Gig Guide
Mish Wittrup: Sooky Baby
You know, you would be a lot happier if you just stopped being such a SOOKY BABY.
Award winning comedian Mish Wittrup (The Mish and Zach Podcast, Aunty Donna) would like you to join her in her tantrum. Together, you will dissect the various gripes, grievances and good times turned bad that have left her huffing, puffing and sooking like a baby.
‘An hour in Mish Wittrup’s delightful and cheerful company is an absolute joy.’ ★★★★ CHORTLE
“One of the most incredibly capable members of the Australian Comedy crowd.”★★★★1/2 GLAM Adelaide
“Has her audience continuously laughing!” – Sydney Arts Guide ★★★★1/2
“Masterful!” ★★★★★ Theatre Thoughts
David Correos Challenges His Own Free Will For One Hour
Award winning comedian David Correos hasn’t written the show yet, but he guarantees that you’ll know how to Olympic weightlift and how to fix both your back and front squats by the end of the hour.
CAMERON JAMES – SHARK
18 years ago I got scammed by a low level con man. 2 years ago, I decided to find him again. This is a true story. There’s parts of this that I’m genuinely dreading sharing, which probably means it’s funny. Dammit.
Award winning comedian, storyteller and actor, Cameron James, returns to the festival with a painfully true story about bad friendships, youthful ego, a rip off artist and the Aussie pop punk music scene in the late 2000s. SHARK is the direct follow up to his MICF Most Outstanding Show nominated show, Electric Dreams.
“Comedy par-excellence” ★★★★ 1/2 – The Age
“Cameron is a stunning, evocative storyteller… the laughs come thick and fast” – Squirrel Comedy
CONCETTA CARISTO – SHY
Concetta Caristo has hosted triple j’s national breakfast show, starred in internationally acclaimed
Taskmaster Australia and won last year’s season of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. She is the first
shy person in the world to do that. Concetta now brings you her eagerly anticipated debut hour. She’s
such a shy little mouse, will she even make it onto the stage? Will you have to coax her? You’ll have to
come along and find out.
As seen on Taskmaster, Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee and The Cheap Seats
Demi Lardner: Deleted Scenes
Demi needs your help recreating the deleted scenes from some of her favourite Movies. Come and help glue back the pieces from the cutting room floor.
Part writers room, part actors studio, part insane asylum who knows what can happen in Demi’s ‘Deleted Scenes’
Jam Badger – Not My D*ck Pic on the Cover
Born in a shed in Northcote, Jam Badger is a concept, a social movement, a fragrance… and Australia’s favourite piano-based smut rock trio.
Jam Badger combine catchy melodies with gloriously ridiculous stories and irreverent lyrics, sitting in the dangerous territory between rock and comedy.
Playing songs from their debut album ‘Not My D**k Pic on the Cover’ plus brand new material, Jam Badger cover important topics such as cover drives, potato cakes, Chumbawamba, pink eye, second spouses of rock stars and mass murderers.
Please note, the band contains no actual badgers.
Larry Dean: Hellbent
Recently married, emotionally feral.
The Gallus Glaswegian Goon returns with a riotous show about refusing to grow up.
As seen on SNL, Live at the Apollo, QI and The Royal Variety Performance.
★★★★Telegraph
★★★★★Broadway World
★★★★★Herald
★★★★ “just one of those comics who you can’t help but like, one of the best in the business” Entertainment Now
★★★★★ “Nowhere else at this Fringe has the outrageous and romantic been balanced so well” The Student
★★★★.5 (4.5) “The show is tight, the pace impeccable, the material well crafted and extremely funny. Larry Dean is a star and will be for a long, long time.” one4review British Comedy Guide.
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Follow That Turtle! by Tegan Higginbotham
Tegan Higginbotham said yes to an opportunity she shouldn’t have…and her life totally unravelled.
From the writer of Gnomes on Stan, Follow That Turtle! is a chaotic, raw and hilarious look at the choices we make when chasing our dreams.
SELECTED: Judges Pick, 2026 Melbourne Fringe
“A genuinely excellent hour of stand-up. As funny as it is raw.” – Fringe Judge
“Clever writing meets brilliant delivery. An incredibly important story to hear in the current climate.” – Fringe Judge
“Spot-on” – The Age, October 2026
Anne Edmonds – The End Is Nigh lol
She’s back! Three years on from the sold-out smash Why Is My Bag All Wet?, which became an AACTA Award-winning special, Anne Edmonds returns with a brand-new hour of stand-up.
Does anyone else feel like the world is totally giving ‘nigh’ lol? Let’s discuss.
“Delivering the kind of high you get from the good drugs in hospital” ★★★★ The Age
As seen on Have You Been Paying Attention? and Taskmaster Australia. Creator and star of ABC’s Bad Company.