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  Sam Bowden

  Sam Bowden is a writer, actor and comedian who’s been plying his trade both here and in the UK since 2012. Having worked alongside the biggest names in comedy and opened for the likes of Danny Bhoy, Brian Posehn and Lawrence Mooney, Sam has taken shows to nearly every major arts festival in the country.

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  Aleks Milinkovic

  Aleks Milinkovic is a Sydney comedian you need to get familiar with, and fast. Born of Serbian heritage and raised in Brisbane, he eventually made the move to Sydney, a city he has lovingly described as "a cruel and hostile place", and has since established himself as one of the sharpest emerging voices in stand-up the city has produced in years. His Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queensland University of Technology probably explains why everything he does feels a bit more considered than your average open mic guy. On stage and online, the man delivers. Sketches racking up millions of views have introduced his hilarious wit to people who've never set foot inside a comedy club in their lives. What Aleks does better than almost anyone is take something completely ordinary and drag it somewhere wonderfully unhinged. His comedy is observational and deeply narrative — he builds from situations everyone recognises, the kind of thing you'd clock and forget about by lunchtime, then steers them somewhere you absolutely did not see coming. There's a warmth to it too, a conversational ease that makes you feel like you're just listening to a mate tell a story, right up until you realise you've completely been had. Sharp cultural observations, rich character work and big punchlines. That's the recipe. Years deep into the Sydney comedy scene, Aleks has opened for Luke Kidgell and James McCann, appeared at the 2023 Comedy Untamed Showcase, and co-hosts the five-star Apple Podcasts show "Whoa, Free Lunch!?" with Sam Bowden. In July 2025 he dropped his debut special "Live in Sydney (A Cruel & Hostile Place)", filmed at the Chippo Hotel, and it feels like everything he's been building toward since day one — and also very much like a beginning.

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  Stephanie Broadbridge

  Steph Broadbridge is a Sydney comedian who somehow turned a jazz vocals degree from ANU into a career making strangers laugh. That's not a pivot — that's a magic trick. She brings a perspective to stand-up that feels genuinely unlike anyone else working Sydney stages right now. Pick up a ukulele, tell raw personal stories, be relentlessly funny — Steph does all three, sometimes in the same set. Her shows go places other comedians won't. "Hot Chick/Tired Mum" at the Factory Theatre in 2021 turned heads, and "Breaking: The Musical" proved she can build an entire theatrical world from scratch using nothing but comedic instinct and sheer nerve. Fans have described her style as pitch-black humour wrapped in a warm hug, which is about as accurate as it gets — she tackles trauma, neurodiversity, and the beautiful chaos of everyday life without flinching, then makes you laugh at all of it. The facts are hard to argue with: 2019 RAW Comedy National Grand Finalist, over 300 gigs in a single year, and headline spots at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Fringe, Splendour in the Grass, and Sydney Comedy Festival 2025. A genuine fixture of the local scene, she's a familiar face at Kookaburra's Comedy and the stages that make Sydney's comedy circuit worth caring about.

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  James McCann

  James McCann was born in Adelaide in 1991, and he's been making up for lost time ever since. Stand-up comedian, writer, poet — the man contains multitudes. Thirteen consecutive Adelaide Fringe Festival runs built his reputation, with show titles like "Wolf Creek: The Musical", "The Sound of Nazis", and "McCann-dle in the Wind" doing most of the explaining so he doesn't have to. Three awards at the 2018 Adelaide Comedy Awards followed, including Comedian of the Year and Best Emerging Comedy, along with TV writing credits on Corey White's Roadmap to Paradise. He's also published three books of poetry and written essays for The Spectator, The Australian, and Quadrant. McCann's stand-up pulls from a creative brain that also writes music and poetry, which gives it a texture you don't often find in this game. Reviews have called him "utterly hilarious" with "distinctly enjoyable" originality — and that tracks. After opening for Mark Normand on the 2023 Fanny Guy tour, McCann relocated to Austin, Texas in 2024 and became a regular at the Comedy Mothership, opening for Shane Gillis. His 2024 Kill Tony appearances earned him Set of the Year in 2025, and YouTube specials "HEY AMERICA" and "BLACK ISRAELITE" have each cracked a million views. American audiences are catching on fast.

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