Steve Hoskins is a local comedian and actor from Forster Tuncurry, familiar from television shows like “Come Dine With Me”, and he’s also an actor, appearing in shows like “Underbelly” and “Home and Away”. He had everyone crying with laughter at last year’s innaugural Lakeside Laughs and will be making his appearance this year also!

Since winning the prestigious national comedy competition, Green Faces, in 2003, Sydney comedian Brett Nichols has been knocking audiences dead for over two decades at comedy shows all over Australia and overseas – including entertaining Australian and New Zealand troops in East Timor and the Solomon Islands.

Brett’s television appearances include The Footy Show (NRL) and The Comedy Channel’s Stand-Up Australia.

An actor and filmmaker as well, Brett, with his twin brother, Mark, wrote, directed and starred in the short film Identical, which was selected as a finalist at Tropfest in 2016.

Des Dowling

For more than twenty years Des Dowling has been one of Australia’s most in demand comedians.

His world class comedy routines and seamless audience interaction has endeared him to audiences around Australia and overseas.

He has also written and appeared in many TV shows including Channel 10’s, Kinne and ABC TV’s cult comedy Agony Uncles.

His live show have included sold out shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Ellen Briggs

Information coming soon.

Troy Kinne

Troy Kinne is best known for his own TV shows Kinne Tonight (Ch10) and Kinne (Ch7) for which he was nominated for a Logie award. You may have also seen him a number of times on Have You Been Paying Attention? Andy Lee’s The 100 or performing on Just For Laughs.

However it is more likely that you have seen him in one of his many viral videos on Facebook and YouTube. ‘Kinne videos’ have been shared all over the world resulting in over 1 million followers on social media.

Yet before social media was even a ‘thing’, Kinne was already making his mark on the live stand up comedy scene winning several young comic competitions.

Comedy Knockout – Search For A Funny Bone – Winner
Comic’s Lounge – You Gotta Be Jokin’ – Winner
A-List Entertainment – Green Faces – Winner
His live shows now sell out all over Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
“A rapid-fire night of laughs” – The Herald Sun
“Comic Genius” – The Daily Telegraph