No female acts in the line-up of the almost month-long 12th Jive Cape Town Funny Festival.
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.
Ava Vidal is a comedian who doesn’t shy away from the truth, regardless of comedic trends.
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.
Jacob Zuma gets off lightly in John Vlismas’s new show, but he takes it out on whites.
But for a trick of fate, Chris Rock might have been a truck driver. Instead the Brooklyn boy is the "funniest man alive".
Warren Foster speaks to stand-up comedians about the Heavyweight Comedy Jam.