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Six daring comedians take on The Dice of Destiny (cue lightning crash! ⚡), crafting comedy on the spot in this wild, hig...
27/04/2026

Six daring comedians take on The Dice of Destiny (cue lightning crash! ⚡), crafting comedy on the spot in this wild, high-stakes improv stand-up show. With sold-out runs at Whangarei Fringe, multiple NZ Comedy Guild Award nominations, and SOLD OUT in 2025's Nz Comedy Festival, The Dice Show is unpredictable, fast, and always hilarious.

Starring your new favourite comedians!
🎲 Bridget Davies (7 Days and Nz Comedy Fest 2025 & 2023)
🎲 Courtney Dawson (7 Days, Celebrity Treasure Island, Best Newcomer NZICF 2024, Peachy Keen NZICF26)
🎲 George Fenn (Sexy Ghost Boy (Adelaide Fringe) Side Walker (nz fringe), Solo Yeet)
🎲 Steven Lyons (Warm up 7 Days & Taskmaster Nz, The Ruckus, The Dice Show NZICF 2026)
🎲 Bridie Thomson (NYPDeez Nuts, Femmes & thems NZICF26, The Bridie & Rebecca Variety Show 2026)
🎲 Joel Vinsen (2026 Billy T nominee, Renaissance Man NZICF 2026, Love Lamp, 2025 Best Joke NZCG Awards)

Audiences have raved: “FANTASTIC show… completely bonkers, witty, fast, engaging; and behind the chaos, beautifully structured.” Brilliant! What a wild ride!

Dice Show: The Improvised Stand Up Comedy, Chaos and Panel Show!
Tues 28th Apr, 7:30 PM @ Whammy Bar

25/04/2026

FESTIVAL FANS DOUBLE DIP WITH US! Just can’t wait for the comedy fest to kick off next month and want to see what comedy Auckland is cooking up? We will honour your Dice Show NZICF26 tickets next Tuesday at Whammy Bar. Screenshot your festival ticket and email it to [email protected] your name on the door for an epic pre fest party show. Double dip and check out this incredible line up!

Tues April 28 features:
Bridget Davies (7 Days and Nz Comedy Fest 2025 & 2023)
Courtney Dawson (7 Days, Celebrity Treasure Island, Best Newcomer NZICF 2024, Peachy Keen NZICF26)
George Fenn (Sexy Ghost Boy (Adelaide Fringe) Side Walker (nz fringe), Solo Yeet)
Steven Lyons (Warm up 7 Days & Taskmaster Nz, The Ruckus, The Dice Show NZICF 2026)
Bridie Thomson (NYPDeez Nuts, Femmes & thems NZICF26, The Bridie & Rebecca Variety Show 2026)
Joel Vinsen (2026 Billy T nominee, Renaissance Man NZICF 2026, Love Lamp, 2025 Best Joke NZCG Awards)

23/04/2026

The Dice Show returns to the 2026 NZ International Comedy Festival! The team talks VeggieTales and Steven Lyons discovers how to get uninvited to Easter with his fan casting pitch to the panel of Rebecca Mary Gwendolon, Nick Rado, Izzy Renton, Josh Thomson and Michelle Wiley in our March show. What will we discover in moment at this year’s festival?

🎲 THE DICE SHOW NZICF26 🎲
The Dice Show sees an ever changing panel of six daring comedians take on The Dice of Destiny (cue lightning crash! ⚡), crafting comedy on the spot in this wild, high-stakes improv stand-up show. With sold-out runs at Whangarei Fringe, multiple NZ Comedy Guild Award nominations, and SOLD OUT in 2025's Nz Comedy Festival, The Dice Show is unpredictable, fast, and always hilarious.

For those who read captions here are some of our festival line ups:
🗓️ May 5: Emmanuel Sonubi, Hoani Hotene, Rebecca Mary Gwendolon, Tama Alexander + more
🗓️ May 12: Alan McElroy, Annie Guo, Bridie Thomson, Jessie Nixon, Robyn Reynolds, Steven Lyons
🗓️ May 19: Harriet Moir, Steven Lyons + more wonderful acts from across the fest.

🎟️ For tickets and the full programme check out comedyfestival.co.nz

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(BONUS PRE-FEST PARTY SHOW Tues 28th Apr at Whammy. Hit up Humanitix if youd like to see a mix of festival guests like Courtney Dawson, Joel Vinsen and Steven Lyons with Dice Show friends Bridget Davies, Bridie Thomson & George Fenn.)
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✨ Friends of Paper Goat: Sexy Ghost Boy ✨Our friend and theatre maven George Fenn is bringing the cult classic performan...
22/04/2026

✨ Friends of Paper Goat: Sexy Ghost Boy ✨
Our friend and theatre maven George Fenn is bringing the cult classic performance that has blown minds across Nz and Australia to Tamaki Makaurau. 

Begin with a circle. Work your way up, slowly. Bravely. The Macarena happens to completion. Scream. This is how you summon ‘Sexy Ghost Boy,’ an award winning and hilariously f***able spirit, described by witnesses as a hot mess mash up of Mr Bean and Marina Abramović. It is very funny. Never be the same in a very cool way.

“I feel like I am floating.” – Art Murmurs

“Its hot, but not dirty. It’s Pleasure Activism” – Audience Member

🗓️Date: Thursday, 23th April
Doors: 7:40 pm

📍Location: The Button Factory, 2 Abbey St, Auckland

R18+ | Contains Sexual Content and Humour

🎟️ Tickets: https://thebuttonfactory.co.nz/events/sexy-ghost-boy/

The Dice Show returns next Tuesday 28 Apr and we’d like to introduce our wonderful line up of your new favourite comedia...
21/04/2026

The Dice Show returns next Tuesday 28 Apr and we’d like to introduce our wonderful line up of your new favourite comedians! Don't miss the comedy chaos - One night only, literally.

🎲 Bridget Davies (7 Days and Nz Comedy Fest 2025 & 2023)
🎲 Courtney Dawson (7 Days, Celebrity Treasure Island, Best Newcomer NZICF 2024, Peachy Keen NZICF26)
🎲 George Fenn (Sexy Ghost Boy (Adelaide Fringe) Side Walker (nz fringe), Solo Yeet)
🎲 Steven Lyons (Warm up 7 Days & Taskmaster Nz, The Ruckus, The Dice Show NZICF 2026)
🎲 Bridie Thomson (NYPDeez Nuts, Femmes & thems NZICF26, The Bridie & Rebecca Variety Show 2026)
🎲 Joel Vinsen (2026 Billy T nominee, Renaissance Man NZICF 2026, Love Lamp, 2025 Best Joke NZCG Awards)

Audiences have raved: “FANTASTIC show… completely bonkers, witty, fast, engaging; and behind the chaos, beautifully structured.” “Brilliant! What a wild ride!”

💜💜💜 To celebrate this wonderful line up we’ve put 20 half price tix aside just for you! Simply use the promo code “DICE241APR” at Humanitix.co.nz to get your ticket for just $14 (while they last) 💜💜💜

😍 PLUS - The Dice Show is coming to the NZ International Comedy Festival in May!!! Featuring acts from across the festival 😍

20/04/2026

The Dice Show returns to the 2026 NZ International Comedy Festival! Here Steven Lyons riffs on rum and Pirates, arrrr indeed. What will we discover in moment at this year’s festival? Cast announcement coming soon, but if you read captions here it is right now: we’ve already confirmed a bunch of wonderful acts from around Nz and are just confirming our internationals because jet fuel is expensive.

🎲 THE DICE SHOW NZICF26 🎲
The Dice Show sees an ever changing panel of six daring comedians take on The Dice of Destiny (cue lightning crash! ⚡), crafting comedy on the spot in this wild, high-stakes improv stand-up show. With sold-out runs at Whangarei Fringe, multiple NZ Comedy Guild Award nominations, and SOLD OUT in 2025's Nz Comedy Festival, The Dice Show is unpredictable, fast, and always hilarious.

For tickets and the full programme check out comedyfestival.co.nz

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18/04/2026

🎉 Thanks for joining us for a wild ride of joyous chaos, culminating in Act 2 director Bridie Thomson and the crew discovered joy, darkness and Mrs Honeypot in ‘Paulhood’ an improvised play that asks what if it all went to hell in a handbag and back again? 🙌🙌🙌

Audience, you were playful, confused, supportive, celebratory and all the things that we could ask for when staging an absurd improvised theatre experiment. Don't worry, the crew will be back next month on May 12th!

In the meantime don’t miss out on ensemble members shows coming up in the NZ Comedy Fest like The Bridie & Rebecca Variety Show and The Dice Show NZICF 2026. Plus for the next two Thursdays at Move Space you can see Gareth hosting his work in progress panel show Garithmatic! (It is absolutely bonkers fun)

Thank you for coming out and supporting improvised joys with This Might Get Weird! 🙌🎶

Auckland Improv

WONDERFUL PAPER GOATERS, did you know that tickets are on sale now for a very special The Dice Show NZICF 2026? We are r...
16/04/2026

WONDERFUL PAPER GOATERS, did you know that tickets are on sale now for a very special The Dice Show NZICF 2026? We are rocking the Basement Theatre every Tuesday night for your comedy sampler of the week to come. Featuring wonderful guests from the NZ International Comedy Festival all riffing and rolling together with the audience to make a night of comedy chaos and joy like no other.
For more info and too see what else is cooking in the festival head to https://www.comedyfestival.co.nz/find-a-show/the-dice-show/

13/04/2026

THIS TUESDAY MIGHT GET WEIRD
Gareth casts Steven in the sequel to Cats… Dolphins! With Greg on the keys and caffeine in our hearts chaos ensues…

Debuting in Chicago, This Might Get Weird found it’s Nz roots at the Wine Cellar in Auckland and while we’ve been on break since 2024. It’s time for the improv and theatre show that Vice Australia called “Somehow one of the most compelling pieces of theatre I've seen.” to return, this time at Whammy Bar. The joyous and constantly changing experiment that dives into one of theatre’s weirdest niche art forms that we all love… improvisation!

We are freshly back and would love support so I’ve made a promo code which gets you $12 tix, just use ‘GETWEIRD’ at Humanitix (plus no booking fee!).

*THIS MIGHT GET WEIRD*
Improv Theatre Double Bill
Tues Apr 14, Doors 7:30pm

Tickets from Humanitix.com

11/04/2026

*THIS MIGHT GET WEIRD*
Tues 14 Apr, Doors 7:30pm (PLUS every second Tuesday)
At

At 7:30pm four improvisers riff up a storm of comedy scenes for your entertainment and joy. When the dust settles one improviser is bestowed the honour and responsibility of directing the entire 8:30pm show!

Joined by a cast of today’s and tomorrow’s most delightful improvisers, the director captains the ship of improv comedy into uncharted waters of joy and intrigue. The results will be high stakes hilarity and a constantly changing experiment of one of theatre’s weirdest niche art forms… improvisation!

“Somehow one of the most compelling pieces of theatre I've seen.” - Vice Australia

HOST Steven Lyons
DIRECTORS , Gareth Blackler, ,
ENSEMBLE , &

Witness this double bill of chaos in all its glory!
Tickets from Humanitix.co.nz

Tuesday sees brews and boldness at The Whammy Bar with a fully improvised comedy show where only the universe knows what...
09/04/2026

Tuesday sees brews and boldness at The Whammy Bar with a fully improvised comedy show where only the universe knows what comes next. At 7:30pm four improvisers riff up a storm of comedy scenes for your entertainment and joy. When the dust settles one improviser is bestowed the honour and responsibility of directing the entire 8:30pm show! 

Joined by a cast of today’s and tomorrow’s most delightful improvisers, the director captains the ship of improv comedy into uncharted waters of joy and intrigue. The results will be high stakes hilarity and a constantly changing experiment of one of theatre’s weirdest niche art forms… improvisation! 

“Somehow one of the most compelling pieces of theatre I've seen.” - Vice Australia

*THIS MIGHT GET WEIRD*
Improv Comedy Double Bill
Tues Apr 14, Doors 7:30pm (PLUS every second Tuesday)
Tickets from Humanitix.co.nz

HOST Steven Lyons 
DIRECTORS Elle Bell, Gareth Blackler, Bridie Thomson, Greg Ward
ENSEMBLE Lisa Garrity, Rebecca Mary Gwendolon & Izzy Renton

Witness this double bill of chaos in all its glory!

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