Comedy News - Live Nation & Jubilee Street Management announce a blockbuster of comedy shows for 2025
/ Megan MossPresented by: Live Nation & Jubilee Street Management
Live Nation and Jubilee Street Management today announce an impressive lineup for the 2025 Australian and New Zealand comedy festival seasons including outstanding comics touring stand-alone headline shows.
Get ready to laugh with the funniest comedians Australia and New Zealand have to offer through the 2025 comedy festival season. Live Nation will tour the Tasman’s favourite and funniest comics including Nazeem Hussain, Ray O’Leary, Melanie Bracewell, Chris Parker, Guy Williams, Bron Lewis, Cameron James, and Becky Lucas with more comedy tours to be announced soon. Urzila Carlson and Guy Montgomery will also cross the ditch next year having recently announced tours, with tickets on sale now.
On the Aussie side of the ditch comics Nazeem Hussain, Bron Lewis, Cameron James and Becky Lucas will tickle your funny bone. Filling out the Kiwi contingent for the laugh-a-thon will be Melanie Bracewell, Chris Parker, Guy Williams and Ray O’Learybringing the giggles. New shows will deliver fresh funnies for fans with the artists touring festivals including Perth Fringe Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Canberra Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Perth Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival and New Zealand Comedy Festivals.
Undeniable tour de force of the comedy world South African-New Zealander, Urzila Carlson will kick off her Aussie Tour for YOU DON’T SAY (a show born out of sarcasm and storytelling) at Melbourne International Comedy Festival before taking on the rest of Australia. Guy Montgomery, the Award-winning Kiwi comedian, podcaster and improviser will traverse Australia with the I’VE NOTICED SO MANY THINGS, IT’D BE UNFAIR TO KEEP THEM TO MYSELF Tour kicking shows off at Adelaide Fringe Festival.
My Live Nation members can be among the first to secure tickets to all shows during the pre-sale period starting at 10 am (local), Thursday, November 14.
Tickets for all seasons go on sale at 10 am (local), Friday, November 15. For complete tour and ticketing details, visit: livenation.com.au and livenation.co.nz
Much loved Australian comedian Nazeem Hussain hot on the heels of his 2024 hit TOTALLY NORMAL will present his brand-new show YOU PAID FOR THIS, presumptive selling at its best! Ray O’Leary known for Taskmaster, Have You Been Paying Attention? and Best Show Nominee at the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival will present sixty minutes of the finest stand-up he’s come to be known for with LAUGHTER? I HARDLY KNOW HER! Melanie Bracewell (The Cheap Seats, Taskmaster (NZ), Have You Been Paying Attention and Thank God You're Here) on the cusp of turning thirty will unpack her twenties with much hilarity in A LITTLE TREAT. Chris Parker is ready to face the drama queen allegations head-on in STOP BEING SO DRAMATIC whilst Guy Williams, Host of “New Zealand Today” (TV3 NZ/ Youtube) and Nominated for “Most Outstanding Show” at the 2023 Melbourne Comedy Festival will present the hilariously long titled IF YOU MILDLY CRITICISE ME I’LL SAY I’TS CANCEL CULTURE AND TURN TO THE ALT RIGHT. Canberra-born ex highschool teacher Bron Lewis reflects on a lifetime of trying to avoid learning in WHO’S TALKING?! while MICF Best Show Nominee, SCF Director’s Choice Winner, and self-proclaimed Bad Boy of Musical Comedy Cameron James will deliver his biggest rock n roll show yet with the musical comedy BROKEN RECORDS - hilarious true stories coupled with cutting cultural commentary, to full-blown pop songs. Rounding out the line-up Becky Lucas (MICF Gala and author of “Acknowledgements”) the only female Aussie comic to have performed on the Conan O’Brien show promises to text you something funny with THINGS HAVE CHANGED, BUT THE ESSENCE REMAINS.
You’ll want to jump on tickets early for this world-class lineup of Aussie and Kiwi comics guaranteed to put a smile on your dial.
TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS ON SALE FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15 AT 10AM (local)
My Live Nation members can be among the first to secure tickets to all shows during the pre-sale period starting at 10 am (local), Thursday, November 14.
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: livenation.com.au and livenation.co.nz
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