Alright Hey will bring his Bring Back Glamour encore tour to The Comedy Store in Moore Park on August 28, with sharp stand up and unapologetic theatricality.
By the time Friday evening settles over Sydney, the working week will be loosening its grip. Around Moore Park, people will be heading towards restaurants, the Entertainment Quarter and the city's sporting and cultural venues, while inside The Comedy Store another kind of evening will be preparing to begin.
At 7pm on Friday August 28, Alright Hey will step onto the stage with Bring Back Glamour, the encore edition of a tour that will have already travelled through several Australian cities by the time it reaches Sydney.
The setting will be familiar to anyone who has spent an evening at The Comedy Store. At the Entertainment Quarter on Lang Road, the venue has become one of Sydney's established homes for stand up comedy, a place where audiences arrive expecting a night built around the immediacy of a performer speaking directly to a room.
This particular evening will be somewhat more elaborate.
Alright Hey will arrive as a comedian, content creator, podcaster and self-described Australia's Biggest Glamazon, bringing a show that will deliberately blur the boundary between conventional stand up and theatrical spectacle.
The premise will be simple enough. The world has become a little too ugly, so somebody fabulous will have to do something about it.
What follows will be less a lecture on glamour than a comedy show built around stories, personality, performance and the particular ability of a comedian to turn the absurdities of ordinary life into something worth laughing about.
Alright Hey And The Return Of Glamour
The Bring Back Glamour tour will have begun as a 24-date national tour across six states and territories.
Demand will then change its shape.
Twenty of the original shows will have sold out, prompting the addition of thirteen encore dates and expanding the tour's reach to another state. By the time the Sydney performance arrives, several of those additional shows will also have sold out or be approaching capacity.
The Sydney date will be one of those encore performances.
That distinction matters because an encore show carries a different kind of history. The performance will not be arriving as an untested idea. It will already have travelled through rooms around Australia, shaped by audiences and refined through repetition, while retaining the unpredictability that comes with live comedy.
The Sydney audience will therefore be joining the tour somewhere in the middle of its journey.
The show will feature stories that have not previously been told on stage, drawing from Alright Hey's career, personal life and relationships. Those stories will sit alongside a broader comic persona that has developed well beyond the traditional stand up circuit.
Online, Alright Hey has built an audience of more than 800,000 followers. He also co-hosts the High Scrollers podcast with Brittany Saunders, extending his presence into a conversational format where personality and observation become as important as prepared material.
The live show will bring those different aspects together.
From Screen To Stage
There is a particular challenge in moving from online comedy to a theatre audience.
Digital platforms allow a performer to speak directly to individual viewers, often through short pieces of content designed to be consumed in moments. A live audience is different. It occupies the same room, responds collectively and creates an atmosphere that cannot be edited afterwards.
Alright Hey's career will have developed within both worlds.
The Bring Back Glamour show will therefore offer a chance to see what happens when a personality accustomed to the immediacy of social media is given a stage and a longer stretch of time in which to tell a story.
The format will allow for more than isolated jokes.
Stories from relationships and personal experiences can take unexpected turns. A passing observation can become the beginning of a longer anecdote. The audience can react to a moment, and the performer can allow that reaction to shape what happens next.
That is one of the enduring pleasures of stand up.
Even when a tour has a carefully prepared structure, there will always be an element of uncertainty once a performer walks into a room full of people.
For Alright Hey, that uncertainty will sit alongside a deliberately constructed visual and theatrical identity.
The diamond-studded suitcase and the language of glamour will provide the framing, while the comedy will supply the substance.
Alright Hey And The Idea Of Glamour
Glamour is an interesting subject for comedy because it can mean almost anything.
It can suggest old Hollywood, extravagant fashion, performance and confidence. It can also be a form of escapism, particularly when the world outside the theatre feels complicated.
Bring Back Glamour will take that idea and push it towards the theatrical.
The show's premise will imagine Alright Hey travelling from city to city with the improbable task of cleaning up the mess of recent years. The language will be deliberately excessive, matching a performer whose public persona has always embraced a degree of flamboyance.
Yet beneath the sparkle, the show's central idea will be recognisable.
Comedy often provides a way of looking at difficult or ridiculous circumstances from a different angle. Rather than pretending that everything is fine, a comedian can acknowledge the mess and then find something absurd within it.
The glamour becomes part of the response.
It is not presented as an answer to every problem, but as a refusal to let seriousness have the final word.
In that sense, the show will belong to a long tradition of performers using exaggeration, costume and theatricality to create a temporary alternative to everyday life.
The Sydney Stop At The Comedy Store
The Comedy Store will provide an appropriate setting for this particular kind of performance.
Located at The Entertainment Quarter, 122 Lang Road, Moore Park, the venue will sit within a precinct already accustomed to evening crowds and live entertainment. The surrounding area will provide plenty of options for an audience wanting to turn the performance into a broader Friday night.
Inside, the emphasis will be on the performer and the room.
The Comedy Store's regular programming brings local and international comedians onto its stage, with Friday nights generally built around stand up performances. The venue will open its doors ahead of performances, allowing audiences to settle in before the show begins.
The Alright Hey performance will begin at 7pm, giving audiences the chance to make an evening of it without pushing the night too late.
The City of Sydney's official event listing currently gives the performance time as 6.30pm to 8pm, while the Sydney Comedy Festival listing and The Comedy Store's own program identify the show as beginning at 7pm. Audiences should therefore check their ticket confirmation before attending.
General admission seated tickets are listed at $39.90 through the Sydney Comedy Festival.
A Show Built Around Stories
The most interesting element of Bring Back Glamour may ultimately be the promise of stories that have not previously been told.
Stand up comedy can be divided loosely between performances built around observations and performances built around narrative. Stories allow a comedian to reveal more of the person behind the jokes, moving through relationships, mistakes, ambitions and moments of embarrassment.
That will be particularly relevant to a performer whose public profile has grown through multiple forms of media.
The audience will already know something of Alright Hey's online persona. The stage will provide an opportunity to explore what lies behind it.
The stories will be framed by comedy, but they will also give the show a sense of movement. Rather than simply moving from one joke to another, the performance will create a broader portrait of the person behind the glamour.
There will be chaos, but it will be organised chaos.
There will be confidence, but also the possibility of vulnerability that comes with discussing personal experiences in front of a room of strangers.
And there will be a generous amount of theatricality.
From Dancing Queen To Bring Back Glamour
The new tour will follow Alright Hey's 2024 Dancing Queen tour, which sold out fifteen shows around Australia.
That earlier success will provide useful context for the current production.
Dancing Queen established a live audience for a performer who had already developed a substantial online following. Bring Back Glamour will take that foundation and expand the scale of the performance, presenting a show that is intended to feel bigger, more visually considered and more deliberately theatrical.
The progression reflects a broader change in Australian comedy.
The traditional distinction between comedian, influencer, entertainer and content creator has become increasingly difficult to maintain. Audiences encounter performers across social platforms, podcasts, television, live shows and touring productions.
A successful live performance can then become another part of a much larger relationship between performer and audience.
For Alright Hey, the Sydney show will be another point in that journey.
A Night For The Audience As Much As The Performer
There is something communal about comedy that cannot be replicated through a phone screen.
A joke delivered online might make one person laugh at home. In a theatre, hundreds of people will laugh together, and the sound will become part of the experience itself.
That shared response will be especially important for a show built around glamour and theatricality.
The audience will not simply observe the performance. They will contribute to its atmosphere.
There will be people arriving because they have followed Alright Hey online, others because they know the High Scrollers podcast, and some who will simply be looking for a Friday night of comedy.
All of them will enter the same room.
For approximately an hour, the distinction between those different audiences will disappear.
The performer will have one stage. The audience will have one collective response.
That is where live comedy retains something that digital entertainment cannot quite reproduce.
The Final Encore
The Sydney performance will form part of a larger run of encore dates that will continue after Brisbane, travelling through Hobart, Bendigo, Melbourne, Geelong, Perth and Adelaide before returning to New South Wales.
Following Sydney on August 28, the tour will continue to Newcastle on September 17, Coffs Harbour on September 18, Tamworth on September 19 and Wyong on September 25.
Some dates will be sold out, while others will have limited availability.
The tour will therefore have the character of a final passage rather than an open-ended run. The additional performances will give audiences who missed the original dates one last opportunity to see the show as it travels through Australia.
For Sydney, that opportunity will arrive at The Comedy Store.
Event Details
Alright Hey: Bring Back Glamour Encore will take place on Friday August 28, 2026.
Time: 7pm
Location: The Comedy Store, The Entertainment Quarter, 122 Lang Road, Moore Park NSW 2021
Tickets: General admission seated tickets are listed from $39.90.
The official Sydney Comedy Festival listing is available at Alright Hey: Bring Back Glamour Encore.
The Comedy Store's official venue information is available at The Comedy Store Sydney.
When The Lights Go Down
Eventually, the diamonds will be packed away.
The lights at The Comedy Store will come back up, the audience will begin moving towards the exits and the Entertainment Quarter will resume its ordinary Friday night rhythm.
There will be restaurants open nearby, traffic moving through Moore Park and the city continuing its usual business beyond the theatre.
For a little while, however, Alright Hey will have offered something deliberately different.
The world will not actually have been fixed. The problems outside will still be waiting. Glamour will not have solved anything in the conventional sense.
But comedy has never needed to solve the world to be useful.
Sometimes it is enough to look at the disorder, put on something fabulous and laugh at the absurdity of being here.
That will be the spirit Alright Hey brings to Sydney.
For one Friday evening in Moore Park, the mission will be simple: bring back glamour, tell a few stories, make a room full of strangers laugh and leave the audience feeling that, perhaps, things can be a little lighter than they were when they arrived.