SA’s Funniest Game Of Golf Returns
“The perfect sunny break in the middle of winter to enjoy some laughs while raising money for an amazing cause.” That’s how one high-spirited golfer summed the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival Golf Day. Friday, 5 July saw the arrival of the second Funny Festival Golf Day...
Funny Festival Celebrates Their Sponsors
Behind every successful event is a group if generous sponsors and partners who recognise the value of the project they support. The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival is no different, and thanks to their support, the event is able to bring the best local and international...
Brunch With A View
While a brunch in the clouds would normally be synonymous with a heart-stopping cable car ride to the top of Table Mountain, mother nature had different plans on 3 July, when even the view from the Lower Cable Station's viewing deck was a foggy one. But not even that...
Obakeng Moroe Wins Kasi World Comedy Showdown
On the 22nd of June 2019, nine finalists competed for the coveted title of Kasi World Comedy winner. That title went to Obakeng Moroe of Kraaifontein, taking home R5 000 and a spot on the prestigious Jive Cape Town Funny Festival.
Make Your Laughs Count With FoodForward SA
As part of their 10th anniversary celebrations, FoodForward SA is proud to partner with the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival this year. Get your Funny Festival tickets for the 24 July show through FoodForward SA and you will be helping the organisation distribute enough...
Adelaide Fringe Has Lessons For Cape Town
As a veteran of ten Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and numerous European variety and cabaret festivals, Eddy Cassar was impressed by how the Adelaide Fringe - the oldest and largest of its type in the Southern Hemisphere - has developed a programme designed to get...
Join the Funny Festival Golf Day!
The 2nd Jive Cape Town Funny Festival Golf Day is almost sold out! If you still want to join the Funniest Golf Day in the City, filled with unique watering holes, bizarre activations and loads of laughter, while raising money for Heart FM’s 16 Days for Youth campaign...
Nine Finalists For Cape Town’s Funniest New Comic Search
The Kasi World Comedy Showdown, the new initiative of the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival, which for the last four weeks has combed the Cape Town townships to search of the city’s newest funny person, has found nine talented finalists to compete for the title....
Funny Festival Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary
That the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival is celebrating a fifteen year milestone is noteworthy. However, the real success is that it plays to absolutely full houses night after night for a month in mid-Winter. That’s Eddy Cassar's rare talent. How is it that he presses...
Searching The Townships For Cape Town’s Funniest New Comic
A new initiative of the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival is to search the entire city and uncover for Cape Town’s next great comic. The township-wide search, aptly called Kasi World Comedy Showdown, has opened its call for entries to search for the city’s next great...
The 15th Jive Cape Town Funny Festival: 1 – 28 July At The Baxter Theatre
Cape Town’s Winter comedic tonic, the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival, opens at the Baxter Theatre from 1-28 July for its fifteenth year. The Festival’s unique characteristic is that it presents international speciality acts alongside local stand-up comics. Regarded as...
Funny Festival Dishes Up Five Star Entertainment
The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival delivered by Turkish Airlines Baxter Theatre – 9 July – 5 August Festival producer – Eddy Cassar Cast – Alan Committie, Marc Lottering, Tats Nkonzo, Reagen Allen, Rob van Vuuren, Siv Ngesi, Khanyisa Bunu, Gerry Connolly – Australia,...