To those of you logging on after the festival this might provide some idea of how stand-up comedy fared in 1999, surrounded by cheesy caberet, music, student drama, dance, and some very good and highly sponsored shows. If you're coming to South Africa, these are the comics to look out for. Click the links on the side to read daily coverage.
Starting today: David Kau as Previous Lee Disadvantaged in "The Rainbow Nation Tour", Al Prodgers In "Bad Manners", brit Martin Davies in "I May Be Ugly", Mark Banks in "Indelible Mark" and John Vlismas in "Aggravated Assault".
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| Time |
Show & Artist |
About the show |
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| 14:00 |
Rainbow Nation Tour Gauloises Comedy Club (Scout hall) |
Take a journey though the realities of the new South Africa with the hottest new and entirely black kid on the block, David Kau (pronounced cow-oo). |
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| 16:00 |
Bad Manners
Gauloises Comedy Club (Scout hall) |
After recent reviews accused him of getting soft and going too easy on his subjects... Al Prodgers has decided to be the nice guy no longer. Bad Manners will set the record straight. |
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| 18:00 |
I May Be Ugly
Gauloises Comedy Club (Scout hall) |
Martin Davis skids and bounces across the stage, strung up and tugged around by unknown forces, firing off a relentless, rapid-fire assault. |
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| 20:00 |
Indelible Mark
Gauloises Comedy Club (Scout hall) |
As South African theatre enters the doldrums with foreign funding from Denmark finally running out, Mark Banks blazes back to stage with a totally unoriginal and fairly funny show. |
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| 22:00 |
Aggravated Assault
Gauloises Comedy Club (Scout hall) |
In the barroom brawl of life it was all going fine until comedian John Vlismas discovered the truth, and suddenly it became aggravated assault. |
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