Standup Fest 2026 at Dorćol Platz in Belgrade from October 15: the fifteenth edition opens with a Jelena Radanović premiere

The fifteenth Standup Fest, the festival of the Belgrade club Standup.rs, takes place at Dorćol Platz in Belgrade. Four nights are on sale at tickets.rs: the October 15 opening with Jelena Radanović's premiere "Dužna u ljubavi", "World Stage" on October 16, an international night of stand-up comedy in English, Nikola Radojlović's premiere "Moj red" on October 17, and Srđan Dinčić's premiere "Katran i perje" on October 18. The organisers promise more than ten Serbian comics and at least five from the region, across two stages.

Standup.rs launched the stand-up scene in Belgrade in spring 2009, with nights at the bar "Blow Up" and Serbia's first open mics. From a fringe format it grew into a festival and its own club, "Ben Akiba", named after Branislav Nušić's pen name. Nušić, as it happens, spent part of his life in Bitola and Skopje, so the festival carries a name Macedonians know well too.

Jelena Radanović is a sociologist by training and the resident comic at Standup.rs. The English-language portal Emerging Europe called her the first lady of Serbian stand-up. She builds her material on observation, sarcasm and self-irony, with herself and everyday life in Belgrade as her main topics. Nikola Radojlović also opened the festival with his solo show in 2021, and Dinčić, the comic from Sremska Mitrovica, is one of the names the scene grew up with.

Tickets for each of the premiere nights cost 1,500 dinars (about 790 denars) and are on sale through tickets.rs. The opening is on Thursday, October 15, from 20:00.