Future Science Talks: Comedy Edition
Australia's favourite science comedy show returns to the Adelaide Fringe after selling out all shows last year!
In 2025, a new group of local scientists from Adelaide have partnered with comedians to infuse humour into their scientific talks.
See scientists doing stand-up comedy.
Laugh and learn at the same time!
At each show, you’ll be hearing a series of short talks from Adelaide’s best, brightest and and emerging science professionals.
Topics include: black holes, microbiology, psychology, genetic engineering, and much more.
Scientists are from Adelaide University, Flinders, UniSA, and various other organisations.
For information about the full list of speakers and the topics of each show, please visit www.futuresciencetalks.com.au/adelaide-fringe-2025
Presented by: Future Science Talks
Future Science Talks runs Australia’s only Science Comedy Program and is currently producing the ‘Science Comedy Handbook ‘for the CSIRO.
We partner with scientists and organisations across Australia, helping science professionals infuse humour into their talks.
In 2024, we trained over 200 people in metropolitan and regional cities, and had local scientists feature in 15 festivals across Australia.
This included: Adelaide Fringe, Sydney Comedy Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival, Darwin Fringe, and WA Comedy Week.
Our Comedy Edition show features scientists giving 10-minute talks that are packed with humour.
Our gameshow format includes comedians, celebrities and even school groups. They need to guess whether scientists are lying or not.
Reviews & Fringe Feed Reacts
It’s a great concept that marries two separate forms of communication, both of which are necessary to win over the human brain and heart. - Mandar Bornare, The List
Perhaps more kids, especially girls, will pursue STEM careers if more science was presented like this - Jan Kershaw, Glam Adelaide