Every Thursday - Saturday, 8:00pm (9pm all of July)

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 - $26
Friday 8:00pm - $29
Saturday 8:00pm - $36

- - - UPCOMING LINEUPS - - -

THURSDAY 25 JULY Jordan Barr, Nick White, Concetta Caristo, Tom Walker, Meg Jager, Harry Jun & Kru Harale

FRIDAY 26 JULY Claire Hooper, Nick White, Prue Blake, Tom Walker, Anisa Nandaula & Harry Jun

SATURDAY 27 JULY Claire Hooper, Nick White, Jordan Barr, Tom Walker, Anisa Nandaula & Harry Jun

THURSDAY 1 AUGUST Mike Goldstein, Daniel Connell, Fergus Neal, Anisa Nandaula, Suren Jayemanne & Bea Barbeau-Scurla

FRIDAY 2 AUGUST Mike Goldstein, Daniel Connell, Fergus Neal, Scout Boxall, Suren Jayemanne & Bea Barbeau-Scurla

SATURDAY 3 AUGUST Mike Goldstein, Daniel Connell, Fergus Neal, Scout Boxall, Suren Jayemanne & Bea Barbeau-Scurla

Coming up in August: Sez, Alex Ward, Bron Lewis, Sammy Petersen, Lizzy Hoo, Jack Druce, Aurelia St Clair, Stu Daulman, Simon Taylor, Meg Jager & more

(Lineups are subject to last minute changes)

Every Tuesday from July 30, 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 30 July Daniel Connell, Charlie Lewin, Tarsh Jago, Bridget Hassed, Fin McLachlan, Jacob Henegan & more

Tuesday 6 August Aaron Gocs, Bea Barbeau-Scurla, Gavin Sempel, Chloe Black, Oscar Robertson, Christopher Martin & more

31 July & 7 August, 6:30pm

Join us where comedy meets art, and art meets group hysteria for Neurotica: a lineup show of hilarious and deeply personal comedy from across the worlds of stand-up, literature, visual art and beyond.

Expect funny, uncomfortable, raw & intimate comedy in the form of storytelling, sketch and general weirdness, straight from the Bad Brains of some of our funniest creators.

Wednesday 31 July Patrick Lenton, Sammy Petersen, Pedro Cooray, Annie and Lena, Vidya Rajan, Tarsh Jago & Rose Bishop

Wednesday 7 August Ben Russell, Vidya Rajan, Suren Jayemanne, Belinda Anderson-Hunt, Elyce Phillips & Rose Bishop

Saturday 3 August, 3:00pm

‘Who Knew It with Matt Stewart’ is the comedy quiz podcast where the guests write the wrong answers! To celebrate the 100th episode, we’re doing a massive live show!

Previous episodes have featured top comedians and podcasters including Wil Anderson, Claire Hooper, Dave O’Neil, He Huang, Ivan Aristeguieta, Kirsty Webeck, Jess Perkins, Dave Warneke and Luke Heggie!

Saturday 27 July & 3 August, 4:30pm

Did Frida Kahlo & Marco Polo really meet at Coachella? Who dominated the music round in Andre the Giant & Neil Armstrong's pub trivia team? Who played Wing Defence in William Shakespeare & Marie Curie’s mixed netball team? Damian Callinan hosts an improvised chat show with a rotating duo of comedians and improvisors taking on historical roles as they reinvent the past, revealing how they became Unlikely Friends

The three-time nominee for Most Outstanding Show at MICF, returns to his improv roots in this new format that will be later released as a podcast. The 2024 MICF season featured, amongst others, Ned Kelly (Wil Anderson) & Estee Lauder (Gillian Cosgriff) reminiscing about the Kelly Gang hiding out at her luxury beachside estate in the Hamptons. Noah (Tom Gleeson) & Steve Irwin (Dane Simpson) riffed on their first meeting at Jesus’s Buck Weekend in Byron Bay. Who will launch themselves into the historical mosh pit this time? As Napoleon Bonaparte once said on the Graeme Norton Show, ‘History is a set of lies agreed upon’

Saturday 27 July feat Hannah Camilleri & Josh Ladgrove

Saturday 3 August feat Charlie Pickering & Genevieve Morris

First Monday Of Every Month, 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 5 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

More events: Granny Bingo is on the first Monday of every month.

Wednesday 7 August, 8:00pm

Guy Montgomery performs his show from this year’s comedy festival!

But with some new bits he hasn’t really figured out yet, and without some old bits that he can’t perform in the United Kingdom because they won’t make sense to British people (too dense)

Winner of Best of Fest, Sydney Comedy Festival 2023
Winner of the Fred Award (Best Show), New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2023

“One of Oceania's premier observational comedians.” The Age  

“... there are few better at combining oddity with punchlines.” Chortle  

8 - 17 August, 6:30pm

Logie winning actor Rob Carlton is bringing his 5-star Adelaide Fringe hit, Willing Participant, to Melbourne for a limited 2-week season.

In this 1-hour show Rob tells four true stories: sexual taboos, big lies, deep heartaches, and blind hope. With stories from his 20’s to his 50’s, this world class storyteller reminds us what it is too feel alive!

Directed by theatre and comedy legend Darren Gilshenan, you’ll laugh and cry and laugh again and leave in love with the world.

“Storytelling at it's most delightfulness told by a consumate performer” ★★★★★ Glam Adelaide  

“Each story was pure joy... magnetic in his delivery” ★★★★★ Stage Whispers  

“I’ve never seen anything like it, this thing of simple storytelling beauty and humour nudging so regularly on the profound.” Trent Dalton - Boy Swallows Universe  

“Just superb” Michala Banas  

“Completely riveting!” Samuel Johnson  

“His stories shoot you through an emotional pinball machine” Josh Lawson  

48hr Flash Sale from 12pm Tue 18 June - 12pm Thu 20 June. Limited allocation available.

Thursday 22 August, 6:30pm

It’s the podcast you used to listen to now live and in the flesh!

Three of the worst brains Australia has to offer answer pop culture’s most important questions in the wrongest way possible.

This is not a Star Wars podcast.

Friday 23 August, 6:00pm

Each week Sammy finds the weirdest online confessions on reddit dot com for great guests to give advice.

24 August & 21 September, 6:00pm

Come watch Australia's funniest Asian comedians ranging from professional acts seen on television as well as up-and-coming stars of the local comedy scene.

From strict parents to racism, from the everyday absurdities of life to the political status of Taiwan, no topic is off limits for this 90 minute show of non-stop laughs.

27 - 31 August, 6:30pm

For five nights only, come and see the 71st annual University of Melbourne Law Revue!

Back again at Comedy Republic, we promise you an evening of sketch comedy of only the highest and finest quality, written and performed by the best new talent in Melbourne.

The Revue has a host of top alumni: Ronny Chieng, Magda Szubanski, Sammy J, Celia Pacquola and Cate Blanchett (yeah, I know right). We are not exaggerating when we say that statistically speaking, one of the performers this year could potentially become the next Cate Blanchett.

So if your tastes include a night of thrillingly funny sketch comedy, get yourself a ticket to the Law Revue 2024 – Who Killed Harold Holt?

The show on Wed 28 Aug will be AUSLAN interpreted.

Saturday 7 September, 6:00pm

Join us for the exclusive Melbourne launch of Michelle Brasier's memoir My Brother's Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag.

ABOUT THE BOOK
Your future is not guaranteed. And isn’t that fucking freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it?

That’s a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there’s a high chance she’ll get it too. She’s only young (oh my god so young, and such great skin) but she has been through a lot and it’s taught her to live each day like it’s her last – because it just might be.

From teenage fumblings in the back of a car in Wagga Wagga (teen pregnancy capital of Australia), to performing with Aunty Donna and her own sell-out comedy shows, Michelle invites you into the highs (seeing Jason Momoa drinking a Guinness next to a classic car in Soho) and the lows (getting dumped three quarters of the way through Pirates of the Caribbean).

It’s an examination of the tiny things and the big things – how much it hurts to be a woman and a person, and how funny it is to try and get into shapewear, and how funerals are silly. It’s self-help for those of us who hate self-help. A bit of a laugh and a bit of a cry. Balance. Yoga in the morning, whisky in the evening.

Heartbreaking and hilarious, My Brother’s Ashes are in a Sandwich Bag moves between grief and joy, reminding us that life’s too short to be taken seriously.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Michelle Brasier is a multiple award-winning actor, singer, writer and comedian whose sold-out shows have won standing ovations across Australia and UK. On the small screen, Michelle has been featured on Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe, Stories From Oz, Thank God You’re Here, The 100 with Andy Lee, The Project, Koala Man and Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. Michelle is widely known for her collaborations with absurdist comedy sketch group Aunty Donna, including on their smash-hit Netflix series, Aunty Donna’s Big Ol’ House of Fun.

31 October - 1 November, 6:00pm

Self-help Singh is the alter ego of international comedian Masood Boomgaard. Self-help Singh, described as a comedic alternative life coach and de-motivational speaker, first appeared to Boomgaard in a vision after he fell and hit his head while rushing to the bathroom in an attempt to outrun the gastric consequences of bad lamb vindaloo.

Boomgaard has since been sharing the "common sense wisdom" and de-motivational teachings of Self-help Singh to millions of people on the internet. The Self-help Singh live show is a hilarious yet thought provoking juxtaposition of stand-up comedy, parody and motivational speaking.

During his decade long full time professional comedy career Boomgaard has performed in New York, London, Dubai and during the lockdown, in his father's garage. He lives in South Africa with his cat...for now.