Join us at Shark bar in the New Brighton Hotel for the opening launch of Manly Comedy Club. This night of good times and big laughs in the heart of Manly's corso promises to be the hottest comedy ticket in town on the Northern Beaches. 

October Line Up 

Neel Kolhatkar

Neel Kolhatkar is a comedian and film-maker from Australia. He is well known for his cultural, political, and observational comedy. Over the past twelve years he has performed sold out tours across Australia and released multiple self-produced comedy specials. Neel is also a prolific film-maker having written, directed, and starred in the worldwide viral hit ‘Modern Educayshun’, among many other short films. Neel also produced and created the online web series ‘Crossing the Line’ in 2019. He helped start ‘Comedy Untamed’ in 2022, managing regular comedy shows across Australia.  

Daniel Townes

Daniel is a regular at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival. He has performed at the prestigious invite-only Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, and won fans worldwide, headlining comedy clubs throughout the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Ireland, South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, the UAE, Qatar, and all over Australia.

“AFFABLE, LAID-BACK CHARM. DAZZLINGLY FUNNY.”

– HERALD SUN –

“TOP-MARK LAUGHS, CLEVER CALL-BACKS AND ACERBIC SOCIAL COMMENTARY.”

– HERALD SUN –

Stella Wu

Stella Wu, a Hong Kong born comic with scything wit and charming persona will share with you her conflicting experiences between living in Honk Kong and Australia. Hilarity ensues as she shares her cultural misunderstandings and whimsical observations to bring a fresh perspective to an immigrant’s life in this country.

Lauren Bonner

Lauren Bonner is a comedian, writer and actor based in Sydney Australia. She has toured her hours Heartbreaker and Elephant across Australia’s major comedy festivals and is a regular on the local comedy club circuit. On screen, she recently wrapped a recurring guest star role on Freeform/Disney series While You Were Breeding (in post-production).

Marty Bright

Over the past decade Marty Bright has taken his unique brand of physical, observation stand up performed around major cities across Australia, USA, Canada and New Zealand at the top clubs including the Sydney and LA’s Comedy Store, Caroline’s and Broadway Comedy Club in NYC and The Comedy Nest in Montreal.

Having been hand chosen for the prestigious FRESH, BREAKOUT and ROADSHOW productions at Sydney Comedy Festival, Bright has established himself as an affable and charismatic performer that is in demand around Australia. 

He has opened for Akmal, ARIA nominee Luke Heggie, Steve Hoffstetter and Daniel Muggleton as well as sharing stages with Matt Okine, Ronnie Chieng, Dave Hughes, Rhys Nicholson, and Fiona Oloughlin to name a few. 

Doors at 7:30pm with the show commencing at 8pm. Food available in the lower levels of the venue.