Get the most laughs to the most punters. Simple.
If you break that down into maths, it’s:
Number of Jokes (J) x Number of Tickets (T) x Number of Gigs (G).
L = J x T x G.
We can’t help with the jokes, but we can help you run gigs and sell tickets.
Our founder and Funny Little Man*, Craig Harvey has written and performed comedy, run open mic nights, sold tickets, run social media, scanned tickets at the door, MC’d, moved chairs (so many bloody chairs), performed in line-up shows in Festivals and then put away the chairs at the end of the night.
With a day-job in software development he loves to try and improve things, simplify and automate where possible. Not technology for technology’s sake. Over the years he built a number of solutions to help run comedy festivals and other gigs. Eventually this snowballed into Funny Little Shows - a website, ticketing and marketing platform aimed at the comedy industry.
We’ve lived the pain of copy / pasting from spreadsheets into WordPress, copying “buy” links from different ticketing systems, comms with venues and box office for comp tickets, and trying to report on it all.
We love live comedy, it’s one of the best artforms. We want to get more punters to live gigs. Margins are razor thin, attention spans are short and now AI is ripping off comedians faster than shitty comedians ripping off good comedians ever did.
If Funny Little Shows is missing something you think would make a difference, let us know. We want to work with the industry to streamline things, making show-running as smooth as possible. Our development is already driven by close input from our customers and industry needs, we’re always keen to hear how we can help you.
OK, we’ve clearly aimed ourselves at the comedy industry because we felt there was a gap. Funny Little Shows is also suitable for festivals of any kind, so if you’re looking for an Australian made and hosted solution to help run your events and festivals there’s a fair chance Funny Little Shows is your answer.
Short, round, and funny, one day our founder Craig Harvey was at the shops and copped the best heckle of his life. A toddler, about 3 years old pointed and said to his mother “Look at that funny little man”. A brand was born. If you can’t laugh at yourself, what are you doing?
Funny Little Shows is a product of Funny Little Enterprises, based in Canberra, ACT.