Riaad Moosa is a qualified doctor who became one of South Africa’s best-known stand-ups, with a career that includes the Pure Monate Show and Late Night News with Loyiso Gola, the film Material, and a turn as Ahmed Kathrada in Long Walk to Freedom. He is also, by his own admission, a doctor in quotation marks these days, which hasn’t stopped him from diagnosing comedy itself.
In this episode, we get into whether laughter is a painkiller or something closer to healing, why “aha” and “haha” sound like opposites but might be related, and why there is still no unified theory of comedy. We talk about the trappings of fame, ego death on stage, and how he balances creating comedy for the audience vs for himself. Enjoy.
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