SAT 3 SEPT
CONCERT HALL
From early success with Monty Python's Flying Circus via countless hit movies to the distilled essence of comedy perfection that is Fawlty Towers, John Cleese is a towering talent who straddles decades and generations. This is an event you'll never forget!
THU 1 & SUN 4 SEPT
CONCERT HALL
2nd SHOW ANNOUNCED!
After the first show sold out in the blink of an eye, we've added a second Dylan Moran performance to conclude the inaugural Just For Laughs festival… you'll see why they call him 'The Oscar Wilde of Comedy'.
FRI 2 SEPT
CONCERT HALL
The undisputed queen of transgressive humour and not-so-subtle subversion, Margaret Cho, returns to Sydney for a Sydney Opera House debut performance that'll make those big white sails blush bright red.
SUN 4 SEPT
CONCERT HALL
Iconoclastic, courageous and a true original, C.K. has become the comedian's comedian, a multi-Emmy nominee; the award-winning writer for Letterman, Conan, and Chris Rock; Louis C.K. is admired by his peers as much as by his audiences.
FRI 2 SEPT
CONCERT HALL
One of comedy's greatest chameleons, the multi-talented multi-artform performer who has kept the world laughing for four decades. Martin Short's career exploded onto the world stage after successful stints on Second City Television and Saturday Night Live, before branching out into all aspects of stage and screen.
SUN 4 SEPT
OPERA THEATRE
Totally plugged in to the new world of social media, using drawing, music, graphs, charts and Powerpoint on stage, this is new comedy for the 21st Century, with real intelligence, a razor wit and gloriously unexpected punchlines that will leave your head spinning.
SUN 4 SEPT
OPERA THEATRE
Russell Howard has shot to prominence as one of the UK’s most successful live comedians, having just played to more than 240,000 fans over nineteen nights on his last UK arena tour Right Here, Right Now.