WHAT’S ON 2025 OPENING WEEKEND
RHINO ROOM FRIDAY 21/2 SATURDAY 22/2
4:30pm Ray O’Leary
RHINO ROOM
LVL 1
DRAMA LLAMA
HELL’S KITCHEN
ALLEY CAT
6:00pm Lost In Translation
7:15pm Wil Anderson - Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil?
8:30pm Ray O’Leary - Laughter? Hardly Know Her!
10:00pm Rhino Room Late Show
5:00pm Work Hates Podcast
6:30pm Bron Lewis - Who’s Talking?
7:45pm Cameron James - Broken Records
9:00pm Mish Witrup - OFF WITH HER HEAD
6:15pm Tommy Dassalo - Main Character Amy Hetherington - Proud as Punch
7:30pm Brett Blake - Little Turd
8:45pm Mish Witrup - OFF WITH HER HEAD Greg Fleet - Exile on Fleet Street
10:00pm Greg Fleet - Exile on Fleet Street
1AA Timetable: Opening Weekend
5:45pm Greg Sulliavan is The Oldest Newomer
7:00pm Han Arbuthnott - They/Hehe
8:15pm Cameron Ribbons - Teaching My Dog: How To Roll a Cigarette (amongst other things) 9:30pm Maren May - Reads Between No Lines
THE HOWLING OWL
GALLERY
MONOCLE
FRIDAY 21/2 SATURDAY 22/2 SUNDAY23/2
8:30pm Nick Capper - Oh, No! It’s Capper
9:45 pm Ashley Chapman - Gary Boone vs. The Woke
3:00pm Amy Hetherington - BYO Baby
4:30pm 5pm - Ray O’Leary Wil Anderson
6:30pm Claire Hooper - Nothing To See Here
7:45pm Stevenson Experience - O Brother, Where Art Though? (on stage, beside me)
9:00pm Lindsay Webb - Woke Me Up Before You Go Go
10:15pm Holographic Charizard
WHAT’S ON 2025 WEEK ONE
RHINO ROOM TUE 25/2 WED 26/2 THU 27/2 FRI 28/2 SAT 1/3
RHINO ROOM LVL 1
6:00pm Lost In Translation
7:15pm Wil Anderson - Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil?
8:30pm Paul McDermott + 1 (-1) presents POEMS
9:45pm Tom Cashman 10pm Rhino Room Late Show
DRAMA LLAMA 5pm Anisa Nandaula
HELL’S KITCHEN
ALLEY CAT
6:30pm Tom Cashman - 2 Truths, 1 Lie & 17 Slight Exaggerations
7:45pm Daniel Connell - Box-Headed Manbaby
9:00pm Guy Williams - If you mildly criticise me I’ll say it’s cancel culture and turn to the alt right
10:15pm Late Night Comedy S**t Show (hosted by Jason Pestell)
6:15pm Amy Hetherington - Proud as Punch
7:30pm Brett Blake - Little Turd
8:45pm Jordan Barr - Dog Why
10:00pm Jackson Grant - The Human Antidepressant
5:45pm Greg Sulliavan is The Oldest Newomer
1AA Timetable: Week 1
7:00pm Greg Fleet - Exile on Fleet Street
8:15pm Meg Jäger - Renaissance Woman
9:30pm Han Arbuthnott - They/Hehe
THE HOWLING OWL TUE 25/2 WED 26/2 THU 27/2 FRI 28/2 SAT 1/3 SUN 2/3
6:00pm Alex and The Babes - Six In The City
GALLERY
8:30pm Nick Capper - Oh, No! It’s Capper
9:45pm Ashley Chapman - Gary Boone vs. The Woke
3:00pm Barry Potter
4:30pm Wil Anderson - Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil? (Sun Only)
MONOCLE
6:30pm Zoë Coombs Marr - Every Single Thing in My Whole Entire Life
7:45pm 2 Ruby Knockers, 1 Jaded D**k: A Dirk Darrow Investigation
9:00pm Lindsay Webb - Woke Me Up Before You Go Go
WHAT’S ON 2025 WEEK TWO
RHINO ROOM TUE 4/3 WED 5/3 THU 6/3 FRI 7/3 SAT 8/3 SUN 9/3
3:00pm Jared Fried - No Winter Tour (Sat Only)
4:30pm Guy Montgomery (Sat and Sun only)
RHINO ROOM LVL 1
DRAMA
HELL’S KITCHEN
6:00pm Becky Lucas - Things Have Changed, But The Essence Remains
7:15pm Wil Anderson - Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil?
8:30pm Guy Montgomery - I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To Myself (advanced WiP)
9:45pm Tony Martin - GASBAG 10pm Rhino Room Late Show
5:00pm Broden Kelly (Fri Only) Michael Chamberlin (6:30 on Sun)
6:30pm Chris Parker - Stop Being So Dramatic!
9:00pm Zach Ruane & Alexei Toliopoulos - Refused Classification
10:15pm Broden Kelly - Yabusele (Thu & Fri Only)
6:15pm 3 Funny Foreigners
7:30pm Oliver Coleman - The Ballad of Oliver Coleman
8:45pm Dave Warneke - Dates The Entire Audience Sammy Petersen
5:45pm Leon Filewood - Whichway?
ALLEY CAT
7:00pm Vida Slayman - The Nutella Wars
1AA Timetable: Week 2
8:15pm Robyn Reynolds - What Doesn’t Kill You
9:30pm Jo Gowda - Export Quality
THE HOWLING OWL TUE 4/3 WED 5/3 THU 6/3 FRI 7/3 SAT 8/3 SUN 9/3
4:30pm Best of British
6:00pm Darren Sanders - Confessions of a Comedic Mind
GALLERY
7:15pm Will Gibb - Why Am I Like This?
8:30pm Shad Wicka - How I Almost Killed A Guy
9:45pm Jimmy Finger - In Too Deep
MONOCLE 3pm Barry Potter
4:30pm Wil Anderson - Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil? (Sun Only)
6:30pm Lizzy Hoo - Deja Hoo
7:45pm Luke Heggie - Yuck (no show Fri)
9:00pm Chris Martin - Not The Guy From Coldplay
10:15pm Shad & Pete Save The World!
WHAT’S ON 2025 WEEK THREE
RHINO ROOM TUE 11/3 WED 12/3 THU 13/3 FRI 14/3 SAT 15/3
4:30pm Friendly Jordies (Sat Only)
RHINO ROOM
LVL 1
DRAMA
LLAMA
6:00pm Lost In Translation
7:15pm Lloyd Langford - Powerful Energy
8:30pm Nazeem Hussain - You Paid For This
9:45pm Friendly Jordies 10pm Rhino Room Late Show
3:45pm He Huang
5:00pm He Huang - White Man’s Burden
6:30pm Bec Hill - Guess Who’s Bec, Bec Again? Bec Hill’s Bec! (Tell A Friend)
7:45pm Andrew Hamilton - This’ll Be Good
9:00pm Elf Lyons - Horses
10:15pm Blake Everett - Kindly Remove Your Shoes
6:15pm AJ Lamarque - A Beginner’s Guide To Gay Cruising
HELL’S KITCHEN
ALLEY CAT
7:30pm Bronwyn Kuss - I’ll Allow It
8:45pm Matt Stewart - Bad Boy
10:00pm Adele Cliff - Adele, Adele, Adele... Cliff It Isn’t The Consequences Of My Own Actions
1AA Timetable: Week 3
5:45pm Aden Hitchins - Random Things
7:00pm Laurence Driscoll - No, No, You First
8:15pm Lena Moon - Rube Goldberg Machine
9:30pm Grace Zhang - Saying Grace
THE HOWLING OWL TUE 11/3 WED 12/3 THU 13/3 FRI 14/3 SAT SUN 16/3
7:15pm Freddie Arthur - Dysfunctional Family Jukebox
GALLERY
8:30pm Peter James - Me, Again. Hello. [ENCORE]
10:00pm Shad & Pete Save The World!
MONOCLE 3:00pm Barry Potter
4:30pm Dance Club: Kids Takeover (Sat Only) Lloyd Langford
6:30pm Cancer and Cartwheels - Dr Jo Prendergast
7:45pm Luke Heggie - Yuck
9:00pm The Biggest Gaslighter In The World
10:15pm Date Night
WHAT’S ON 2025 WEEK FOUR
RHINO ROOM TUE 18/3 WED 19/3 THU 20/3 FRI 21/3 SAT 22/3
6:00pm Lost In Translation
RHINO ROOM
LVL 1
DRAMA LLAMA
7:15pm Mark Watson - Before It Overtakes Us (No Show Wed)
7:15pm Jarryd Goundrey (Wed Only)
8:30pm Nazeem Hussain - You Paid For This
9:45pm 10pm Rhino Room Late Show
5:00pm Steve Sheehan - John Smith (Sat Only)
6:30pm Lewis Garnham - Stream of Contentedness
7:45pm David Correos - Noise Zealand
9:00pm Succulent Comedy Showcase
10:15pm Blake Pavey and Friends
4:45pm Harry Jun - Friendship Safari (Sat & Sun Only)
HELL’S KITCHEN
ALLEY CAT
6:15pm Suren Jayemanne - There’s A World Where My Head Ought Be
7:30pm Nicolette Minster - Boredroom
8:45pm Blake Freeman - Kul (No Show Wed)
1AA Timetable: Week 4
5:45pm Kushi Venkatesh - Happy
7:00pm Alayne Dick - Purple Is The Gayest Colour
8:15pm Kate Dolan - The Critic
9:30pm Jordan Sharp - The Goose
THE HOWLING OWL TUE 18/3 WED 19/3 THU 20/3 FRI 21/3 SAT 22/3
6:00pm Kyle Dolan - Please Hello
GALLERY
MONOCLE
7:15pm Vanessa Lary Mitchell - Lube Me Alone
8:30pm Love Hurts, Work Sucks: Comedians on Conflict & Communication
3:00pm Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizadry (Sat Only)
4:30pm Dance Club: Kids Takeover (Sat Only)
6:30pm Ting Lim - What I Really Think
7:45pm Daniel Delby & Macshane: 2 White Guys Rapping (Whose Rhyme is it Anyway?)
9:00pm Quonny and Qurbs - Sell Your Stuff
10:15pm Nazeem Hussain - You Paid For This (Sat Only)
WEEK 2
Rhino Room Late Show: 25 Years
SHOW LATE
WHI C H WAY ?
WINNER
DEADLY FUNNY
MELBOURNE COMEDY
FESTIVAL 2018
4TH - 9TH MARCH 2025
5:45PM @ RHINO ROOM’S ALLEY CAT
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“Charms your red and gold socks off!”
-Winnipeg free press
“Seriously impressive” -The List
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Fringe Festival Awards!
Magic Award
Adelaide Fringe 2023
Comedy Award
Perth Fringe 2022
From Dirk Darrow’s Tim Motley
All Weekend Matinees 16 Feb - 23 March 2025. 3pm @ The Howling Owl, Mar 1-2, 8-9, 15-16, 22-23. 3pm 16 & 23 Feb, 2pm 22 Feb, 1pm 19 Mar various venues.
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21st Feb - 1st March
21st - 22nd Feb 7:00pm 25th Feb - 1st March 9:30pm
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Index
Cameron Ribbons - Teaching My Dog: How To Roll a Cigarette (amongst other things)
and Cartwheels - Dr Jo Pendergast
- Not The Guy From Coldplay
Parker - Stop Being So Dramatic!
- Nothing To See Here
Connell - Box Head Manbaby
Sanders - Confessions of a Comedic Mind
Warneke Dates The Entire Audience
David Correos - Noise Zealand
Elf Lyons - Horses
38 Friendly Jordies - Alien Hunter 93 Gary Boon VS The Woke - A Character Comedy Show by Ash Chapman
Zhang - Saying Grace 85 Greg Fleet - Exile on Fleet Street 86 Greg Sullivan - The Oldest Newcomer
Guy Montgomery - I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To Myself
Guy Williams - If you mildly criticise me I’ll say it’s cancel culture and turn to the alt right
Han Arbuthnott - They/Hehe
Harry Jun - Friendship Safari
He Huang - White Man’s Burden
Grant - The Human Antidepressant
61 Jarryd Goundrey - Great Australian Stepson
24 Jo Gowda - Export Quality
101 Jordan Barr - Dog Why
70 Kate Dolan - The Critic
68 Kushi Venkatesh - Happy
74 Kyle Dolan - Please Hello
100 Late Night Comedy S**t Show (Hosted by Jason Pestell)
51 Laurence Driscoll - No, No, You First
50 Lena Moon - Rube Goldberg Machine
21 Leon Filewood - Whichway?
60 Lewis Garnham - Stream of Contentedness
25 Lindsay Webb - Woke Me Up Before You Go Go
26 Lizzy Hoo - Deja Hoo
36 Lloyd Langford - Powerful Energy
37 Lost In Translation
75 Love Hurts, Work Sucks: Comedians on Conflict & Communication
27 Luke Heggie - Yuck
89 Maren May - Reads Between No Lines
76 Marion Sunday Sessions
59 Mark Watson - Before It Overtakes Us
47 Matt Stewart - Bad Boy
103 Meg Jäger - Renaissance Woman
15 Michael Chamberlin - COMPLETELY INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN RULES
82 Mish Wittrup - OFF WITH HER HEAD
35 Nazeem Hussain - You Paid For This
94 Nick Capper - Oh No! It’s Capper
66 Nicolette Minster - Boredroom
18 Oliver Coleman - The Ballad of Oliver Coleman
96 Paul +1 (-1) presents POEMS
57 Peter James - Me, Again. Hello. [ENCORE]
71 Quonny and Qurbs - Sell Your Stuff
78 Ray O’Leary - Laughter? I Hardly Know Her
7 Rhino Room Late Show: 25 Years
23 Robyn Reynolds - What Doesn’t Kill You
20 Sammy Peterson - Why The Long Face
16 Sez - Keeps Me Young
29 Shad & Pete Save The World!
32 Shad Wicka - How I almost Killed A Guy
65 Suren Jayemanne - There’s A World Where My Head Ought Be
55 The Biggest Gaslighter in The World
92 The Stevenson Experience - O’Brother, Where Art Thou? (on stage, beside me)
73 Ting Lim - What I Really Think
95 Tom Cashman - 2 Truths, 1 Lie & 17 Slight Exaggerations
11 Tony Martin - GASBAG
72 Vanessa Lary Mitchell - Lube Me Alone
22 Vida Slayman - The Nutella Wars
40 Who Knew It With Matt Stewart (Podcast)
8 Wil Anderson - Whatchu Talkin’ ‘Bout Wil?
31 Will Gibb - Why Am I Like This?
79 Work Hates Podcast: LIVE
104 Zoë Coombs Marr - Every Single Thing In My Whole Entire Life