Stuart Daulman

After years of unleashing characters, oddballs and theatrical nonsense onto Melbourne stages, Stuart Daulman steps into something refreshingly simple – himself. In this new hour of pure storytelling, he strips everything back to the essentials – a microphone, an audience and a collection of funny truisms gathered from a life lived sideways.

This isn’t a memoir, and it’s definitely not a self-help seminar. It’s Stuart sharing the kinds of stories that only become funny once enough time has passed: the moments that made sense later, the ones that never made sense at all and the tiny, relatable truths that show up in everyday life when you least expect them. It’s comedy without camouflage – warm, honest, lightly ridiculous and delivered with the ease of someone who’s spent 20 years figuring out how to talk to a room.

Across the hour, Stuart reflects on growing up, getting older, working too much, loving people, losing things, Melbourne oddness, creative detours, late-night revelations and the universal experience of realising that most of adulthood is just making the same mistakes with slightly better instincts. These aren’t punchline factories; they’re beautifully shaped stories that happen to be very, very funny.

With gentle humour, sharp timing and a knack for noticing the exact detail that turns a moment into something memorable, Stuart brings audiences into his world – not the heightened, character-filled version, but the quieter, more human one underneath. It’s a side of him rarely seen on stage: reflective, playful, warm and grounded, without ever losing that distinctive Daulman twist.

A show of funny truisms, small revelations and stories that hit close to home, this is Stuart Daulman at his most open and engaging. No characters. No chaos. Just good stories, well told.