Tom Sainsbury has two shows at the Comedy Festival, Self Helped and Giggly Gerties.

More fodder for Urzila Carlson's new NZ International Comedy Festival show after meeting.

New breed of male comedians is giving macho swaggering and degrading put-downs big swerve.

Nic Sampson's new show is about fearing the consequences of not forwarding chain mail.

The Billy T Award nominees are a mightily talented bunch in 2018.

Angella Dravid has won the prestigious Billy T Award for 2017.

Rhys Mathewson hooks his audience in with his nifty, sarcastic delivery.

Eli Matthewson tells candid jokes with an engaging, animated delivery.

The English comedian had an instant rapport with a Kiwi audience.

The 2017 Billy T nominees perform for their toughest crowd yet: Their parents.

Guy Montgomery is intoxicating, enveloping and absurdly entertaining in his latest show.

From sex to delving into his porn addiction, this show is not for the faint hearted.

Paco Erhard might be German but he's genuinely funny.

Only in New Zealand? A travelling show about canines' comic capers rolls into town.

Comedian Nazeem Hussain tell us about his new show Public Frenemy.

Ed Byrne did his research before performing for the Kiwi crowd.

Rhys Nicholson's new show is a sparkling, rapid-fire hour of comedy.

If you're a comedy fan with commitment issues, The Best Comedy Show On Earth is for you.

Romesh Ranganathan could barely contain himself when hecklers took over his show.

We check out some of the best homegrown acts to hit the Comedy Festival.

"I'm not entirely sure how much I like the performing side of myself," he says.

The funniest comedian in the world explains the meaning of life to Karl Puschmann

Hal Cruttenden gives as a glimpse of his show to be presented in the 2017 Comedy Festival.

Romesh Ranganathan went from high school maths teacher to Bafta nominee.

Penny Ashton is swapping Jane Austen for Charles Dickens in her latest comic caper.

The home of Auckland's Classic Comedy Club has had a hard life. Matt Nippert reports.

The NZ Comedy Fest has dropped one of its most iconic venues and Kiwi comedians are not happy about it.

Natasha Hoyland used to be a homebody. Now she is forging a career as a stand-up comedian, a path she credits to YWCA's Future Leaders programme.

Mel Parsons is going on tour with the women behind hit comedy show The Bitches' Box.

When Sieni Leo'o Olo saw Massive Company perform for the first-time, she returned to drama classes at Aorere College and told her classmates "we're doing it all wrong, guys!"