Every Tuesday, 7:30pm

New comedians doing their best, and the best comedians doing their new.

Get the crew together for cheap tickets, cheap drinks, cheap laughs. What’s not to love!

TUESDAY 27 January: Ray O'Leary, Alex Keen, Bahaa Dabbagh, Sean Collier, Yeluselemi Diakanua, Ciara Murphy, Thalia Joan & Secret Surprise Guest

(Lineups are subject to last minute changes)

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Every Wednesday, 8:00pm

Melbourne's best improv show, starring cast and crew from Ch 10’s television improv juggernaut 'Thank God You’re Here' plus a different special guest every week.

It’s long form improv at its finest, with famous faces dropping by each week for a completely improvised and always chaotic performance.

Based off audience suggestion, Something Good makes up a show that is something great and something that will never be seen again. Past guests include Aaron Chen, Andy Lee, Broden Kelly, Glenn Robbins, Anne Edmonds, Bajo, Wil Anderson, Guy Montgomery, Rhys Nicholson, Tom Cashman, Charlie Pickering, Nina Oyama, Zachary Ruane and way way more.

Each week our special guests are joined by a rotating casat of Melbourne's best improvisers: Amy Ruffle, Ben Russell, Lena Moon, Alistair Baldwin, Pedro Cooray, Tiana Hogben, Taylor Griffiths, Millie Holten, Tim Hewitt, Kyran Nicholson, Josh Chodziesner and Barney Pollock.

UPCOMING SPECIAL GUESTS:

Wednesday 21 January Broden Kelly

Wednesday 28 January Con Coutis

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Thursday 29 January, 6:00pm

Danny Bhoy is about to embark on a regional tour of his smash hit show ‘Dear World…’

This is a chance to see a warm-up of the show which was a complete sell-out at the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival!

This is a 75-minute show with no interval. Limited 4 tickets per booking.

All Net proceeds from the show will be donated to Foodbank Victoria

Every Thursday, Friday & Saturday, 8:00pm

Comedy Republic's signature lineup show!

Main Stage has quickly become our biggest show, selling out on the regular with huge all-star lineups and lively fun-loving crowds. Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday, you can be sure to catch a heap of the best comedians Melbourne and the wider world have to offer.

- - - MAIN STAGE FORMAT - - -

Main Stage (90min show, 5+ comedians, inc interval)
Thursday 8:00pm - $29
Friday 8:00pm - $34
Saturday 8:00pm - $39

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THURSDAY 22 JANUARY Lloyd Langford, Claire Hooper, Ben Searle, Con Coutis, Maren May & Carmelo Costa

FRIDAY 23 JANUARY Claire Hooper, Ben Searle, Con Coutis, Meg Jäger, Maren May & Carmelo Costa

SATURDAY 24 JANUARY Claire Hooper, Ben Searle, Con Coutis, Meg Jäger, Maren May & Carmelo Costa

THURSDAY 29 JANUARY Takashi Wakasugi, Ray O'Leary, Jess Fuchs, Kru Harale, Joseph Green & Luke Benson

FRIDAY 30 JANUARY Takashi Wakasugi, Jess Fuchs, Josh Earl, Kru Harale, Joseph Green & Luke Benson

SATURDAY 31 JANUARY Takashi Wakasugi, Jess Fuchs, Josh Earl, Kru Harale, Joseph Green & Luke Benson

(Lineups are subject to last minute changes)

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Friday 30 & Saturday 31 January, 6:30pm

COMEDY SPECIAL TAPING

Con Coutis has been sent to Heck Island to perform stand-up comedy. After a security scare, he is wrongfully imprisoned. With an hour on the clock, he must break out, clear his name and tell at least 28 jokes.

Escape from Heck Island is like being inside a really funny prison break movie. To add to the immersion, the show makes use of surround sound (!) and some other tech trickery you'll have to see to believe.

★★★★★ ArtsHub  

★★★★★ The Funny Tonne  

★★★★★ Lilithia Reviews  

★★★★★ Theatre Matters  

★★★★ The Age  

NOMINATED - Green Room Award for Best Sound Design, Independent Theatre 2024 + 2025
NOMINATED - Golden Gibbo Award Melb Int. Comedy Festival 2023
NOMINATED - Best Comedy at Melbourne Fringe 2023 + 2024
WINNER - Sound and Technical Excellence Award at Melbourne Fringe 2024

Limit 10 tickets per customer

Every Sunday in February, 5:00pm

Your Sunday afternoon plans just got upgraded.

Introducing Sunday Laughternoons - a secret lineup of very good comedians, drink specials, and zero pressure. You won’t know who’s on until they walk out.

End your weekend on a high note with this week's secret lineup.

Monday 2 February, 7:30pm

Monthly drag bingo with your favourite nans.

Edith Vale, Maureen McGillicuddy and Caroline Springs have been hosting their sold out Granny Bingo night for 10 years. The pandemic almost took them out, but never fear; Caroline doesn't think it's real, so we're back live in the Comedy Republic bar!

And yes, you will actually play bingo! Nanna kisses xx

Saturdays from 7 Feb - 7 Mar, 6:30pm

Melbourne's best comedians try out their new shit.

We’re peeling back the curtain and shining the light on Melbourne’s best comedians as they test out their freshest material in these lineup shows of our best comedians.

Be the very first to hear jokes that might end up in award-winning shows, Gala appearances, or maybe even straight in the bin.

Expect new bits, scribbled notes, nerves, and a whole lot of laughs from your favourite comedians trying their newest jokes.

Limit 10 tickets per customer

UPCOMING LINEUPS TBA

12 & 13 February, 6:30pm

The smash hit returns to Melbouene for a special live recording!

Nina Oyama is a 30-something comedian who doesn’t really know what she’s doing or where she’s going.

But one thing is for certain. She is coming...:)

As seen on Deadloch & Taskmaster Australia

“Nina Oyama is not a gentle or family-friendly comedian. What she is, though, is filthy, whip-smart and screamingly funny” TimeOut  

“A natural at comedy” Chortle  

“Male stand-ups have been doing jokes about self-pleasure since, well, forever, and now it’s Nina’s turn to go all in.” The Age  

26 March - 19 April, 6:00pm

After a 2025 sold-out national tour of his completely improvised stand-up show, Wil Anderson is back for more. No script, no recordings, just every night a different show created specifically for the audience in the room.

Witness one of the fastest comedic minds of his generation for a unique Festival experience in the intimate surroundings of Melbourne’s favourite Comedy Club - Comedy Republic.

BOOK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WILL SELL OUT TOO QUICKLY.

“A back-to-basics gem, stand-up in its most ephemeral and pure form.” The Saturday Paper, 2025  

26 March - 19 April, 7:30pm

I told my manager I wanted to write a show about dead dogs, and she said “oh god” but that’s not really my problem, it’s her job to market it.

This show isn’t sad, you will leave feeling good. I promise.

Thinking about asking my vet for a refund on the euthanasia just to see what happens.

27 & 28 March, 10:30pm

After a totally sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, Award-winning character comedians and IRL Sisters, Maddy and Marina Bye (Byes), are bringing their hit show to Melbourne for the very first time.

Finally, their years of research is complete and you get the first glimpse into their incredibly innovative invented invention. Set your alarms and see Siblings swoop into the surreal world of your sleeping minds as they crack open your brains and backflip in.

Gird your loins for a knock(ed) out hour of absurd, raucous and down right delirious comedy.

“So savagely funny” ★★★★★ Ed Fringe Review  

“Bone Achingly Funny” ★★★★★ Three Weeks  

“A wonderful, anarchic sketch show from two superb performers” ★★★★ The List  

28 March & 18 April, 3:00pm

Sammy Petersen dives into the world of reddit so you don’t have to…and finds the most awful confessions to pick apart with amazing guests.

Special guests to be announced.

Sunday 29 March, 4:30pm

A joyful, absurd celebration of Stuart Daulman’s 20 years in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Revisiting characters, stories and chaos in Stuart Daulman, This Is Your Comedy Life.

1, 8 & 15 April, 9:00pm

A fully improvised quiz show where the experts are idiots. Kyran Nicholson and his celebrity guest see just how badly they go attempting a quiz - with the trusty assistance of the brains trust phoning in (read: the best improv comedians in Melbourne/The World deep, and sometimes shallow, in character).

If you like improv, this is some of Australia's best. Be part of the live episode recorded at Comedy Republic and listen back wherever you get your podcasts.

4 & 5 April, 10:30pm

What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking, is John-Luke's most stand-uppy stand-up show yet (although it’s also got poems and songs in it). A 4-laughs-a-minute (which is pretty good actually) meditation on mortality, human complexity and maybe also JL’s bulletproof theory that the UK’s (and Australia’s, come to think of it) monarch should be replaced with a tortoise as head of state.

Winner of the Besties Edinburgh Fringe Legend Award and one of The Telegraph’s (UK) 50 funniest comedians of the 21st Century. The Guardian have also said nice things about him and, tbh, he’s much more in their wheelhouse politically.

★★★★ The Guardian  

★★★★ The Times  

★★★★ The Telegraph  

Friday 10 April, 10:30pm

For one night only, YESYESYES returns for another hilarious night of unhinged, fully-formed, deeply unnecessary characters on one glorious late night stage.

Watch as some of the world’s most lauded and applauded comedians disappear into the absurd. The lineup will be bonkers once again (TBC), the vibes are unpredictable, and the comedy is wildly original.

Past yesyesyes nights have sold out fast and gone down as some of the most fun, ridiculous and memorable shows in recent Australian comedy memory. If you love characters, chaos and loose comics taking big, stupid, brilliant swings - then well this is right up your laneway.

One night. One lineup. One beautiful mess.

YES, YES - OH YES.

Saturday 11 April, 3:00pm

Rhys Nicholson, Kyran Nicholson and Georgia Mooney have been Fwends for ages.

Each week they talk to a new Fwend on their podcast Fwends, to learn about their Fwends and perhaps learn about how to be a better Fwend. They do not say "fwends" every time.

This will be the first ever live recording of the long-running podcast. Come!

Sunday 12 April, 2:00pm & 4:00pm

After a fully sold out run at Edinburgh fringe and being reviewed one of the top 5 of the thousands of shows on offer, Michelle Brasier figured she could probably milk her show REFORM a little more by performing it in Melbourne, this time not during a pandemic (cute!) and this time for a very special taping (the taping of a very special). For two shows only Michelle is coming home to Comedy Republic.

Reform is a cautionary tale of an online scam and the urge to empathise with, understand, and become the emergency contacts of those who have done us wrong. A theatrical hour of storytelling and music, with Tim Lancaster playing the role of his own worst enemy. Maybe the real Facebook Marketplace is the friends we make along the way.

*there will be cameras, if you are in hiding for crimes etc, make sure you wear a little hat AND this will probably sell out please book fast, I can’t do extras - I have to go back to the musical I am doing where I do a two hour long impression of Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny (this is real).

“Engagingly propulsive … thoroughly entertaining … dishing out gutsy optimism and faith in redemption” ★★★★★ The Times  

Friday 17 April, 10:30pm

Grace Jarvis attempts to present: Comedians Perform Rocky Horror From Memory.

Have you ever wanted to see a cult classic musical performed by comedians who have not practiced nor seen the script? Does the prospect of watching professional performers fumble through the plot of a movie they can vaguely recall sounds like a fun Friday night?

If so, you are hereby invited to attend the debut performance of Comedians Perform Rocky Horror From Memory. Featuring comedians such as Lou Wall, Hot Department, Cass Paige, Scout Boxall, David Correos, Alex Hines and other as yet unannounced freaks and weirdos.

Costumes encouraged.

Sunday 19 April, 3:00pm

Comedian Damien Power presents his award-winning short film (20 mins), a deeply personal story exploring the complicated relationship between two brothers.

Damien and his brother Will, a world-champion IndyCar driver, play themselves in a film that blurs the line between documentary and drama.

Set in their hometown of Toowoomba, the story unfolds after Will returns home following a horrific racing accident. Though fictional, the film draws heavily from real events, using non-actors playing themselves to create an intimate and emotionally grounded portrait of family, rivalry, and unspoken trauma.

Balancing humour with vulnerability, the film examines how success, competition, and how unresolved pain can shape a relationship.