Demi Lardner
Stand-up comedian

Demi Lardner

Who Demi Lardner is

Demi Lardner is an Australian stand-up comedian from South Australia, known for surreal, unpredictable and high-energy live shows. Lardner won the national final of RAW Comedy in 2013 and the same year took joint first place at So You Think You're Funny? at the Edinburgh Fringe, then won the Sydney Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer award in 2016.

At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Lardner won the Directors' Choice Award in 2017 for Look What You Made Me Do and the Pinder Prize in 2018 for I Love Skeleton; in 2019 Ditch Witch 800 was nominated for Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and Lardner and Tom Walker shared the Sydney Comedy Festival's Director's Choice award for We Mustn't. Away from stand-up Lardner voices Alison in the animated series Koala Man, co-hosts the podcast Bigsofttitty.PNG with Tom Walker and is a cast member of the Dungeons & Dragons podcast Dragon Friends.

At a glance

Podcasts
Bigsofttitty.PNG, Dragon Friends and We Are Not Doctors
On screen
Koala Man and Lesbian Space Princess

On stage

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Specials, shows and podcasts

On screen

Podcasts

Their stand-up

Demi Lardner began performing at open mics in Adelaide at 15, won Adelaide Comedy's Rising Starr Award for Best Newcomer in 2010, and co-wrote and performed in Wolf Creek, The Musical, which won BankSA's Best Emerging Comedy Show Award at the Adelaide Fringe.

Look What You Made Me Do also won the Underbelly Edinburgh Award at the Adelaide Fringe in 2017, Ditch Witch 800 won Best International Show at the 2019 New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and Lardner has collaborated with the comedy group Aunty Donna, featuring on their 2018 single Best Day of My Life.

Career timeline

  1. 2015We Are Not Doctors (co-host, with Bart Freebairn, 2015–2017) Podcast or book
  2. 2023Koala Man (voice of Alison, Hulu and Disney+, 2023) On screen
  3. 2024Lesbian Space Princess (voice, film, 2024) On screen

Questions and answers

Where is Demi Lardner performing next?

No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now.

What podcasts have they been on?

Bigsofttitty.PNG, Dragon Friends and We Are Not Doctors.

What TV shows and films are they in?

Koala Man and Lesbian Space Princess.

The full SUCDb record

The full record — the career in order, the specials and credits, and the sources for each — is on SUCDb, with a button to add them to your D.O.C., your twelve.

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Sources

Updated 9 October 2026 · the record checked 6 October 2026