Meet Funny Festival Producer: Eddy Cassar
Eddy Cassar has spent his entire working career in events, either publicising them or organising them. Together with his life partner Jane, they started Eddy Cassar Public Relations in the late eighties with the first Comic Relief Red Nose Day. Since then, they have...
Funny Festival Encourages Winter Tourism
Cape Town is not called the “City of Great Events” for nothing. Throughout the year, the city plays host to scores of cyclists, athletes, jazz lovers and spectators, who come to the city specifically for an event, bringing much needed tourist Rands to an ever-growing...
Sponsor Message: Table Mountain Cableway
Table Mountain Cableway is proud to be a sponsor of the 2018 Jive Cape Town Funny Festival, which will be held at the Baxter Theatre from 9 July to 5 August 2018. (Original post published here.) Table Mountain Cableway, along with its Cape Town Big...
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Funny Festival
Think you know all there is to know about the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival, delivered by Turkish Airlines? Here are some funny facts about Cape Town's funniest comedy festival... A chance meeting with the legendary cast of the Carry On films in the early 1970’s led...
Producing Cape Town’s Favourite Comedy Festival
Show producer, Eddy Cassar shares the ins and outs of the festival, and just what goes in to putting this brilliant show together every year! Putting together the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival delivered by Turkish Airlines is no easy task. Top comic Tumi Morake...
Queen of England to officially open the CT Funny Festival
Her Majesty the Queen of England will grace the stage of the Baxter Theatre to officially open the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival delivered by Turkish Airlines. The popular Festival, now in its fourteenth year, runs from 9 July – 5 August. Her Majesty’s impersonator,...
A Country Of Comedy – Funny Facts
Charting the “history” of the South African comedy industry is no easy task. Where does one start, post 1994 or from the 1970s with the Biltong and Pot Roast series, or even before that, the 1960s? Books on the early history of Cape Town talk of a stand-up comedian...
2018 Adelaide Fringe Festival Review
“It’s a long way to go, but it’s certainly worth it” is the answer that Eddy Cassar, the curator and producer of the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival offers, to the question about his recent visit to the Adelaide Fringe Festival in South Australia. A veteran of ten...
Fourteen Years Of The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival
A look back at Cape Town's winter comedic tonic over the years, through the lens of Festival Producer, Eddy Cassar... With the arrival of democracy twenty four years ago, came a basket filled of new concepts such as one man one vote and freedom of speech. The...
Enjoy Group Booking Discounts
The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival, Cape Town's winter comedic tonic, offers incredible bulk booking discounts. The more you buy, the bigger you save! This is a brilliant fundraising platform for your club, business, school, or team. So gather your friends and start...
A Performer Day Out
The Cape Town Funny Festival has many generous partners and City Sightseeing is one of them. And in addition to transporting us to the country's oldest wine farm (which forms part of their Wine Tour route), they play a vital role in helping us turn our visiting...
Cape Town’s Winter Comedic Tonic Returns For 2017
Cape Town’s Winter comedic tonic, The Jive Cape Town Funny Festival delivered by Turkish Airlines returns to the Baxter Theatre for its 13th edition from 10 July to 6 August 2017. Boasting a stellar cast, which includes three internationally acclaimed comedy variety...