Big Fork is Brisbane’s home of comedy
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Improvised comedy
Improvised comedy is made up on the spot. Big Fork has Brisbane’s funniest and best improvisers performing every week, including in our flagship show Cool Story Bro featuring local Brisbane legends telling true stories. Big Fork’s improvisers have trained at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, New Zealand Improv Festival and iO Chicago.
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy, like Saturday Night Live or Full Frontal, is bite sized comedy scenes. Big Fork Theatre have been performing live sketch comedy since 2014, and we have the finniest writers and actors in Brisbane bringing you regular hilarious sketch comedy including in our show Get It* Inya. (*live comedy).
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Stand up comedy
Stand up comedy is a core part of any comedy lineup - one person, a mic and finely honed jokes. Big Fork Theatre presents some of the best stand up comedians Brisbane has to offer, with a guarantee of quality and entertainment. Come have a laugh and see comedians performing new and tried and tested work.
See a show at Big Fork Theatre!
We have two great shows this Friday!
First up, explore a an absurd, funny and charming version of South East Queensland in the improvised parody of the classic Queensland lifestyle show, Improvised Great South East.
Then see Wer Ya From, an improvised show based on hilarious true stories of heritage and culture from some of Big Fork Theatre's best multicultural performers!
“Deeply entertaining” - Anywhere Festival
“Chaotic hilarity” - Nothing Ever Happens In Brisbane
"[the audience] exited the theatre with tears of laughter still streaming down their face." - Theatre Haus
Convent. Clown. Communion.
Hot off the back of a Sydney Comedy Festival sell-out season and encore, don’t miss this critically acclaimed hour of non-stop laughs.
Nun Slut is an absurd journey through religion, the body and Barnaby Joyce. A delightfully silly mashup of sketch, clown and live keyboard, join “fearless” performer Claire Robin for an evening like no other.
Nun? Slut? It’s a spectrum. We’re all on it.
w/ Claire Robin
Brisbane's only monthly experimental sketch comedy night is celebrating it's 10th birthday!!!
Come see Brisbane's best comedy writers and performers do wild characters, scenes and bits you'll never see the like of again. Featuring some old classics from the last 10 years and brand new sketches from our newer sketch comedians.
This is the biggest sketch comedy event of the year AND you're invited!
Live, Laugh & Love with Dommy & Nilly — the silliest billies this side of the Brisbane river. Featuring stand-up & sketch with celebrity guests, this won’t be night you’d easy forget.
The perfect evening of side-splitting stand up comedy. Each show features a brilliant MC, alongside the best comedians from Brisbane and beyond - you never know who might drop in!
Round out your night by enjoying a drink from our stacked bar, serving an awesome selection of beers from the Newstead Brewing Co range.
Finish your weekend with a laugh. Every Sunday (except the 1st Sunday of the month).
The 2024 Cage Match Championships are HERE!
HEAT 1
Two of the best Cage Match teams from 2024 will go head to head, with the winner grabbing a spot in the Cage Match Grand Final on Thursday 19 December.
About Cage Match:
Each week our reigning champions are challenged by a new team. Each team performs a hilarious 20 minutes of improvised comedy, and you the audience get to vote on who continues to next week. This raucous, fun show will get you through to Friday with a spring in your step. The show is opened by a different improv format each week as well, so it’s 3 shows for the price of one in a neat 80 minute package.
This Friday night, have a belly laugh with us as we bring you the best improvised comedy in Brisbane. This show features Big Fork Theatre's best musical improvisers who are ready to rock the audience with hilarious comedy songs made entirely up on the spot!
Also featuring the Crowd Sourced, where the improv comedy comes thick and fast in this non-stop laughathon.
A totally improvised musical from Brisbane's best musical improv troupe the Tuning Forks!
See these talented performers sing, dance and joke through a Broadway-style musical made up on the spot. Watch the heroes journey, see them meet and interact with their world and their classic rivals and villains, and the whole time enjoy incredible spontaneous music accompanied by incredible musician and director Mark Grimes.
A CHRISTMAS CAPER COMEDY SHOW YOU CONTROL! Join comedy improvisers Mark Grimes and Imogen Behan-Willett for a wild comedic adventure.
Vote on your phone and make the comedy show you want to see; you decide what happens next! Choose who lives, who dies, and who has to speak with an outrageous French accent for the rest of the show.
Join Big Fork Theatre for a night of celebration and fun as our newest improvisers take to the stage - some for the first time!
Tonight's graduation show includes performances from these Term 4 classes:
Improv Fundamentals - Chris’ Class
The Scene - Imogen’s Class
Intro To Musical Improv - Mark’s Class
Our Improv Fundamentals students have been working hard learning all the basics of improv comedy, and now they get to showcase these new skills in a final class performance for you!
The Scene students have taken their improv skills to the next level and have been working really hard on the 2 person scene. They are ready to roll!
Our Intro To Musical Improv students have been learning musical improv comedy under the guidance of their amazing teacher Mark Grimes. They are ready to sing, dance and laugh in their graduation show.
Calling on friends, family, partners, work colleagues, and anyone else - come support this new crop of students as they take their improv journey to the next level.