One Night Stand Comedy

After years of being out of varsity, I stepped onto the University of Johannesburg’s Kingsway campus and it wasn’t for post-grad but for a comedy night thrill. I didn’t expect much from the occasion, because my mind had concluded that I was going to watch comedian wannabe’s back up a pro or two. At least those were my thoughts until I went back stage to find some of the best in SA comedy. The annual one night stand comedy has apparently been going on for years and has become one of UJ’s prime traditions.

Backed by Tropika, Loyiso Gola was the MC for the night. The tall man from Capetown is still one of the funniest guys in SA despite twitter critics writing off his “Late Night News” show on ETV. The humorist won favour of the crowd after a chirpy economics student tried to have a go at him, to his embarrassment, about 2000 students fell silent. Loyiso didn’t hesitate putting this young man in his place by saying: “you hear that silence, that’s for you”. The whole room was in stitches and clapping hands when he closed in for the kill by saying “Did you hear that noise? That was for me”.


Conrad Goch

The opening act came from a little man named Robbie Collins; he was funny to some extent but lost credit by repeating an old joke. Nonetheless, the crowd loved him. Tall ass Mo followed on stage and gave our abs a good workout. His sex jokes where killer and he received a standing ovation from the crowd. I was left wondering why he came on second. Conrad Goch, the ventriloquist redeemed his earlier jokes with his puppet and he too had the crowd going. Deep Fried Man was disappointing for me; he is a sing along comedian who rewrites famous songs with hilarious lyrics while playing his guitar. Pity I had seen some of his jokes a while back and even though he had 2 or more new tracks, I was still left disappointed.


Kagiso Lediga

I hadn’t seen Kagiso Lediga on stage in a while, he’s always had that simple-minded humour but the fact is, he remains humorous. He had a go at the president, well everybody does it but just not like Kagiso. Eugene Khoza was the only comedian that didn’t have a go at our beloved Jacob Zuma. I guess you’re either going to speak of him or sex; the hilarious sex jokes were the preferred option. Mr One line jokes Chris Forrest closed the show and had some of us still trying to figure out some of his jokes,I did my best to laugh at the ones I could get.


Eugene Khoza

Loyiso had good bye words for his critics, “change the channel” he said. I guess he’s got a point there, we do have that option. I suspect that most viewers expected him to be humorous because of his profession but I hear that his show is on a satirical tip and his skits basically serve the purpose of wittingly bringing social issues to our attention. In spite of everything, I bow down to the man, he is still a comedian, a show host and might even be a millionaire soon as he is one of a few celebs that are in line to win a million rand at the Tropika Island of treasure later in the year. @thahuslersa. Peace!