Wellbeing Podcast” - the Australian Podcast Awards, 2023. They are are bringing their live show to New Zealand for the first time.

From perky tits, to killing nits, join award-winning comedian Sophie McCartney as she ventures into the perilous world of parenthood in this rollicking new stand-up show set to test pelvic floor muscles to the max(i) pad.

Weredingo: A captivating fusion of dance-theatre and storytelling, exploring the plight of shapeshifters in a secret world. Join the support group, wear your animal, and embrace the duality!

Fabulous, filthy and downright hilarious! Brace yourselves for a wild ride of side-splitting hilarity with the modern-day Queen of Sass, as she takes you on a laugh-out-loud adventure of her trials and tribulations of parenting, dating and all things female.

Winner: 'Best Comedy' Newcastle Fringe 2022.

Acclaimed as a work of genius. The contradictions of modern India, with its iPhones and ancient gods, come alive in this much-loved play from one of New Zealand’s finest performers.

Vismaya, Sanskrit for amazement, is a new work from highly acclaimed Mudra Dance Company and is guaranteed to be an exuberant programme of the classical Indian dance form of Bharata Natyam, accompanied by a live ensemble of esteemed South Indian musicians.

The choices we made yesterday.
The difficult realities of tomorrow.

Rethink everything you know about climate change - the Climate Era is here.

Atsuko is growner than ever, having figured everything out from doing laundry to charcuterie platters to her relationship with her father. No notes or tweaks needed, she's a perfect human!! 

Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Hurst star in New Zealand's premiere of 'In Other Words', an award-winning play written by Matthew Seager

“We’re all going on a, summer holiday…”