Jeromaia Detto is a baby sat in front of a wall of portraits depicting other babies doing grown up jobs.

Comedy

Jeromaia Detto: When I Grow Up...

Award-winning expert in play Jeromaia Detto is back with his most ambitious show yet! What did you want to be when you grew up? A doctor? A florist? Maybe you wanted to be a fish! Whatever the dream, Jeromaia will bring it to life with a stage full of costumes and a heart full of imagination, creating a brand-new show each night based on your childhood dreams.  

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

A girl smiling on a bus

Comedy

Grace Jarvis: Just Because I'm Crying Doesn't Mean I'm Not Having a Nice Time

A new hour of stand-up comedy from the Antipodes' most verbose and melancholy good time gal. Grace Jarvis is excited to regale audiences with her tales of living overseas, falling in love, working in a sex shop and getting into notable scrapes on public transport. In the midst of her obligatory move to the UK from Australia,  

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:50 pm

Underbelly George Square

Eli matthewson stares at the camera terrified in bed at night.

Comedy

Eli Matthewson: Night Terror

In 2023 my boyfriend tried to kill me in my sleep. We are still going strong. This is a story about theft, anxiety and unforgettable biscuits. A new hour of comedy from one of NZ's best. As seen on Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Have You Been Paying Attention? NZ, Celebrity Treasure Island. Winner – Best Comedy Dunedin Fringe 2024. Winner – Fred Award 2021 NZ International Comedy Festival.

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:50 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man with an orange ruff, his upper half is undressed and his lower body is the body of a penguin.

Comedy

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

Literature! Literature! Literature! It might not rhyme with anything but it's still very important.​ Garry Starr is back and he's hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. Mostly naked (but with flippers). Comic wunderkind Starr takes us on a literary adventure through the world's most iconic works of fiction. From The Little Prince to Moby Dick and everything in between, nothing is safe from being lampooned with the utmost nincompoopery. 'A very funny man who is peculiarly averse to wearing trousers' ***** (Scotsman).

30 July - 25 August 2025, 9:30 pm

Underbelly George Square