Search
Welcome
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
Not a subscriber? Subscribe here
Register Now
  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
                       
Careers & Tenders
Newsletters
Subscribe
The Mail & Guardian
      SUBSCRIBE / Support independent journalism                   CAREERS & TENDERS / Visit careers.mg.co.za                   WHATSAPP? / Follow the M&G WhatsApp channel here            
Login / Register

LOGIN

  • News
    • Africa
    • Business
    • Editorial
    • Education
    • Health
    • Motoring
    • National
    • Sci-tech
    • Sport
    • World
  • Thought Leader
  • Politics
  • Green Guardian
  • Friday
  • Features
    • Buthelezi, the King’s Hand
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2023
    • Cabinet Report Cards 2012-2021
    • The Fiscal Cliff
  • Research World
    • Submissions
    • Papers
  • Power of Women 2024
  • Events
    • 200 Young South Africans
    • Greening The Future
    • Power Of Women
      • 2024 Edition
    • Critical Thinking Forum
    • Youth Summit
    • Webinars
  • More..
    • Partners
    • Podcasts
    • Crossword
    • Digital Editions
    • Register
    • WhatsApp Channel
    • Login
    • Lost Password

           

Stand Up Comedy

Are women just not funny enough?
Article
/ 24 June 2016

Are women just not funny enough?

No female acts in the line-up of the almost month-long 12th Jive Cape Town Funny Festival.

By Sarah Koopman
Censoring satire: No inconvenient truths for us, please
Article
/ 12 November 2015

Censoring satire: No inconvenient truths for us, please

It’s becoming clear that local audiences feel uncomfortable hearing too much honesty or activism from the people they are paying to make them laugh.

By Kwanele Sosibo
Ava Vidal: Laughter eases the blow
Article
/ 5 November 2015

Ava Vidal: Laughter eases the blow

Ava Vidal is a comedian who doesn’t shy away from the truth, regardless of comedic trends.

By Kwanele Sosibo
Café by Durban day, carnival of comedy by night
Article
/ 15 May 2014

Café by Durban day, carnival of comedy by night

"No reason to be

at the mercy of

venues that don’t

really engage with

a proper set-up

for comedy."

By Zanele Mji
No image available
Article
/ 28 July 2008

Serious about comedy

By day Mamelo Mokoena works in online advertising. By night, Mum-z, his alter ego, is one of Johannesburg’s most vibrant up-and-coming comedians.

By Nobuhle Ncube
No image available
Article
/ 13 June 2008

Finding the happy anger

Jacob Zuma gets off lightly in John Vlismas’s new show, but he takes it out on whites.

By Kwanele Sosibo
No image available
Article
/ 11 April 2008

Everybody loves Chris

But for a trick of fate, Chris Rock might have been a truck driver. Instead the Brooklyn boy is the "funniest man alive".

By Ed Pilkington
No image available
Article
/ 4 April 2008

Gagging on sex and race

Warren Foster speaks to stand-up comedians about the Heavyweight Comedy Jam.

By Staff Reporter

MAIL & GUARDIAN

ABOUT

About
Contact
Advertise

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Subscribe
Newsletters

FOLLOW

WhatsApp Channel
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
Instagram
LinkedIn
TikTok
Threads

FLAGSHIP EVENTS

200 Young South Africans
Power Of Women
Greening The Future

LEGAL & CORRECTIONS

Privacy Policy
Cookie Policy
Ethics & Social Media Policy

RESOURCES

Mail & Guardian Careers
Property for sale


Mail & Guardian

© 2025 The Mail & Guardian. All rights reserved.

  • Login
  • Register
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
body::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 7px; } body::-webkit-scrollbar-track { border-radius: 10px; background: #f0f0f0; } body::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { border-radius: 50px; background: #dfdbdb }