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.

Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson joins Tristram Clayton and tells us a bit about his show.

The Big Show offers some of the best value laughs at the Comedy Festival.

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.

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!"

Away from bright lights and big crowds, Joanna Mathers asks why lesser-known mortals would want to stand up and tell jokes to a bunch of hostile strangers.

Get off the beaten track and keep an emergency credit card safely hidden.

Comedian Paul Ego has passed on the gift of the gab to his boy Gabe. Father and son talk to Dionne Christian

Here are five new comedy festival acts you should be intrigued by.

We ended up at a hotel that had its glory days in the 70s, it was huge with practically no guests in it.

Last year, it staged 111 shows - 62 in its regular programme, 23 in the Fringe, 26 in the NZ Comedy Festival and more than 100 "other" events.

I entered an underground fight club on Phi Phi Island in Thailand a couple years ago. They put me up against an actual K1 fighter. Needless to say, the fight didn't last long.

Noel Fielding took to the stage and embraced the bare accoutrements of traditional stand-up comedy, writes Karl Puschmann.

It might be years since the end of The Mighty Boosh, but the local following that Noel Fielding earned from the surreal show will be welcoming him to this year's comedy festival.

I have never been a big fan of comedians who resort to crude, shock humour, riddled with curse words that would make a sailor proud. So it was refreshing to get along to Wash Your Mouth Out, at Vault at the Q Theatre, in Auckland.

Miles Allen was a struggling actor in LA when his Breaking Bad impressions went viral, making him one of the hottest tickets at this year's Comedy Festival. He talks, in many voices, to Chris Schulz.

Colin Hay, the singer of Men At Work classics like 'Down Under', returns to Auckland as part of this year's comedy festival.

21 comics over three-and-a-half hours became 'comedy as punishment' at last night's Comedy Gala.