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More on Riaad Moosa....
Riaad,
who is also a qualified medical doctor, started
doing standup comedy while still studying at the
University of Cape Town Medical School. He was an
instant hit, receiving rave reviews at his first
show.
Riaad
started performing stand-up at the Cape Comedy
Collective's free Comedy Lab workshops, and just two
months later he was the winner of the hotly
contested One City, Many Comics Talent Competition
held as part of the One City Festival in September
1999.
Being
one of the first members of the Cape Comedy
Collective, he became a regular headliner on the
comedy circuit during his rookie year, where he was
also invited to perform on Pieter Dirk Uys’s “Evita
Live and Dangerous” ETV comedy show.
Alongside comedians David Levinson and Paul
Snodgrass, he performed to sold-out shows in his
debut stand-up comedy theatre production “The
Paracomics” at Artscape in Cape Town.
Riaad’s humor is based on his experiences as a young
Muslim relating to post-911 Islamophobia, growing up
in Cape Town and general observational and
opinion-based humour. Skirting around the relatively
taboo topics with charm and ease this comedy doctor
will split your sides and keep you in stitches at
the same time.
In
2002, he supported Russel Peters in his show “Made
in India” at the Luxurama theatre where he received
excellent reviews. In 2002, Riaad was part of the
largest stand-up show in the history of South
African television “Laugh out Loud”, where he joined
nine of SA’s top comics to raise money for the
“Reach for a Dream” foundation.
In
2003, Riaad performed at the Ediburgh Fringe
festival, headlining in the “Cape Comedy Collective
-The new South Africa stands up” production. During
his month at the festival he performed with the top
comedians on the planet, displaying his special
brand of South African humour on a world stage. Now
a writer and performer for SABC 1’s the “Pure Monate
Show”, Riaad still does medical locums, but has
decided to give his full attention to his first
love…comedy.
In 2005, Riaad played a part in Crazy Monkey's
Straight outta Benoni, he had one small
line...
In September 2006 he launched his one-man show
Strictly Halaal. The show played to sold out shows
and continued into May 2007.
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