Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Since Comedy on Long was launched at the newly renovated Zula Bar on 98 Long Street in Cape Town, it has become a really popular destination for people looking for a good night out. It has grown a loyal following of comedy lovers who have supported Comedy on Long since the beginning. This February we are very lucky because we have Martin Davis hosting the whole month and on Monday, 6th February 2012 Comedy on Long has a line-up of good comedians including:
Deep Fried Man (Winner of the 2011 “Best Newcomer” at the SA Comics Choice Awards)
Kurt Langeveld
Paul Snodgrass (“I’m so Lonely”)
Tracy Klass (“Klass Act”)
Gary McCool (2 Oceansvibe Radio)
Comedy on Long last night at Zula Bar was fantastic. Having only been running for a few months now (since Mumz-The-Word took over the venue from the previous comedy crew) with a fully booked audience last night, it was definitely evident that the event has become the best Comedy event on Long Street.
Next week we have another fantastic line-up including: 4 open mics, Rustum August and Dylan Skews as headliner… Make sure that you book. For those of you who came to the comedy last night you will realise why booking is so important. Booking to: jen@zulabar.co.za
Gatecrasher Summer Music Festival and Paul Van Dyk Turn up the Heat in South Africa! Gatecrasher Summer Music Festival brought to you by Soundscape hits South Africa in February 2012 for a spectacular outdoor international electronic music event at D’Aria Wine Estate in Durbanville Hills, Cape Town. Gatecrasher is an international clubbing brand made famous for its dance music events in the UK. The Gatecrasher Summer Music Festival takes place on the 4th and 5th of February 2012, featuring Paul Van Dyk and many other artists. Revelers can expect a weekend of extravagant, exciting and exhilarating entertainment. In the world of electronic dance music, names don’t come any bigger than Germany’s Paul Van Dyk.
The maestro behind classic anthems like “For an Angel”, “Words”, “Another Way”, “Beautiful Place” and “Forbidden Fruit” is set to rock the festival along with over 50 supporting national DJs and live acts. Dean Fuel, Headroom, Haezer, Niskerone, Broken Toy, Jason47, Digital Divas, Grimehouse and Marvin and many others will be keeping the party going all weekend. The Gatecrasher Summer Music Festival is devoted to celebration, while also creating an alternate dance reality space for partygoers. The sizzling weekend will consist of jet-skis, paragliding; paintball, safe and secure camping, live saxophonist, percussionists and many other forms of entertainment. Key features include a meet and greet with Paul Van Dyk, three arenas including the massive Gatecrasher main arena, multiple VIP zones and a VIP Village. Cocktail and martini bars, swimming, quad biking, food market, massive turbo sound, lighting shows, aerialists, world-class sound and lighting production, chic décor and many other highlights add to the weekend’s celebrations.
As you should know by now, Mumz The Word runs regular comedy evenings at Zula Bar every Monday called “Comedy on Long” (as in the BEST comedy on Long Street). Below you will see all the line-ups for December:
The poster above should say 19th December and not the 17th.
For the best comedy in Cape Town and on Long Street, make sure you go through to Zula Bar, every Monday for “Comedy on Long”. Comedy start at 9pm sharp, bookings can be made through: jen@zulabar.co.za. Zula Bar (98 Long Street, Cape Town)
Here is the line-ups for December Line-ups at Zula Bar “Comedy on Long”:
5th Dec: Martin Davis (Host), Marcel Oudejans (Headliner), Small Paul (Guest Act)
12th Dec: Barry Varkel (open mic), Anne Hirsch (Headliner), Mum-z (Host), Dalin Oliver (Open mic)
17th Dec: Martin Davis (Host), Gary Cool (Open mic), Chris Steenkamp (Support), Piet Potgieter (Headliner)
DETAILS
Time: 9pm
Entrance: R50 (normal), R40 (members), R25 (students)
Venue: Zula Bar (98 Long Street, cape Town CBD)
To become a member just fill out the form on: http://www.mumz-the-word.com/comedy-on-long/
1 person likes this post.
* LINEUP SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE *
THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER – 20h30 Players Café @ The River Club, Observatory
HOST = TRACY KLASS – THE SASSY LADY FROM SEA POINT
SUPPORT = PIET POTGIETER – THE VERY FUNNY DUTCHMAN
SUPPORT = GINO FERNANDEZ – SMART & IMAGINATIVE
OPEN MIC = MOENIEL JACOBS (MOJO) – CAPE FLATS COMEDY INCARNATE
HEADLINE = MEL JONES – SEXY & VIVACIOUS
THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER – 20h30 Players Café @ The River Club, Observatory
HOST = DUGALD PIETERSE – COMEDIAN, MC & RADIO PRESENTER
SUPPORT = THE BROTHERS STREEP – ACOUSTIC COMEDY BAND
OPEN MIC = CALVIN BENSON – FRESH, FUNNY AND FUNKY …
HEADLINE = MARK PALMER – CLEAN, CLASSY AND VERY FUNNY
THURSDAY 17 NOVEMBER – 20h30 Players Café @ The River Club, Observatory
HOST = DAVE LEVINSOHN – SA’S MOST ORIGINAL COMIC [JHB]
SUPPORT = ANNE HIRSCH – SO YOU THINK YOU FUNNY SEASON 2 WINNER
OPEN MIC = TASHRIQ AHMED – ADVOCATE OF COMEDY
OPEN MIC = OLIVER BOOTH – ENERGETIC PERFORMER WITH A ZANY TAKE ON REALITY
HEADLINE = STUART TAYLOR – COMEDIAN, MAGICIAN & TV PERSONALITY
THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER – 20h30 Players Café @ The River Club, Observatory
HOST = MARTIN EVANS – SHARP, WITTY & VERY ENTERTAINING
SUPPORT = WERNER WEBER – PART FRENCH, PART GERMAN, BUT 100% SOUTH AFRICAN
OPEN MIC = AGGREY LONKE – LEGENDARY IMPERSONATOR & STAR OF ZANEWS
HEADLINE = NIK RABINOWITZ – SA’S FUNNIEST JEWISH SPEAKING XHOSA COMEDIAN
TICKETS FOR THURSDAY SHOWS – no under 18′s
R80pp / R40 student with a valid student card:
*
ONLINE: www.webtickets.co.za (pay via credit card or EFT)
* AT DOOR: subject to availability (doors open 19h00) THURSDAY SHOW TIMES:
Doors open Thursdays 19h00. The show starts 20h30 and ends approx 22h30-22h45. There is also a short interval during the show. OUR THURSDAY COMEDY VENUE:
Players Café, The River Club, cnr Liesbeek Parkway & Observatory Road, Observatory: view directions. The venue offers ample secure parking, great food, a bar and a comfortable experience for all comedy lovers. Halaal-friendly meals are available before and during the show – view menu. ON SALE EVERY THURSDAY:
Comedy club gift vouchers and comedy DVD BOOK US FOR YOUR COMEDY EVENTS:
We are available for private events (eg. birthday parties, reunions etc), corporate functions (eg. team-building events, year-end functions etc) or fundraising events. The comedy club concept is flexible and can be tailor-made to your specific requirements. FOR MORE INFO:
www.kurt.co.za / events@kurt.co.za
This Tuesday, you would actually be stupid not to come to the Funny Bones Comedy Night at the Purple Turtle. Not only is there a killer line-up (which I will fill you in on a little later), there will be a free Castle Lite on entry and it’s the beginning of the month for all those cheapskates who only go out for the first 10 days of each month (after which you’re broke and bumming cigarettes from me).
Now, about that line-up, Mum-z will be hosting the night of comedy with his usual sense of charming silliness. The king of sell-out comedy, Paul Snodgrass, will be headlining (and by “sell-out” I don’t mean that he is a “sell-out” I just mean that his one man show at On Broadway was SOLD OUT). His energy and observational sense of humour makes this comedian one of Cape Town’s top comedic acts. Augmenting the line-up with some intellectual, sharp, witty and just plain damn funny jokes from Peter Sserwanga whose career in comedy has been quite meteoric, considering he has only been in the comedy scene for such a short period of time and he has already performed major festivals like the 2010 Nandos Comedy Festival (Cape Town). The icing sugar of this comedy-cake is KG. KG is a comedian whose circumstances in his life allow him to produce comedy content that is extremely unique and peaks the interests of audiences all over South Africa.
The best thing about this line-up is that all 4 of the above comedians will be performing comedy at the Rocking The Daisies Cape Town music festival over the weekend.
This Tuesday is bound to be great, so you must make sure that you must book your table so that you can have a great seat for the show. All bookings need to be made with Purple Turtle at: 021 424 0811
Time: Doors open – 8pm, Comedy starts: 9pm
Address: Corner Shortmarket and Long Street, Cape Town CBD
Entrance: R40
Event: STAND UP AFRICA COMEDY EXPERIENCE
Date: Friday, 04 November
Venue: Emperor’s Palace – 64 Jones Road, Kempton Park, Johannesburg
Tickets are available at www.computicket.com or at www.tixsa.co.za – prices range from R180 to R250 Doors Open: 19:00 PM Show starts: 20:00 PM The first ever event of its kind on the African continent, this fantastic comedy fest brings together big name acts such as Nigeria’s Basketmouth and Klint the Drunk; Daliso Chaponda from Malawi; Uganda’s David Kibuuka; Carl Joshua Ncube from Zimbabwe as well as South Africa’s Kagiso Lediga and Ndumiso Lindi. Also guaranteed to get the crowd on their feet is a special performance by iconic kwaito band TKZee while the Naked DJ will also rock the party at Stand up Africa on Friday, November 4 at Emperor’s Palace.
With a groundbreaking weekly television show on e.tv & eNews that is taking South African by storm, Loyiso Gola celebrated his tenth anniversary in comedy earlier this year with a performance of his new one man show aptly titled LIFE & TIMES. Now an award winning comedian and recognised as one of the most gifted comedians of his generation, this show once again served to confirm the comedic genius of this prodigious talent.
Due to an overwhelming demand, this show returns for one more run in Johannesburg at the Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City on the 11th & 12th of November. This show will also serve to launch his DVD of the same title.
With his sharp wit, unmistakable charm and thought provoking comedy style, Loyiso Gola has been enthralling, mystifying and entertaining audiences for an entire decade. In an intelligently frank but tasteful manner, he has made a living of telling it like it is – a modern day George Carlin with his outspokenness mixed with the street smart of a latter day Chris Rock and the attitude of a young defiant Richard Pryor.
His first one man show – Loyiso Gola for President – enjoyed groundbreaking success, earned him rave reviews and served to announce his arrival as one of the country’s best comedians, (if not one of the most refreshing presidential candidates of our time!). As a result, he went on to win a South African Comedy Award for “Best Breakthrough Comedy Act” that year and was later nominated in the “Best Comedian of the Year Award” category at the Stars of Mzansi Awards.
“A group of young, black comics are breaking taboos, cracking controversial jokes and taking South Africa by storm. Loyiso Gola is one of them!” – The Wall Street Journal, USA
Since then, Loyiso’s rise in the comedy ranks has been nothing short of meteoric. His illustrious career boasts of performances at all the major comedy events on the local comedy calendar as well as performances in the UK, the US, Dubai, Nigeria, Mauritius and Botswana. During this time he has performed alongside the best the country has to offer as well as shared the stage with some of the best comedians in the world, in the likes of Russell Peters, Paul Rodriguez, Pablo Francisco, Mark Curry, Jim Jefferies, Brandon Burns, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Pickering, Rhod Gilbert, Basketmouth and many others.
He now also has several television and movie credits to his name including being on the unforgettable Pure Monate Show, co-hosting a television show with iconic comedian Pieter Dirk Uys as well as enjoying a cameo on MTV Films’ Bunny Chow. His DVD credits include the best-selling Just Because Comedy Festival 1, Just Because Comedy Festival 2, Outrageous and his own greatly received one man show – Loyiso Gola for President.
In a South African first – Loyiso is also now the host of his own news show on etv – the groundbreaking and cutting edge – Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola. In stroke of genius by the channel and a great show of support, etv commissioned the show in 2010 and now in its second season, the show pulls in over a million viewers per episode nationwide.
2011 started for Loyiso with a nomination in the “Best Comedian of the Year” category at the inaugural instalment of the Comics Choice Awards. This recognition from his peers, a clear testament of the position he now holds amongst the country’s comedy heavyweights. The journey there has been a 10 year odyssey of madness – during this time Loyiso has experienced LIFE, developed his craft and evolved as a comedian while the country has navigated through some interesting TIMES; socially, economically and politically.
In LIFE & TIMES an older, more enlightened and insightful Gola brings to the stage some of his most celebrated material amassed over a decade of performance interwoven in a narrative that includes content about the events and people who have shaped the country and the world we live in over the past 10 years. Given his affinity towards frank and observational social commentary as well as a politically satirical angle that has been richly honed by his outspoken television show, this live show boldly goes where no other comedian has gone before (or dares to for that matter!).
In the same way that comedy audiences have come to know the prodigiously talented Loyiso Gola, he will blow patrons away with his tear-jerkingly funny stories and hard hitting punch lines. He will also be launching the DVD for LIFE & TIMES at the show and this will be the first time the DVD will be available to the public.
Catch the show 11th and 12th of November 2011 at the Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City. Tickets for the show are priced at R100 and R120 and can be bought online at www.computicket.co.za or at Computicket outlets nationwide.
Loyiso Gola’s LIFE & TIMES is proudly brought to you by Podium…The Comedy Merchants in association with e.tv and eNews.
Name of gig: Funny Bones Improv Comedy
Featured Acts: Glen Bidderman-Pam, Dylan Horley, Steve Norman and Matthew Alves.
Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Venue: Purple Turtle
Cover Charge: R40
Contact number for more information: 021 424 0811
Name of gig: Funny Bones Wildcard Weekend
Featured Acts: Oliver Booth, Dalin Oliver, Schalk Bezuidenhout, Shaun Fickling and Nick Jude
Date: Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Venue: Purple Turtle
Cover Charge: R40
Contact number for more information: 021 424 0811
Name of gig: Funny Bones Comedy Night
Featured Acts: Mum-z, Brendan Murray, Dylan Skews
Date: 27 September 2011
Venue: Purple Turtle
Cover Charge: R40
Contact number for more information: 021 424 0811
Name of gig: CPUT Campus Comedy Show
Featured Acts: Martin Davis, Mum-z, Dylan Skews, Lungelo Ndlovu, Rustum August
Date: Friday, 21 September 2011
Venue: SP van der Merwe (Wellington Campus)
Cover Charge: FREE
Contact number for more information: 082 717 0905
Name of gig: Rocking The Daisies Comedy Tent
Featured Acts: Mum-z, Siv Ngesi, Angel Blythe and many many more
Date: 7, 8 & 9 October 2011
Venue: Lemon Tree Theatre
Cover Charge: R150 – R550
Contact number for more information: 082 087 5748
Name of gig: Mykonos Comedy Night
Featured Acts: Mum-z, Mark Palmer, Siv Ngesi
Date: Friday, 14 October 2011
Venue: Mykonos Casino
Cover Charge: R100
Contact number for more information: 079 495 3989
Welcome to Mumz The Word (and no, this is not a real Facebook page). Let this site be your comedy playground. I will post articles of interest to the comedy industry and articles that are just generally funny. I would also like to encourage you guys to send through jokes that tickled you or made you hurl with unadulterated laughter.
