Thu 1 – Sat 3 Oct
6.45pm
FREDDIE MCMANUS (FEAT. FREDDIE MCMANUS)
Factory TheatreFusebox3 nights
Sydney · 1 October 2026
Comedians playing Sydney between now and 22 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.
Factory TheatreFusebox3 nights
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Factory TheatreMatchbox3 nights
Factory Theatre3 nights
Factory TheatreMatchbox
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Factory TheatreFactory Floor2 nights
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Factory Theatre
Every show with a clip in this window has already started. The next batch lands when the radar next runs, 9am Friday.
13 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.
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…
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.
Rufus Rice·Factory Theatre
RUFUS RICE - RICE AGE A rambunctious evening of comedy and music from TikTok's favourite lovable rogue.
Saaniya Abbas·Comedy Storemain room
Award-winning comedian Saaniya Abbas brings her internationally acclaimed hit HELLARIOUS to Australia for the first time.
Peter Kypri·Factory TheatreFactory Floor
THIS BETTER BE FUNNY MALAKA Peter Kypri (CYP) returns with his brand-new stand-up comedy show, “This Better Be Funny Malaka” a night of relatable stories…
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 13 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.