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!
THIS IS STRICTLY AN 18+ EVENT
An evening of hilarious alternative comedy from Brisbane's best comedians!
Do Something is an alternative comedy night where Brisbane's best comedians get to do anything except stand-up, and it's going to get weird. We've got sketch, improv, music, burlesque, clowning, and more! Grab some mates, have a beer and start your weekend the right way.
Presented by Brisbane sketch comedy legend Matt Nunn.
Back to back killer shows for your Saturday night!
Women's Show is one of our best shows period. Featuring a stellar cast of women & non-binary performers, they will create incredible comedy scenes and stories that will leave you in stitches. You'll be smiling ear to ear!
Wer Ya From is an improvised comedy show based on hilarious true stories of heritage and culture, performed by Big Fork Theatre's best multicultural performers. They are brilliant! Come see why Wer Ya From packs out Big Fork Theatre ever show.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Join Big Fork Theatre for a night of celebration and fun as some of our more experienced improvisers graduate to the next level!
Tonight's graduation show includes performances from these Term 1 classes:
The Scene: Cameron's Class
Characters - Janette's Class
Group Mind - Imogen's Class
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 Characters students having been honing their improv characters for the last 6 weeks - they're going to big, silly and fun!
Our Group Mind students have been learning how to work together as an ensemble, one of the most important and difficult parts of any successful improv group. They're ready to showcase their brand new skills!
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.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Brisbane's favourite improvised comedy showdown every Thursday night at Big Fork Theatre!
Each week our reigning Cage Match 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. This is comedy at its competitive best. This is mate vs mate. This is Cage Match!
Opening the show this week is The Mixer.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th birthday year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
4 comedians VS the toughest darn quiz show you've ever seen!
Join us for a night of trivia and big laughs, as a panel of comedians go head to head and try to outwit each other and end up on top. From the brilliant minds of Big Fork Theatre performers Matthew E Matthews (2024 Cage Match Grand Finalist - And The Winner Is...) and Rhys McCane (Culprits & Master Taskers) comes a hilarious game show that is the perfect mix of comedy and trivia. Who will win? Grab a ticket and find out!
A totally improvised musical from Brisbane's best musical improv troupe the Tuning Forks!
See these talented comedians sing, dance and joke through a Broadway-style musical made up entirely on the spot. Accompanied by the incredible musician/director Mark Grimes, this show will leave you in stitches and also a little bit gobsmacked - they're world-class!
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Join Big Fork Theatre for a night of celebration and fun as our newest improvisers take to the stage for the first time!
Tonight's graduation show includes performances from these Term 1 classes:
Improv Fundamentals - Ben'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!
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.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Brisbane's longest running sketch comedy show!
Join Brisbane's best comedy writers and performers as they showcase their brand new sketches, characters and comedy bits you'll never see the like of again. Every show is a totally new hour of sketch comedy that will have you howling with laughter. If you love shows like Thank God You're Here or Saturday Night Live, then this is the show for you!
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Brisbane's favourite improvised comedy showdown every Thursday night at Big Fork Theatre!
Each week our reigning Cage Match 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. This is comedy at its competitive best. This is mate vs mate. This is Cage Match!
Opening the show this week is the La Ronde.
2025 is Big Fork Theatre's 10th year! To celebrate ALL tickets to Big Fork Theatre produced shows will only be $10 + booking fee for the time being.
Brisbane improv comedy juggernaut Poop Joggers are hitting the stage!
Between 2017-2018 the quiet Brisbane suburb of Greenslopes was preyed upon by a corporate executive (CE) and his foul behaviour. On at least 30 different occasions this CE would go for a jog in the wee hours of the morning and defecate on a residential apartment block. After a successful sting operation by the residents, the CE was caught and given the nickname Poo Jogger.
From this story, four of the best improv comedians Taylor Edwards, Chris Milne, Coen Gilbert and Chris Martin (all from Greenslopes) teamed up and the improv comedy juggernaut that is the Poop Joggers was born. They have been tearing up comedy stages around Brisbane for 2 years now PLUS they sold out their show at the 2023 Brisbane Improv Festival. Their shows are always wild and so so funny!
The Poop Joggers are the true definition of the proverb - "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade." They are hilarious lemonade!