Lano & Woodley

WINNER Melbourne Comedy Festival People’s Choice Award, 2018

Amazon Special - FLY

Lano (Colin Lane) & Woodley (Frank Woodley) came together in 1986 as two parts of a three hander called The Found Objects. When three became two in 1994, they became Lano & Woodley for a show at Melbourne’s tiny Carlton Courthouse.

That show went on to win the prestigious Perrier Award for best comedy in Edinburgh, making Lano & Woodley only the second Australian artists to take out the award. They returned home to full houses and a TV show co-produced with the ABC and BBC. Then in 2006, more than 150,000 people came to their Good Bye tour to say farewell.

Australia’s favourite double act came back together twelve years later for the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s 30th Birthday Gala, with a surprise performance at the Regent Theatre that brought the house down. It naturally led to a serious “Waddya reckon?” chat. “Waddya reckon?” soon turned into “Yeah, why not?” and so FLY! was born: a truly epic show, a tribute to the Wright Brothers (why not?)… an overdue dose of stupid silly nonsense.

FLY! sold out theatres everywhere it went, proving that absence did indeed make the heart of Australian audiences grow fonder. In 2020 FLY! was recorded in a very special sell-out performance at Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, which was then released internationally on Amazon Prime Video.

In 2021, Frank and Col came back again with the aptly titled Lano and Woodley in: Lano and Woodley. The childlike naivety of Colin and Frank’s on-stage personae gives Lano & Woodley a universal appeal, with people of all ages piling in to see their blockbuster shows.

Live Shows

2022 – MOBY DICK
National Tour

2021 – Lano and Woodley in: Lano and Woodley
Melbourne Comedy Festival, Sydney Opera House, Malthouse Summer Stage, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse, Comedy Theatre Melbourne

2018-19 – FLY
Canberra Theatre, Newcastle, Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Theatre Royal Hobart, Regal Theatre Perth, Brisbane Powerhouse, Enmore Theatre Sydney, Chatswood Concourse Sydney, Hamer Hall Melbourne, Darwin, Cairns, Warragul, Bendigo, return season Adelaide Fringe 2019, Return Season Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2019 Sydney Opera House, Mildura, Wollongong, Port Macquarie, Gold Coast, Wagga Wagga Comedy Festival, Malthouse Theatre

2006 – Lano & Woodley Good Bye
National Tour

2005 Lano & Woodley Sing Songs
Hi-Fi Bar – Melbourne, Brisbane Powerhouse, Octagon Theatre – Perth, Newtown – Sydney, Governor Hindmarsh – Adelaide, Sale – Victoria

2004 – The Island
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Sydney Opera House 2005, Ten Days On The Island Festival 2005

2002 – Glitzy
Melbourne International Comedy Festival

2001 – Bruiser
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Victorian Regional Tour, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Sydney Opera House 2002, Perth Comedy Festival 2002, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2002. Victorian and South Australian Regional Tour 2003

2000 – Slick
Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Victorian Suburban Tour

1999 – Lano & Woodley at The Continental
Continental Café in Melbourne

1997 – Lano & Woodley Live
Comedy Theatre – Melbourne, Seymour Centre – Sydney, His Majesty’s Theatre – Perth

1995 – Curtains
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Auckland Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Royal Festival Hall in London, Adelaide Fringe Festival 1996, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 1996, Wellington International Festival 1996, National Festival of Australian Theatre 1996

1993 – Fence
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Festival of Sydney 1994, Adelaide Fringe Festival 1994, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 1994, Auckland Comedy Festival 1994, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1994, British Festival of Visual Theatre 1994, Perrier Pick of the Fringe at the Lyric Theatre in London 1994, Cochrane Theatre in London 1994, Castlemaine Festival 1994, Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne 1994, Sydney Opera House 1995, Festival of Perth 1995, National Festival of Australian Theatre 1996

1993 – The Last Laugh Christmas Show – Ensemble Show
Last Laugh in Melbourne