Late Night Laughs - Art After Hours

Overview

If you can find a better date than free comedy in an art gallery, we'd love to hear about it. The Art Gallery of New South Wales is about to become a sort of pop-up comedy club, featuring some of Australia's best comedians every Wednesday of September — for free. In conjunction with the Archibald Prize exhibition and as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival program, Late Night Laughs is the Gallery's September comedy series. Stand-ups and caricaturists aplenty will hit the gallery for Art After Hours, putting their spin on the people we love and love to paint.

First up on September 2, Paul McDermott and Paul Livingston (of Good News Week and legendary Doug Anthony Allstars fame) team up as Cocky and Pompous. Joined by acclaimed maestro Stu ‘Errol’ Hunter on keys, Cocky and Pompus invite you to an intimate concert of comedic tomfoolery in honour of only themselves. Then on September 9, sardonic comedian, art documentary maker and Please Like Me favourite Hannah Gadsby brings her quick-witted comedy to the Gallery fresh from her shows at Darwin Festival.

New Zealand export we'll always claim as our own, Cal Wilson will join the Gallery on September 16, a perennial Spicks and Specks, Good News Week and Thank God You're Here favourite. And finally, on September 23, multi-award-winning comedian Ronny Chieng will finish up the month with his celebrated absurdist comedy — a rare, free show we're certain will be pretty damn packed.

Each comedy show will be happening at the Gallery from 6.30pm every Wednesday from September 2 and is 100 percent, completely, ridiculously free.

LATE NIGHT LAUGHS - ART AFTER HOURS:

September 2 — Cocky & Pompous
September 9 — Hannah Gadsby
September 16 — Cal Wilson
September 23 — Ronny Chieng

While you're there, why not check out the Archibald Prize?