The Liberal Agenda – Basement Theatre

For starters, you’ll be served up a piping hot tasting tray of Improv Soup! Let the Head Chef tantalise your comedic tastebuds as they lead a team of budding Sous Chefs to compete head-to-head in improvised scenes, competing for -you guessed it- SOUP. Only one improvisor is the winner, but everyone takes home soup.

For mains, it’s a smorgasbord of queer chaos with the variety show Can’t Think Straight! Comedians, Muso’s, Drag Artists and Theatre-Makers take the stage however they want and serve you piping hot talent in this unashamedly queer, experimental Variety show.

And you best believe you’ll be ordering dessert because everyone’s fave Comedy lineup show, Femmes & Thems, is here to leave you with something sweet from some of Aotearoa’s Women & Gender-nonconforming Comedians!

Whether you join us for one course or for all three, we can’t wait to have you join us for the Comedy Culture Holiday Feast.

(p.s. in case our writing was too evocative, this is just to make it VERY clear the feast is ART and COMEDY and unless you win SOUP during Improv Soup there isn’t a food-based feast happening at these shows)

Tuesday – Improv Soup (improv)
Wednesday – Can’t Think Straight (variety show)
Thursday – Femmes and Thems (comedy)

There will be food, games, presents and stories. This isn’t your standard line up show, this is a holiday hug, as our friends new and old share what Christmas means to them.

Join us for an evening of feasting, frivolity, and Christmas comedy.

Hosted by Bailey Poching
With Special Guests Janaye Henry, Robbie Nicol, Liv McKenzie, and Jamaine Ross

Presented by The Push

Line Up: Ethan Christensen, Hebe Kearney, Laura Vincent, Marcus Mackenzie, Zephyr Zhang and Janaye Henry is MC

The Rawdog Gaysian Playwright Challenge: Holey Gay Periodt!

This year, we dare four queer Asian writers to create the play they’d least want to write; in just three days. Each writer delivers a short duologue or monologue themed around the silly season, sealed in an envelope until showtime.

On the night, actors are cast from the audience for chaotic cold readings of each brand-new piece.

The result is the worst delivery of the queer agenda you’ve ever experienced. An experiment in queer joy, failure and some kind of silly spirit that embraces the hideousness of the season.

This silly season Live Reel is here to spread their own brand of chaotic Christmas cheer as a line-up of some of Auckland’s best comedians perform three of your favourite holiday films live from memory!

Thursday 4th – HouseSwap Holiday (The Holiday) – SOLD OUT
Thursday 11th – Culkin Takes Manhattan (Home Alone 2) – SELLING FAST
Saturday 13th – McClane on a Plane (Die Hard 2)

And best of all, like a rigged secret santa, the power is in your hands! Follow @livereelnz on instagram where you can nominate and vote for your favourite Christmas movies – ultimately deciding which of the classics we’ll bring to the stage.

Three nights! Three different Chrissy classics! Three nights of guaranteed laughs.

Hosted by Nicky Vella.
Starring a line-up of special guests to be announced.

The world’s heating up, going wild, and Hoani Hotene is trying to get through it all with what…? Jokes Yep.

Hoani brings his personal style of comedy in a show about finding your place and getting by in a crazy world. See one of Aotearoa’s best up-and-coming comedians talk about ‘What Now?’ at his kura kaupapa, trying to grow up at 30, and honestly a bunch of other good stuff.

Courtney brings effortless charm and gags aplenty while Janaye brings effortful charm and long-winded stories. Together, they have more chemistry than your aunt and her prosecs on Christmas day.

Skip the late night Westfield trips, the office Christmas party and come celebrate the silly season with Courtney and Janaye. It’s the Christmas comedy gift you didn’t know you needed!

We’re putting a festive twist on our improv for the silly season. Grab your gladrags and gather your mates for two nights of never-before-seen, totally made-up, improvised comedy.

It’s your last chance to see this herd of Tāmaki Makaurau’s best and brightest performers before the year is out. Bull Rush is always a bucking good time.

A live performance clash where dance meets spoken word, and each duo weaves movement and poetry to tell a single story.

Eight dancers. Eight poets. One stage.

It’s a battle like no other and only one duo will rise to claim the title of FLOETRY Champion and take home $500 cash!

Join your host James Mustapic alongside some of the best and brightest LGBTQ+ comedians our country has to offer, as they rejoice in the year that’s been, with some holiday cheer and cheeky tales that are sure to leave you feeling merry and bright. Let’s get this Christmas roast cooking!

Lineup: James Mustapic, Brynley Stent, Liv Ward and Emerson Betteridge

A show about Kata’s (laughter) and conundrums, the more you drink the more you enjoy the show.

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS MANdatory.

Afio mai, the fafalina antics are about to ensue!

Get your Christmas Crack-Ups with the Don’t Quit Your Day Job Team, featuring a bunch of your favourite comedians as they try to prove they’re capable of doing a job in the real world.

With two back-to-back shows we’ll be testing these comics on their knowledge, improv and practical skills arounds jobs relating to Christmas.

Hoani Hotene hosts, while two teams of comedians know their knowledge and improv skills to show that they’re more than just punchlines and the rule of threes. If you enjoy shows like QI and Thank God You’re Here this is the show for you!

Pay-What-You-Can

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