Comedy Central Africa Head Talks South African Comedy Scene

Publisher:
SmartMonkeyTV
Publication Date:
29 July 2014
Tags:
South Africa, Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Evert van der Veer, Head of Comedy, Africa on: the extent of the comedy scene and its more famous performers; race and religion as two defining topics in South Africa; taboos comedy tackles; the kinds of venues comedy plays in; international comedians' success in South Africa; the kind of local South African programmes on the Comedy Channel; and opening up local comedy programmes for Nigeria.

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