Comedy In Cape Town
Cape Town is a holiday-maker’s paradise with its coastal lifestyle, diverse history, and scenic beauty. Cape Town experience is full of sight-seeing natural wonders, bustling shopping malls, scenic seaside drives, wine tastings, and soaking in its diverse culture. Along with its natural and man-made attractions, it has a wealth of activities to offer to its tourists like adventure sports, theatre, music and art. Comedy in Cape Town to attracts tourists to the Mother City.
Comedy Shows in Cape Town
Comedy shows Cape Town is thriving due to the presence of many theatres, comedy clubs and comedy/stand-up artists. It has many A-listers in comedy performing sometimes in its various comedy venues. Almost every night there are much comedy acts happening from the city’s established and also up-coming comedians. Comedy in Cape Town is not only restricted to comedy shows but also has open mics performances and stand-up shows too. Dinner theatre in Cape Town is also very famous which has stand-up comedy acts with hosts, supporting acts, guest acts and open mic acts. Cape Town Comedy Club is the only comedy club in Cape Town. It is located at the Pumphouse in V&A Waterfront. It is one of the top 10 comedy clubs of the World. One finds the best of comedy shows here with both local and international iconic comedians performing on its stage. The venue’s environment is upmarket where patrons enjoy good food, drinks in a safe and fun environment.
Comedy venues in Cape Town
Most of the comedy nights in Cape Town are hosted in bars, nightclubs, and restaurants which have at least one night every week as the stand-up comedy night. Obviouzly Armchair is a backpackers bar and live music venue, which turns into a comedians platform every Sunday. It has been a famous stand-up comedy venue in Cape Town from almost two decades and most of the top locals had started their careers from here. The Hanover Street Night Club has a comedy night once a month featuring some of the city’s best comic performers. The SGT Pepper is famous for its underground comedy scene. Every Monday it has comedy performances by few established and few up-coming comedians. The Fireman’s Arm is the oldest pub of Cape Town. It is one of the most popular venues for comedy in Cape Town. Here one can find performances by Cape Town’s best stand-up comedians. One can see big international acts at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. It offers a slick and efficient atmosphere for established performances. The Baxter Theatre though is a traditional theatre but it plays host to regular one-man comedy shows and sometimes stand-up events. Theatre on the Bay and Masque Theatre both have regular comedy shows and stand-up events in Cape Town.
Annual Comedy Events in Cape Town
The Jive Cape Town Funny festival is the country’s first comedy festival in Cape Town. It takes place annually at the Baxter Theatre. It has performances by best comic artists in the World and most of South Africa’s comedy icons. Mother City Comedy Festival has started in 2019. It has two top comedy shows in Cape Town daily by top comedians. It will also have performances by upcoming comedians. The Cape Town International Comedy Festival has performances by the World’s best comedians. It attracts a lot of stand-up loving tourists to Cape Town. Some other prominent comedy events are Youth Comedy festival, Cape Town Fringe Festival, Mama City Improv Festival, and Cape Town Comedy Festival.
