Darwin Comedy Festival

The biggest comedy event of 2025 is coming your way! Darwin Entertainment Centre presents Darwin Comedy Festival, bringing unstoppable laughter to the Top End in March 2025. Performing in Darwin for the first time, international superstar Celeste Barber brings her new show Backup Dancer to comedy fans. Nazeem Hussain returns to Darwin to get the crowd laughing with his new show You Paid For This. Sammy J returns in a time-bending memoir that bounces through the life of a recovering attention seeker in The Kangaroo Effect. Genre-bending cabaret sensation Reuben Kaye returns to Darwin in an explosion of risqué humour with The Party’s over. For younger audiences, the award-winning circus and comedy show Children Are Stinky will bring high-energy hilarity for all ages, while Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Class Clowns will offer teens the opportunity to step into the spotlight. More announcements coming shortly. No matter what tickles your funny bone, you’ll find it at Darwin Comedy Festival next March!