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THE TOP 25 AUSTRALIAN COMEDIANS IN 2025

The top 25 Australian comedians and comics in 2025 list. The most popular and most followed Aussie male comics and famous female comedians in 2025 as seen on Youtube, Netflix, TikTok and Instagram and most sold stand-up comedy shows across Australia.

THE MOST POPULAR 25 AUSTRALIAN COMEDIANS IN 2025

Taking into consideration the number of searchers in Google Australia, comedians’ social media fan count and the most sold stand-up comedy shows across Australia, below are the top 25 most popular comedians in Australia.

WHO IS THE BEST AUSTRALIAN COMEDIAN?

For some, Carl Barron is considered the best Australian comedian. For others is Adam Hills. The choice is very personal. Check out our below ranking list and decide who the best Australian comedian is.

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25. Chris Franklin

In 2000, Australian comedian Chris Franklin had the biggest hit in Australia with ‘Bloke’, a song parody of Meredith Brooks’ classic feminist siren call ‘Bitch’, which took you into the life of the song’s bloke.

Bloke was a forgettable parody song about Aussie bogan cliches that accidentally broke through. It was also a strong candidate if Australians ever decide to replace their national anthem.

The song hit the ARIA chart number one, selling more than 120,000 copies. The song ended up being the third biggest single released by an Australian that year and put a platinum record on Franklin’s wall.

“The idea was actually that of another comedian, Pommy Johnson,” Franklin confirmed. “He and I wrote songs and he said: “I’ve got this idea for a song. I either want to do ‘Bitch’ and do it about Pauline Hanson, or do the male response to the ‘Bitch’ song and call it ‘Bloke’.”

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24. John Doyle

John Patrick Doyle is an Australian actor, writer, radio presenter and comedian best known for his 1985 character “Rampaging” Roy Slaven appeared on Triple J’s breakfast show every Friday.

Doyle became a Member of the Order of Australia in 2010 for service to the media as a presenter and entertainer and as a supporter of a range of charitable organisations, particularly the United Nations Children’s Fund in Australia.

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23. Kevin Bloody Wilson

Kevin Bloody Wilson (real name: Dennis Bryant) is an Australian musical comedian who performs comical songs with his heavy Australian accent and often includes dirty adult themes. Kevin won one ARIA Music Award.

Kevin Bloody Wilson’s story is now one of legend.

Always a larrikin, he originally wrote and recorded songs on a homemade cassette tape for his mates, simply songs penned about his experiences living in the Outback and working nights as a part time musician and an electrician by day in the gold mines in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

Sales of this initial cassette skyrocketed to the tens of thousands before it was transferred to vinyl, where it proceeded to sell tens of thousands more.

It was just the start of a career that Kev admits he never saw coming, and he has never looked back.

Fast forward almost four decades and Kevin is a household name throughout Australia and England.

It is almost 40 years ago that he was getting arrested for performing his politically incorrect songs in public.

Times have changed though, and Kev even now proudly sports a nomination for Australian Of The Year as one of the country’s most prolific comedian, songwriter and performers.

While his songs and concert performances continue to rattle the cages of the PC Brigade, Kevin Bloody Wilson has earned his place in the entertainment industry with almost zero mainstream media support.

Wilson record sales are now nudging the four million mark.

All of his CDs and DVDs have achieved gold status globally, with many reaching platinum status. In fact, one album, Kev’s Back, reached quadruple platinum status.

Kev’s recordings can be found all over the world and his music has also been preserved for generations to come in the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra.

Wilson fan base stretches from Broken Hill to Buckingham Palace and his sold-out live concerts and music sales are the envy of most Rock Artist, all while maintaining a Global touring schedule that consistently earn legions of new fans who not only love his music but love the Kevin Bloody Wilson “Dilligaf” (Do I look like a give a fak) attitude… so much so that Kevin’s song: Dilligaf has been used in 10+ thousand videos on TikTok.

Tip: Aussie marketers who want to create funny or humourus brand associations will find this list useful. A good practice when putting together the best social media brief when hiring a new marketing agency; will be to ask the new agency to present the top comedians or comics who may be relevant to be associated with your brand.

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22. Eddie Perfect

Eddie Perfect is an Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, comedian, writer and actor.

Eddie is known for his role as Mick Holland in Channel Ten’s TV series Offspring in which he performs his own music.

Perfect has recorded solo albums and written and performed numerous cabaret shows, including Songs from the Middle with the Brodsky Quartet.

His biographical musical comedy Shane Warne: The Musical won the 2009 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and a Green Room Award. Following his songwriting career on Broadway, where he composed Beetlejuice and King Kong.

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21. Sammy J

Samuel McMillan (Sammy J) is an Australian musical comedian, satirist, writer and radio presenter.

Sammy embraces a variety of media in his comedy, including the use of video and self-composed music and frequently collaborates with Australian puppet comedian Randy Feltface. Sammy has released different CDs and DVDs of his comedy; for example, the album Symphony in J Minor which was nominated for Best Comedy Release at the 2019 ARIA Awards.

Sammy has performed at comedy festivals in Australia, Edinburgh and Montreal, and has performed on various Australian television comedy shows, including sitcom “Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane”. Sammy produces a weekly political sketch for ABC Television, satirising the news through various characters and is one of ABC Radio Melbourne Breakfast presenters.

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THE TOP TRENDING AUSTRALIAN COMEDIAN RIGHT NOW

MICHAEL SHAFAR

More than 1 million views of his funny video explaining the medical exemptions for the Novak Djokovic saga (Jan 2022).

OTHER POPULAR COMEDIANS AND COMICS IN AUSTRALIA

Andrew Denton
Anne Edmonds
Barry Humphries – the Australian comedian behind the iconic Dame Edna Everage character.
Celia Pacquola
Danny Bhoy
Dave Hughes
Denise Scott
Ed Kavalee
Frank Woodley
Gerry Connolly
Gina Riley
Josh Thomas
Judith Lucy
Kitty Flanagan
Lano and Woodley
Lawrence Mooney
Mick Molloy
Paul McDermott
Shane Jacobson
Shaun Micallef
Sooshi Mango
Steve Hughes
Tim Ferguson
Tim Ross
Tom Ballard
Tom Gleeson
Will Anderson. William Anderson is an Australian stand-up comedian, writer, presenter, and podcaster. You can see him on his Wilosophy show or on “Gruen”.

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AUSSIE COMEDIANS TO WATCH THIS YEAR

Adam Spencer
Andrew Hansen
Charlie Pickering
Claire Hopper
Colin Lane
Craig Reucassel
Denise Drysdale
Glenn Robbins
Gretel Killeen
Jason Gann
Jean Kittson
Joel creasy
John Safran
Karl chandler
Magda Szubanski
Merrick Watts
Nazeem Hussain
Paul Livingston
Rob Sitch
Rove McManus
Sam Simmonds
Scott Brennan
Shaun Micallef
Steady eddy
Steve Abbott

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TOP AUSTRALIAN COMICS AND COMEDIANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Matt Okine
Peter Helliar
Meshel Laurie
Akmal Saleh
Greg Fleet
Peter Berner
Mary Coustas
David O’Neil
Zoe Coombs
Tom Gleisner
Claudia O’Doherty
Anthony Ackroyd
Brian Nankervis
Steve Vizard
Catherine Deveni
Shane Bourne
Scott Dooley
Chas Licciardello
Ross Daniels
Corinne Grant
Wendy Harmer
Richard Stubbs
Peter Rowsthorn
Nick Giannopoulos
Zlad

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RECOMMENDED AUSSIE COMICS AND COMEDIANS

Vince Sorrenti
Jonathan Biggins
Mark Trevorrow
Julian Morrow
Kym Gyngell
Lawrence Leung
Bryan Dawe
Lulu McClatchy
Marty Fields
Marg Downey
Mark Trenwith
Mikey Robins
Trevor Marmalade
Tracy Bartram
Justin Marcus Heazlewood
Xavier Susai
Tahir Bilgiç
Monty Franklin
Tim Matthews. TikTok: @timmatthewsss
Natalie Tran (Related: Natalie Tran reveals one of the worst misleading ads in Australia)

Instances when Australian comedians made fun of brands:

• Bupa. Watch from the 12 seconds of this video.

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Conclusion

Some of these top 25 most popular Australian comedians have a remarkable talent for using humour to bring to light complex social issues and taboos in today’s Australian society.

These Popular Aussie comics and comedians have earned the right to inform and influence their Australian audiences and fans to think about and take action towards a particular cause or issue.

By combining facts and humour, the impact of the message is amplified and increases its chances of being seen and grasped by the public. Onstage, some of these remarkable Aussie comedians turn their oppressors, agitations and abusers into the butt of the joke.

Not only can they do that but in doing so you disempower that negativity.

The fact that these Aussie comedians can share these emotions while keeping the audience in endless belly-clenching laughter is the sign of a master comedian.

Marketers who want to connect with humour and comedy themes have found partnering with comedians is a great way to bring refreshing and enjoyable storytelling to their customers.

This can be done by finding fun ways to express how your brand can solve someone’s issues or challenges or by simply not taking your brand benefits too seriously and allowing some silliness in your storytelling.

Comedy surely is not for all brands, but few have found comedy a fantastic way to engage their audiences.

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