Chinatown Comedy Club
Event description
See some of Australia's best comedians at the Chinatown Comedy Club, the first comedy club ever to be located in Sydney's Chinatown. Presented by Soul of Chinatown, the inaugural CCC show will be hosted by our MC, Chris Nguyen, Located right in the heart of Chinatown at the historic Covent Garden Hotel, the awesome line-up of comedians include:
Jenny Tian
Jennifer Wong
Harry Jun
Patrick Golamco
He Huang
Suraj Kolarkar
All ticket holders will receive ONE FREE DRINK* courtesy of Covent Garden Hotel as a huge thanks for supporting the first Chinatown Comedy Club show, and Chinatown.
Date: 6pm-7.30pm, Wednesday 21 June
Address: Covent Garden Hotel, 1/102-108 Hay St, Haymarket
*complimentary drink includes house beer, wine, spirits, soft drink
Find out more about our awesome line-up of comedians below.
Chris Nguyen is an award-nominated Australian comedian, writer and producer. A regular at comedy clubs around Australia, he was recently invited to perform at the Very Big Very Asian Comedy Festival in New York.
Jenny Tian burst onto the stand-up scene in 2016 and has since become a regular around the Australian circuit. She's performed to sold out crowds at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Perth Fringe and Sydney Comedy Festival. If you’re wondering why she looks familiar, you’ve probably seen/heard her on your Instagram reels, TikTok, triple j and Celebrity Letters and Numbers on SBS.
Jennifer Wong is a Chinese-Australian writer, comedian, and MC based in Sydney. As a food enthusiast with a love of wordplay, she’s the presenter of Chopsticks or Fork?, a six-part AACTA-nominated ABC series on Chinese restaurants in regional Australia.
Harry Jun is a Sydney based comedian, host and cartoonist. He is the host of ABC Gamer's The Loot Drop, a weekly gaming news show with hot takes, sketches and silly jokes. He has performed across Australia in a bunch of cool venues including The Comedy Store Sydney, The Enmore Comedy Club and Comedy Republic, Melbourne. Harry sold out the Sydney Comedy Festival 2022 at The Enmore (Little Room) and in 2023, he was asked to perform for Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Comedy Up Late.
Patrick Golamco is a soft-spoken Chinese Australian comedian, and proud IT nerd. When he was ten, he used to put on one-kid shows with stuffed toys for his two younger sisters. They got a few laughs and it inspired him to do comedy. He placed runner-up in the 2020/21 Raw Comedy Competition, and performed in the Comedy Zone line-up last year, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Since He Huang auditioned for Australia's Got Talent and went globally viral, she has had a sold-out run at Sydney Comedy Festival this year, was named Best Emerging Artist 2022 Darwin Fringe and was a nominee for Best Newcomer, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023. She was named Best Newcomer, Sydney Comedy Festival 2023.
Suraj Kolarkar is a stand-up comic and actor, appearing on upcoming tv shows God's Favourite Idiot on Netflix (alongside Melissa McCarthy) and the Apple TV and Paramount epic Shantaram (alongside Charlie Hunnam) in 2022. He has performed everywhere from Melbourne Town Hall for SBS to aboard a moving train for Triple M.
ABOUT SOUL OF CHINATOWN
Soul of Chinatown is a community group that preserves the culture, history and tradition of Sydney’s Chinatown and its community, but also looks to the future. Founded by Hayden Wong, Kevin Cheng and Peter Wong in 2021, Soul of Chinatown aims to inspire and foster positive change in Chinatown through advocacy, community, events and storytelling.
Find them on Instagram @soulofchinatown
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