<p>In between banging his fists on the table a lot, stand up comic Kagiso “KG” Mokgadi discusses some of the challenges of being a South African comedy heavyweight, including landing on your face, dying in a casino, and being forced to perform in feathers, by candlelight,&nbsp;for a sultan and a woman in thrifted high heels.</p>

2. Rob van Vuuren: Golden Leotards and Giant Fake Penises

South African comedian Nik Rabinowitz has spent the last twenty years performing stand-up. Before that he grew up on a farm outside Cape Town, delivering soliloquies up pine trees and commentating on his own rugby games in three of the country’s eleven official languages. Mid-pandemic, Nik sat down to record a series of conversations with fellow performers to reconnect and reminisce about the pre-covid “olden times”, and explore a range of other topics including the behind-the-scenes world of stand-up, and the evolution of South African comedy.