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Rhino Room Late Show 26
The longest running show at the Adelaide Fringe is back for its 26th year in 2026, the legendary Rhino Room Late Show.
Featuring 100+ different comedians from across the festival over 10 shows. A brand new, hand picked lineup every Friday and Saturday of Fringe, 10pm to midnight.
It’s the home grown gala featuring the funniest of the Fringe in full flight. You never know who you might see live on stage or at the bar and we will never tell, until we are there. This one rule has given the Rhino Room Late Show its not-so-secret identity as a hotspot for the best in the biz to come and play alongside the hilarious stars of tomorrow in the home of Adelaide Comedy.
A show that has always been for Adelaide Fringe fans & artists alike! Subscribe at AdelaideComedy.com
Lost in Translation
Your favourite movies translated badly.
Each night, we take a different classic film script, run it through an online translator a dozen times, and then read the results live on stage in character!
The final twist is that the guest stars read the scripts on stage for the first time.
To get the most enjoyment, we recommend you watch the film beforehand.
Tues 3 Mar – Twilight Wed 4 Mar – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Thurs 5 Mar – Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Fri 6 Mar – LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Sat 7 Mar – Mean Girls Sun 8 Mar – Back to the Future Tues 10 Mar – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Wed 11 Mar – The Mummy (1999) Thurs 12 Mar – LOTR: The Two Towers Fri 13 Mar – Casino Royale Sat 14 Mar – Titanic Tues 17 Mar – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Wed 18 Mar – Ghostbusters Thurs 19 Mar – Mean Girls Fri 20 Mar – LOTR: Return of the King Sat 21 Mar – Love Actually
Abby Howells – The Cave
Welcome to The Cave.
What is The Cave? Well, you’ll have to come to find out.
Does Abby know what The Cave is? Oh yeah, don’t worry about that.
The Cave is funny (hopefully hahahah)
The Cave is nice, I reckon come on in.
The Cave is presented by Abby Howells. Abby is best known for coming last on season five of Taskmaster NZ, but she gave it a really good go. She won NZ comedy’s prestigious Billy T Award in 2023 and can also be seen on Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee, 7 Days and Conan O’Brien Must Go.
“Gem of a show” ★★★★★ The Age
Directed by Carlo Ritchie
Ting Lim: You Pho Real?
The poster looks like Chinese propaganda, the title’s a Vietnamese pun, and I’m Chinese. None of it makes sense — and that’s kind of the point. You Pho Real is a bowl of contradictions left to simmer too long — a mix of “good intentions” that, when combined, look suspiciously like a manifesto.
It’s about juggling identities, expectations, and experiences that don’t fit. Ever had a doctor call you out for having a fat neck? Or lose weight because your dog’s fat? Exactly. Make it make sense.
It’s confusion served hot, garnished with trauma, and topped with a slice of “Is this for real?” It’s funny until it’s not — then it’s even funnier. A series of jokes that make as much sense as the poster.
Welcome to the contradiction buffet.
Succulent Comedy Showcase
The Succulent Comedy Showcase features Australia’s funniest upcoming Asian-Australian comedians. Don’t miss out on a deliciously hilarious time! A combination special of comedians, MSG guaranteed. The Succulent Comedy Showcase has toured their sold out show at festivals all around Australia including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival.
Past Featured Acts Include:
Jenny Tian (Taskmaster Australia, ABC, SBS, TikTok)
He Huang (Thank God You’re Here, Australia’s Got Talent, RAW National Finalist)
Takashi Wakasugi (Taskmaster Australia, Thank God You’re Here, MICF Gala)
Sath Nadesan (Yeah Mad)
Alan Fang (The OG Crew)
Vida Slayman – Vagina: The Visitor’s Guide
time we’ve got a map.
‘Vagina: The Visitor’s Guide’ is based on the premise that even those of us who own vaginas know so little about them that we may as well be renting. (Pop quiz: Do you know when the clitoris was first mapped by anatomists? The 1950s? Or even the 80s? It was in 2005!)
‘Vagina: The Visitor’s Guide’ is a funny fact-based guided tour through the history and science of the vagina. Well, not the vagina, but the vulva – which is the whole thing, not just the hole thing. For owners of vaginas, visitors to vaginas, and anyone who is vagina-adjacent.
Get your tickets before they sell out!
★★★★ “A funny, fierce female not afraid to lay everything bare.” GlamAdelaide
Tarang Hardiker – IF I’M NOT WRONG
Tarang Hardikar is a standup comedian popular for his unique observational style of comedy. Tarang brings to you his new comedy hour full of anecdotes about his bizarre childhood and his peculiar habit of questioning every minute aspect of life. Why has no one ever seen a growing coconut tree? Why is the biggest prize in sports a cup? Why didn’t you keep the paneer in the fridge?
Jodie J Hill – Whack Job! A True Horror About Real Estate
This show is therapy for real estate agents and a safe place for property tragics.
“Jodie J Hill’s show is a real-estate triumph. Very funny from start to finish with clever and witty insight into the bizarre world of selling houses and the ‘thruth’ about what goes on behind the scenes. Highly recommend.” Jane Gazzo, Broadcaster
“Great night. Big laughs. The t-shirt auction was the best of comedy I’ve seen in years. I’m sold.” – Tony Moclair, 3AW
Cath Styles – Shift
Cath Styles has been a psychiatric nurse for 36 years, and a comedian for 20 years. Between the two jobs, she’s never had a weekend off. EVER!
This is the show where both her worlds collide, and explores her on again, off again, mostly dysfunctional relationship with her (paying) job.
The dark, beautiful, sad, and sometimes just plain hilarious side of trying to help people hold on to their sanity, while desperately trying to keep a grip on your own, ‘Shift’ is a collection of touching (and twisted) tales of an enduring 36 year fling with psych nursing, flavoured with the dark humour of those on the front line.
A must see for nurses, patients, and everyone in-between, from a big heart with a black sense of humour.
Come join Cath on evening shift – so she can write this off on tax!
Thom Lion – Minor Keys & Major Issues
Podcast host, parent and one of Australia’s fastest-rising comedians, Thom Lion serves a laugh-out-loud mix of music, mayhem, and modern survival. Half-asleep, fully committed, Thom tackles awful conspiracy theories, parenting chaos, and questionable medical procedures with piano, ukulele, and belly laughs big enough to make you forget your own issues.
After surviving years on commercial radio at the KIIS and Hit Networks, Thom is now a writer & host at Mamamia – while deploying his songwriting in the comedy arena with a bang!
With songs tackling everything from asthma to Insta boyfriends, Thom Lion creates an unhinged and strangely uplifting look at the bizarre world we’re participating in today, he shows audiences why the only sane response is to laugh, sing, and maybe cry a little.
Harry Jun: Inside Jokes, Outside Voice
Inside jokes or “in-jokes” are jokes that are only understandable to people of a particular social group.
The social groups this comedy show is for
-People with active internet connections
-People with/without jobs
-North Koreans and also South Koreans I guess
-People whose Instagram and TikTok algorithm have betrayed them
-Fans of travelling
-Fans of bed rotting
-Mid 30s people who have started running
If u belong to any of these social groups, come to the show cos I think you’ll enjoy it. If you don’t belong to these groups, come anyway and grow as a person please.
Jazz King: Disposable
Chewed up and spat out by the advertising industry, but still swilling around in the mouth of comedy like a fine wine.
Ads suck, so this ex-award-winning copywriter and RAW Comedy national finalist is making things you actually want to see.
Maren May – Why haven’t you listened to that song I sent you?
Maren loves sending songs she likes to her friends and lovers but she is starting to think that maybe they don’t always listen to them? So she wrote a show about that.
This show is a love letter to music through a neurodivergent lens but you can view it through any kind of glasses, or none at all, it will still be enjoyable.
If you ever listened to the same song on repeat for hours on end, and didn’t even exaggerate when you say ‘hours on end’, this is for you.
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“A sharp eye for the absurd” Australian Arts Review
★★★★ Hugging Comedians
★★★★ “A crack up… even in her more serious stories, there is a delightful slice of silliness.” Fringefeed
★★★★ “A delightful night of laugh-out-loud jokes” What’s The Show
Rachael Hornbuckle – Skin Deep
A Cosmetic Nurse pursues perfection. A Comedian thrives on flaws. Rachael Hornbuckle is both and she’s going Skin Deep with her dark, hypnotic comedy, birthed in rough QLD pubs and delivered in a born-for-Melbourne package that’s part glamour, part bogan, full comedy savage. Skin Deep explores self-worth, vanity, beauty, chaos, and comebacks — a show about smoothing out the flaws we can’t hide.
“An undeniable stand-out from last year’s Comedy Zone, Hornbuckle couples an absorbing stage presence with politically charged quips to lustrous effect. Her final joke might just be the best one-liner at this year’s festival.” Funny Toones
Not to be missed.
Holographic Charizard
At the 2025 Adelaide Fringe we pulled a Holographic Charizard live on stage. Come see if we can do it again!
This is the show for Pokemon Fans. Every song is about Charizard, interspersed with stories that take you on a journey of love, betrayal, hardship and humour. The show mixes comedy, acoustic guitar, booster packs, magic and other spectacles alongside positive and uplifting crowd interactions (unless they are squirtle fans).
You will hear all the nostalgic cult classics including ‘A song about Charizard’, ‘I choose you Charizard’ and ‘Why did you have to leave me Charizard’. Along with a song written entirely in Indonesian, ‘lagu lagu Charizard harus Dangdut la’.
Pokemon knowledge is not required but encouraged. Everyone who attends will receive a free Pokemon card.
Free Pokemon cards will be given out at the door, prior to show start time. Late comers may not receive a card.
Louisa Jones – 9 Year Drought
Join Louisa for a hilarious severe weather briefing on her 9 year drought, detailing the ups and downs, or, more accurately, lack of ups and downs, of her rainless-but-joyful existence.
Sashi Perera – Pear Tree
Sashi’s family name – Perera – means pear tree in Portuguese. It’s a common name in Sri Lanka where Sashi was born but never lived. Till a series of pear-shaped events saw her move back to where it all began with her white Australia husband in tow.
‘Pear Tree’ is a stand-up comedy show about that. It traverses family, love, legacies, homes, knives, race, cats and kids – spliced with a little geopolitics and singing. As with her last show Boundaries (now on YouTube), Sashi’s signature observational humour remains dedicated to taking absolutely nothing too seriously.
Sashi is a comedian, writer and recovering lawyer. Sri Lankan born and Australian raised, she’s now one of Australia’s fastest rising comedians, known for her sharp wit, unique international tales and bizarre insights.
Gordon Southern: Great Southern Man
3 x Perth Fringe World Comedy Award Winner. Adelaide Fringe Comedy Award Winner 2022.
New jokes and stories from the globe-trotting Brit who now calls Australia home. Following on from his “accidental Covid trilogy” and the barnstorming success of “A Brief History of History”, this is a return to proper no-frills stand-up and high-voltage anecdotage from one of the best in the business.
“Fresh and relatable… plenty of laughter, astoundment and unavoidable smiles” ★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser, 2022
“Inclusive and genuinely funny… A glittering jewel.” ★★★★ X-Press Magazine, 2020
“Joy personified” ★★★★ Herald Sun, 2019
“Full to bursting with comedic gold“ ★★★★★ Broadway Baby, 2017
Oh, and he wrote a film that won six awards but doesn’t like to bang on about it.
Coming Soon To Adelaide Comedy
Week Four of Fringe – 17th – 21st Mar
Rhino Room Late Show, Lost In Translation, Abby Howells, Friendly Jordies, Ting Lim, Succulent Comedy Showcase, Vida Slayman, Lewis Garnham, Tarang Hardiker, Jodie J Hill, Cath Styles, Thom Lion, Harry Jun, Jazz King, Maren May, Rachael Hornbuckle, Holographic Charizard, Louisa Jones, Sashi Perera, Gordon Southern, Vanessa Larry Mitchell, Dance Club Flash Mob Party, Barry Potter and the Magic of Wizardry and our last show of the Adelaide Fringe Rachel’s Party at the Rhino Room Late Show.
Adelaide Comedy is Proud to Support the Best Comedy Award at the Adelaide Fringe.
Congratulations to all the the weekly award winners so far including Ivan Aristeguieta, Charlie Mulliner, Nikki Britton, Anisa Nandaula, Celia Pacquola, Tape Face, CVNT, Granny Flaps, Casey Filips, Elf Lyons and Nath Valvo. Don’t miss last years winner Garry Starr: Classic Penguins
Coming Soon After Fringe
Craig Egan’s 50th Birthday Adelaide Comedy Showcase,
Brett Blake, Connor Burns, Jimmy Carr, Alfred Adriaan, Tom Sainsbury, Jarryd Goundrey, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow much more.
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Clip of the Week
Take a stroll down 25 years of Adelaide Comedy gold!
We’re celebrating our quarter-century in 2025 with regular blasts from the past on our socials. Posting classic posters and throwback photos of the incredible acts who’ve lit up the Adelaide Comedy stages over the last 25 years.
How many legends have you seen live?
25 Years of Posters : EP1, EP2, E3, EP 4.
25 Years of Pictures : EP1, EP2, E3, EP 4 & EP5.
Comedian Retrospectives.
Flashback photo reels of some of the Adelaide Comedy legends.
Justin Hamilton, Frehd Starr, Lori Bell, Jason Pestell, Mickey D,
The Beards, Kel Balnaves, Big Al & Emily Grace. More Coming Soon.
Flashback photo reels of some of the Adelaide Comedy legends.
Justin Hamilton, Frehd Starr, Lori Bell, Jason Pestell, Mickey D,
The Beards, Kel Balnaves, Big Al & Emily Grace. More Coming Soon.
Testimonials
Walking through the doors of the Rhino Room always reminds me of what I like about comedy. In the dirty little green room all are equal. Reputations are left at the door. New comics swap punch-lines with people you would normally only see on the TV. But if a comedian is killing on stage, then the backstage empties and every comic is found side stage, watching, laughing, riding the energy of the gig. The outside world doesn’t exist. It’s all about the show.
Wil Anderson
I love the Rhino Room because it’s the best comedy room in Adelaide. As for the bar … I can always remember walking in but I can never remember walking out. Too much fun.
Tom Gleeson
Gold Logie Winner, Hard Chat and Hard Quiz
What I love about the Adelaide Comedy Gigs is that apart from the providing the opportunity to see top-line comedy acts at about half the price you would pay to see them during the Fringe. There’s somewhere I can go to forget my troubles for a few hours and have a good laugh. It’s the best form of therapy I know! And as a regular comedygoer, it’s fascinating to watch the comedians (and even individual jokes) develop over time. Plus there’s the satisfaction of knowing that when some of the current crew make it big (which they will), I’ll be able to say “I saw them before they were famous…”
David Hyland
I love Adelaide Comedy because it is a symbol of fun, laughter, friendship and family. It has given me so many wonderful memories in the past few years, and I know it will always be a part of my laugh, whether I be behind the scenes or in the audience. So much love for AC and everyone who help to make it happen.
Lauren ‘Lolly Dolly’ Thiel
The Rhino Room is not only a great venue to see comedy; it’s also THE place to go for a drink if you want to view the comedians in their natural habitat.
Arj Barker
The perfect comedy oasis for great comics to play and create.
Greg Fleet
