--- title: "Donna Brookbanks: Stand-Up Comedian, TV Roles | D.O.C." description: "Donna Brookbanks is a comedian, actor, improviser and writer working in New Zealand, and a Raw Comedy semi-finalist in 2016. Stand-up comedy." url: https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-donna-brookbanks.html updated: 2026-11-13 --- Stand-up comedian # Donna Brookbanks ## Who Donna Brookbanks is Donna Brookbanks is a comedian, actor, improviser and writer working in New Zealand, and a Raw Comedy semi-finalist in 2016. She appeared on Next Big Things at the New Zealand Comedy Festival and in the Comedy Debate at the Queenstown Winter Festival in 2015. On television she has appeared on the panel show Best Bits, written for Jono and Ben and written and performed in the sketch show Funny Girls. She also produces and plays in the weekly improv show Snort at The Basement Theatre. ## Follow their dates Put them in your D.O.C., your twelve, and the free D.O.C. letter brings their new dates, episodes and videos each week. Saw them live? [Make a card →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/share-my-doc.html#live) ## Is Donna Brookbanks on tour? **No upcoming dates on record** No upcoming dates are on record right now. That doesn't mean they have stopped touring; follow them to hear when the next ones are booked. Last checked 13 November 2026. ### Are they coming to my town? No dates are on record right now (checked 13 November 2026), so no town is confirmed yet. Follow them and your town to hear when one is booked. ### Want them in your town? Name your town and how many of you would come: the towns fans ask for show here, with how many asked. Lineups belong to the rooms and the comedians, and can change; each listing has the last word. [Their nights on the Comedy Calendar →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-calendar.html) [Build a night out around their show →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/build-my-comedy-night.html) ## Specials, shows and podcasts ### On screen - **Best Bits** - **Funny Girls** - **Jono and Ben** writer ## Comedians like Donna Brookbanks Each linked to them by something on the record — a stage they both came through, a bill, a show, a style or a home town. - [Chris Parker](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-chris-parker.html) also in Funny Girls - [Nic Sampson](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-nic-sampson.html) also in Funny Girls - [Calise Hawkins](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-calise-hawkins.html) also in Funny Girls - [Ester Steinberg](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-ester-steinberg.html) also in Funny Girls - [Guy Williams](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-guy-williams.html) also in Jono and Ben - [Jamaine Ross](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-jamaine-ross.html) also in Funny Girls - [Matt Coombe](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-matt-coombe.html) also in Jono and Ben - [Shannon Laverty](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-shannon-laverty.html) also in Funny Girls [Six Degrees of Komic Bacon: how they connect to anyone →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/six-degrees-of-komic-bacon.html) [Every stand-up comedian with a page, A to Z →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/stand-up-comedians.html) ## Questions and answers ### Where is Donna Brookbanks performing next? No date is on D.O.C.'s Comedy Calendar right now. ### What TV shows and films are they in? Best Bits, Funny Girls and Jono and Ben (writer). ### Who are some comedians like them? [Chris Parker](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-chris-parker.html) (also in Funny Girls), [Nic Sampson](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-nic-sampson.html) (also in Funny Girls), [Calise Hawkins](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-calise-hawkins.html) (also in Funny Girls), [Ester Steinberg](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-ester-steinberg.html) (also in Funny Girls) and [Guy Williams](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-guy-williams.html) (also in Jono and Ben). ## Is this you? This page can be your website, free. Send your bio in your own words, your links, your clips, who books you, a line said about you and your weekly show, and they go on this page beside the dates D.O.C. already keeps. Fans follow you here and get your news in the D.O.C. letter. Your short address, for your bio: **disciplesofcomedy.com/donna-brookbanks** [Make this page yours →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-profile.html) [Your dates on your own site](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/tour-dates-widget.html) [Your show on a poster](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedy-show-flyer-maker.html) ## 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. [Their SUCDb record →](https://disciplesofcomedy.com/comedian-donna-brookbanks.html) ### Sources - [Classic Comedy NZ ↗](https://www.comedy.co.nz/comedians/profiles/donna-brookbanks/) Actor, comedian, improviser and writer; Raw Comedy semi-finalist 2016; Next Big Things; Queenstown Winter Festival Comedy Debate 2015; Best Bits, Jono and… Updated 13 November 2026 · the record checked 12 November 2026