NEW Catch A Rising Comic & Fast $100 Comedy Competitions & BonkerZ Comedy Circuit.
Note: This room is run and owned by an African American, if this is an issue for you, we suggest you stop reading here and not sign up. As hard as it is to believe, in the past, this is a major issue with some comics and Club owners and has caused tons of problems, we don’t really have the time or patience for it. For those whom this is not an issue, please read on and we welcome u.
New dress codes. We’ve been told to inform all comics, T-shirts with offensive language or images, sandals, flip flops, torn jeans etc, will not be permitted. You will not be allowed in, therefore you will lose your spot and listed as a no show. Please arrive with a minimum dressed to impress your audience and fans.
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Welcome to the Catch A Rising Comic, Joke Off and Fast $100 Competitions, BonkerZ Comedy Clubs and BonkerZ Comedy Circuit. For all of our venues, we’re only looking for serious and reliable stand up comics. If you have a previous history of lots of cancellations, no-shows or arriving late, please don’t sign up, we’re not the comedy clubs for you. Even though we offer a variety of spots for comics from pros to up and comers, our audiences expect us to deliver a professional show every time and on time. On occasion we advertise, promote and market, the photos and names of each comic that will be performing on that week, Comics who cancel after confirming an appearance, makes the club and themselves, look bad, when they don’t perform. Nuff said.
Here’s the lineup for All shows.
BonkerZ Comedy Clubs Catch a Rising Comic Shows ALL feature: 1 MC plus 3 Featured Artist – 12 min sets (Headliners/Semi Pros or Pros) and 2 Rising Comic (Open Mikers)-up to 6 min sets.
Fast $100 Comedy Competition features: 1 MC plus 6 Contestants performing 1 (3) min set for 1st Round and 1 (2) min set if they make the 2nd round.
Comic Rules
Please note: Our club rules are designed to make you better organized and at the same time, make you look and sound professional on stage. To those who already consider themselves professional, these rules are the norm or nothing out of the ordinary. To the newbies just starting in the business, they are specifically design to make you an asset to any comedy venue, pro or non-pro.
Fast $100 Competition Rules and Terms. Fast $100 Competitions are open only to open mikers with little or no experience only. Voting is done exclusively by the audience only.
Featured Artist must have a minimum of 15 mins of solid material and minimum of 2 years continues stage experience. Being a regular performer at the Scruffy Murphy’s also helps but is not necessary.
Open Mikers (Rising Comics) will be given up to 6 mins of stage time.
We no longer put up the photos of comics on our home page due to the new cancel culture. Adding, removing, adding , removing cancelling comics photos daily, is to time consuming and we find total un-necessary. We’ve also found 90-95% of comics don’t promote themselves or the rooms they perform in anyway, so for us to go through the trouble of adding or removing cancelling comics images daily or weekly ,we’ve decide to stop adding images. We now do what 80% of the industry is doing already and that’s promote the MC or main headliner
Here is the rate of progression: Open Mikers (Rising Comics) start in our Thursday Night Catch A Rising Comic Show (6 min sets). Once your skills are fined tuned with a solid 10-15 mins set, we move you to a Featured Artist (12 Min sets) and from there, hopefully join the BonkerZ Comedy Circuit- (20 Min sets) All BonkerZ Comedy Circuit Spots are paid gigs
Payment– MC Slots are 2 days (Thur/Fri) or (Thur only) or (Friday only) and are paid spots. Final amount varies due to covid room restrictions. We have a small theatre so we encourage MC’s to work with BonkerZ to spread the word when they are performing. The more people there, the more money they are paid. Those who do no promoting will probably make the minimum.
Last Minute Cancellations or no shows, once performance dates are confirmed, will cause you to lose any other confirmed dates you may have for the next 3 months and removes you from the paid Comedy Circuit spots, plus make it harder in the future to secure spots. We look for reliable comics to put in the comedy circuit and our special event shows across the country, they are paid gigs. If you have a history of cancellations, you won’t be placed in special events and in the paid BonkerZ Comedy Circuit. We take cancellations and no shows very serious and so do audience members who may show up to see you perform. Also, if you are given a spot and it’s your first BonkerZ spot, if you cancel that spot, you won’t be allowed back. The difference between our club and others is, we tell you up front what our cancellation rules are, the others that don’t tell u, they just don’t reply to your emails and don’t bother having you back.
To All performers: If you want to give the best performance you can, We recommend not drinking before or during your performance.
MC’s and Alcohol: We recommend if you want to be an MC, not to drink alcohol before or during your performance. We’re finding MC’s performance levels are tainted in regards to making announcements, time allocation and promos because of this. Remember it’s a paid gig, screwing up future show promotions, which are needed to keep bums on the seat and cutting other comics times because you’ve lost track of time, is unacceptable and not professional. If you do choose to drink and it affects your performance, you will not be allowed to MC again.
MC’s have the responsibility to Know the up and coming events and promos, know the house rules, check in and brief all comics for the night of house rules. Please arrive no later then 6:50pm on Thursday Nights to brief the comics. If you can’t arrive at this time, please don’t request to be an MC. MC’s also have the right and responsibility to remove or cut short, comics time on stage if they see u struggling or having a major issue.
1 free guest allowed per performer (excludes special events) Please notify at-least 3 days before show of your guest name. We recommend sending your guests name when u are confirming your show appearance 1 week before.
BonkerZ Comedy Club reserves the right to allow or decline a registration for any reason. This decision is final.
Although all styles and forms of comedy are welcomed, and we do realize most comics use profanity we do ask that you keep profanity and vulgar language at the barest minimum. ANY material deemed racist, sexist, homophobic or anything that seriously offends your audience, could result in loss of future spots and/ or paid gigs. We understand most rooms allow you to pretty much say whatever you want, but we try to attract people old and young to our shows. We find, the older crowds aren’t really into a lot of profanity and crude humor and believe me, they let us know.
We ask that all material be original. Any material found to be stolen or taken from another source will RESULT in your IMMEDIATE dismissal. Also No joke notes on your hand, legs, elbows or paper. This looks very unprofessional on stage. If u don’t have it memorized, don’t use it! if you are booked on as a Featured Artist (15 – 20 min spots) and are seen using notes, u will be moved to open mike status ( 6 mins on stage where u will have to book on line for each new spot). BonkerZ Featured Artist Club is not an open mic room.
Please don’t lean, hold or pull on the mic stand or twist the plastic microphone holder during your performance. If you need the stand for your performance, thats fine, if not, please move it out of your way
You will be given a light when your time is up, going over that time could cancel all future dates and spots. So when U see the Light, exit stage right!
At BonkerZ Comedy Club Australia, we’re not concerned with having all open mikers, semi-pros or pros, perform in our clubs, only the best or those striving to be the best.
All performers will receive an SMS via mobile or EMAIL 1 week before show. Please reply to this sms ASAP. Failure to reply within 24 hours could result in your spot being given to another comic. We always confirm your confirmation email once you reply. If you don’t receive a confirmation email, it means we haven’t received your reply and you’ll need to send it again. This is our way of confirming your attendance. If you don’t receive an SMS by Tuesday the week of your performance, you’ll need to call our office (02) 95472578 to confirm your spot. We have several comics on stand by waiting for stage time, if we don’t hear from you, we need to fill that spot
Equipment supplied on the night will be a stage, Circle Spot light, up to two microphones and stands, 1 input cable for an instrument and CD facilities. Please discuss your requirements with our MD (Music Director) prior to your appearance on stage. No request for additional equipment or changes will be accepted on the night of your performance.
Just starting or new to the business? We always recommend taking a Stand up comedy course first, but if that’s not possible, we suggest a $20 investment in our ” So you wanna be a stand up comic?” Book and our latest release ” How not to lose money at a Comedy and Fringe Festival” After reading, If you find stand up comedy is not for you, that $20 investment could have just save you hundreds of dollars in costs and time. 
Las Vegas Entertainment is the producer of The BonkerZ Comedy Circuit which features- The $10 Dollar Comedy Clubs, Joke Off and Fast $100 Comedy Competitions, BonkerZ Featured Artist Comedy Clubs, Catch a Rising Comic and House of Magic.
We (Las Vegas Entertainment ) reserve the right to alter or change these rules, registration terms and conditions without notice.