Today Extra
The Great Servo Pie Reckoning
Sara Pascoe reviews the Australian servo pie as only an outsider could.
The Comic Take
Today's news,
one take funnier.
A rapid-response take on the day's biggest stories and public absurdities — produced daily with Sydney Comedy Festival talent, airing across Today, Today Extra and Nine News.
nine.com.au
The Missing Wine Glass: A Share House Investigation
Kitty Flanagan gets to the bottom of every Sydney share house's one, permanently missing wine glass.
9Go!
The M4 Traffic Report, But Make It Stand-Up
Ronny Chieng reviews peak hour on the M4 like it's a fringe show. It is not a good review.
9Go!
Bondi's New Dog Beach Rules, Reviewed By A Man Who Owns No Dog
Daniel Sloss has strong opinions and zero stakes.
This Week's Comic Take: Every Segment, One Sitting
Featuring Arj Barker, Sara Pascoe, Kitty Flanagan, Ronny Chieng and Daniel Sloss.
Green Room Confidential
One question.
No filter.
Backstage dispatches answering a single, deceptively simple question — the candid, unpolished side of the Festival you don't get from a press conference.
Today's Question
“What's the worst heckle you've ever survived?”
Answered by Adam Kay · backstage, Enmore Theatre
Yesterday's Question
“What's the one bit you almost cut, and wish you hadn't?”
Answered by James Acaster · backstage, Sydney Opera House
Tonight's Guide
What to see,
and where.
Taste- and mood-based recommendations updated nightly — short clips, artist introductions and venue details, so you know exactly where to be.
If you're only seeing one gala
Sydney Opera House
Selling fast
Best for a first date
Enmore Theatre
Tickets left
Loudest room in town
Tumbalong Park
Free entry
Comedians Explain Australia
Local life, decoded.
Slightly unhinged.
Festival comedians decode the country's most recognisable behaviours and institutions — a running series, filmed through the local and international acts touring each year.
New episode
The Bunnings sausage sizzle
A structural analysisSeries
The Australian “yeah, nah”
A linguistic investigationSeries
Servo pie etiquette
There are rules. Nobody wrote them downSeries
The 2am Maccas run
A ritual, examinedAlso on Nine
Festival comedians,
on your usual shows.
This year's line-up doesn't stay on stage — catch Festival talent guesting across Nine's regular programming, all festival long.
Today Extra
Panel takeover: Sara Pascoe co-hosts the Thursday panel
This Thursday, 4:00pm
Nine News
Entertainment desk crosses live to the Festival all week
Nightly, from 6:00pm
9Now
The Festival collection: Green Room, Comic Take and more, in one place
Streaming nowGala Guide
The circuit,
venue by venue.
Your guide to this year's gala circuit — six venues, one city, and the biggest names in comedy passing through each of them.
From this week's Green Room Confidential
“Who needs to perform at Glastonbury when you can perform to thousands at Tumbalong Park!”
Dave Hughes · read the full interview
12
Festival opens
Sydney-wide
17
Gala on the Green
Tumbalong Park
18
Great Laugh in the Park
Tumbalong Park
19
Gala
Enmore Theatre
21
Gala
Chatswood Concourse
25
Gala
Sydney Opera House
27
Gala
The Joan, Penrith
12
Gala
The Pavilion, Sutherland
16
End of Fest Gala & Festival closes
Enmore Theatre
On the Road
One festival,
all of NSW.
57 stages across Sydney, plus a growing tour hitting 20+ towns statewide — regional Australia's biggest comedy night, wherever it lands.
Sydney CityInner WestBondiChatswoodPenrithSutherlandParramatta
NewcastleWollongongByron BayTweed HeadsCoffs HarbourPort MacquarieLismoreTamworthArmidaleDubboOrangeBathurstCowraGriffithWagga WaggaGoulburnNowraKiamaBowralMudgeeMaitlandLake MacquarieHornsbyDee WhyThirroulSpringwoodLiverpoolParkesMiltonMerimbulaBatemans BayWentworthville