Best Stand-Up Comedy in Sydney Right Now: Clubs, Gigs & Open Mics

a crowd of people at the Comedy Fest

Sydney’s stand-up comedy scene is firing on all cylinders, with everything from big-name international acts to raw, unpredictable open-mic nights lighting up the city week after week. Whether you’re after a polished theatre show, a packed comedy club, or a last-minute laugh in a pub backroom, there’s no shortage of laughs.

Last laugh: the best shows at the last week of the Sydney Comedy Festival

a stage with a crowd of people watching

Time is running out to join the fun at Sydney’s biggest celebration of comedy at it enters its last week. To help you decide what to book, we’ve selected the best shows on during the last week of the Sydney Comedy Festival. We’ve seen it all during the past three weeks: epic gala nights, drunken

Laughs and laneways: what we thought of the inaugural Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl

Ray Badrun was one of the comedians who performed at the inaugural Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawl on Tuesday, May 6.

New for this year, the Sydney Comedy Festival Comedy Crawls have already sold out, signalling huge appetite for the concept. We went along to the first one to find out what it’s all about. On Tuesday night, we went to Sydney Comedy Festival’s (SCF) inaugural Comedy Crawl, part of the festival’s 20th anniversary. The premise