The 6th Sydney Comedy Festival comes laden with promises of more fun and laughter for more Sydneysiders than ever before! New venues, new late night shows, new outdoor free events, a new dedicated program especially for kids plus a star studded line up of comedy's international superstars and home grown champions!

First 10 releases:

ROSS NOBLE (UK)
Adopted Geordie and all round nice guy played to thousands upon thousands in 2009 during his arena tour and is back for some more intimate unscripted performances in 2010.

DES BISHOP (IRE)
As a bona fide celebrity in his adopted home in Ireland having won many awards for his television productions, Des Bishop is now ready to embark on his first-ever national stand up tour of Australia. In mastering his acerbic observations on life in Australia, Des is sure to uncover many parts of our own identity we don't even know ourselves.

JASON BYRNE (IRE)
Jason is the highest selling act in the history of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is also the highlight of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's televised Gala every year. The highly anticipated Sydney Comedy Festival debut for this hugely energetic and exciting performer will sell out.

DAVID O'DOHERTY (IRE)
The winner of the Edinburgh Fringe 2008 if.comedy (formerly Perrier) award David O'Doherty returns to Sydney with his brand new show David O'Doh-Party. Very bad at describing his stand up comedy, this new show will be a bit like when you are going down a flight of stairs in the dark, and you think there are two steps left, but there only turns out to be one.

DOM IRRERA (USA)
The Italian mobster uncle you never had, all round wise guy and a legend in the American club scene. Did we mention he was on Seinfeld and The Big Lebowski too?

PABLO FRANCISCO (USA)
After 5 sell out shows in 2009 and millions of YouTube hits the master of voices and sound effects returns showcasing the best impressions you will ever hear of Michael J. Fox, Jackie Chan and of course Don Fontaine aka the movie voice over guy!

TONY WOODS (USA)
Renowned for his ability to transfix people worldwide with his incredible stories, and for men proposing to their partners during his show but perhaps more notorious for missing his flight the last two times he's been to Australia!

THE PAJAMA MEN (USA)
This year alone the duo from Albuquerque have sold out in Melbourne, London, Edinburgh and two shows at the Virgin Mobile Metro in Sydney. The most in demand comedy duo around right now with a new show! Get a babysitter this is not a show for the kids!

SHANE MAUSS (USA)
The underground comedy hit of 2009. Pronounced 'Moss' not 'Mouse'. You may have seen him earlier this year at the Sydney Comedy Store he performed a handful of dates all of which were sold out, you may have seen him partying in Surry Hills or on Conan O'Brien, he's been on the show multitudes of times and was a smash hit at the 2009 Just for Laughs, Montreal.

SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL CRACKER NIGHT
The Opening Night Gala of the Festival, Cracker Night has developed into Sydney's biggest annual night of laughter spanning across multiple venues in the city. To be staged on 20 April, the pinnacle event of the Sydney Comedy Festival promises to be the best sampler of comic fare in 2010.