Fri 25 Sep
6.30pm
CHRIS MCALLISTER – REPUTATION
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Sydney · 25 September 2026
Comedians playing Sydney between now and 20 November who you can watch first. Every name here has a recent English-language set on YouTube — names link to the clip, show titles link to tickets.
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Factory TheatreFactory Floor
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Factory Theatre3 nights
Factory Theatre2 nights
Factory TheatreFusebox3 nights
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Factory Theatre
Factory Theatre3 nights
Factory TheatreMatchbox3 nights
Factory Theatre3 nights
Factory TheatreMatchbox
Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Factory TheatreFactory Floor2 nights
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Factory TheatreFactory Floor
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Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Enmore Theatre
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Comedy Storemain room
Factory Theatre
Comedy Storemain room2 nights
Factory Theatre2 nights
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25 comedians playing the same eight weeks with nothing on YouTube to watch first — mostly debut hours in the Factory's small rooms. Described here the way their venue describes them.
Korinna Gouros·Factory TheatreMatchbox
Korinna’s hilarious stand-up comedy show spills the tea on her cult-like upbringing, retired-hot-girl past, toxic exes, and relentless pursuit of freedom.
Dez Craig·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Dez Craig was just another happily married man with a boring sex life.
Ponpon Huang·Comedy StoreComedy Store Too
“How Dare You – 看你好不好？” is an 60-minute bilingual Mandarin–English stand-up special by Taiwanese comedian Ponpon Huang.
Alex Gonzalez·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
In both her creative pursuits and in the story of her life, Alex Gonzalez often finds herself relegated to the B plot.
Paul Wild·Factory TheatreMatchbox
Calling a cynical control freak 'Wild' was a cruel joke by the universe, but he's learned to live with it.
Josh Shediak·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Due to overwhelming demand from my roommate to "go outside", I'm bringing a live hour of sketch comedy to the stage.
Gabrielle Dadgostar·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Eventually, you gotta accept you're the problem - But if you work So Frikkin Hard to fix it and it works!
Chris Marlton·Factory TheatreMatchbox
Come see Chris Marlton’s in-depth and absurd new show about investments, choices and transformation.
Roisin McAlinden·Factory Theatre
If you’ve come here looking for happily ever after, you’ve come to the wrong place.
Frankie Rowsthorn·Factory TheatreMatchbox
Hey it’s my first work in progress show!, I’ve put every joke I’ve ever written in it and some more!.
Yarno Rohling·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
From comedian Yarno Rohling comes an audience-driven, offbeat expedition with the world's most unremarkable adventurer as he tracks down the long-lost…
Joshua Khoury·Factory TheatreMatchbox
Joshua Khoury is the 2026 RAW National champion, and he was selected to perform in the Sydney Comedy Festival’s 2026 new talent showcase.
Carly Electric·Factory Theatre
Carly Electric is back to lay bare her inbox once more!
Andrew Stokes·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
Tired Trope is the debut show by Sydney comedian Andrew Stokes where he applies his twisted logic to the modern world.
Kathryn Bray·Factory TheatreFusebox
I shall becharmance you with my accomplishmentery.
Nadun Hettiarachchi·Factory Theatre
In 2017, Nadun Hetti was a teenager fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka, arriving in Australia with a suitcase, an accent, and a lot of unresolved trauma.
Ify Nwadiwe, Emily Louise·Comedy StoreComedy Store Too
Ify Nwadiwe and Emily Louise dive into Reddit's r/ relationship_advice subreddit and take you on a journey through relationship s’ up and downs.
Khaled Khalafalla·Comedy StoreComedy Store Too
Following a string of sold-out shows across Australia, Khaled Khalafalla returns with a new show that evolves to meet the moment.
Tanya Losanno·Factory Theatre
2 time Moosehead grant recipient (2005 and 2019), Tanya has written and performed 6 solo shows as part of numerous festivals throughout Australia.
Khaled Khalafalla·Factory Theatre
Following a string of sold-out shows across Australia, Khaled Khalafalla returns with a new show that evolves to meet the moment.
Khaled Khalafalla·Comedy Storemain room
Following a string of sold-out shows across Australia, Khaled Khalafalla returns with a new show that evolves to meet the moment.
Des Bishop·Comedy Storemain room
A rising star in the US and a massive name in Ireland, native New Yorker Des Bishop moved from Queens to Ireland in his mid-teens in 1990.
Rufus Rice·Factory Theatre
RUFUS RICE - RICE AGE A rambunctious evening of comedy and music from TikTok's favourite lovable rogue.
Neel Kolhatkar·Factory TheatreFusebox
You’ve seen the line games all over social media now come see it live.
Saaniya Abbas·Comedy Storemain room
Award-winning comedian Saaniya Abbas brings her internationally acclaimed hit HELLARIOUS to Australia for the first time.
Listings come from the four Century Venues sites — the Comedy Store at Moore Park, the Factory Theatre, the Enmore and the Metro — which all run on one system, so a single pass covers them. Everything filed under a comedy genre for the next eight weeks gets pulled, then reduced to shows that resolve to a named comedian.
Clips come from a YouTube search per comedian, scored toward a recent set of five to eight minutes long that is provably the right person. The Sydney Comedy Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival channels both post 4–8 minute festival sets, so those rank highest. A ? marks a match that is the best available rather than a festival set.
Clips must also be in English, checked against YouTube's own auto-captions rather than the title — several acts on this circuit perform in English in Sydney but post to YouTube in another language, and a title alone will fool you.
Requiring a clip skews hard toward acts with festival or television history — a first Fringe hour rarely has anything online yet. So the 25 comedians with no clip are still listed, under Also on, described in the words their venue used. No clip is a fact about YouTube, not a verdict on the comedian.
I checked the obvious ways to close that gap and none of them work: YouTube Shorts turned up something usable for roughly one comedian in eighteen, the venue pages carry no artist video at all, and the festival channels only feature acts already in the top section. These comedians aren't absent from long-form YouTube — they're absent from YouTube.