Riaad Moosa

Riaad Moosa (1977-). Stand-up comedian and magician.

A qualified medical doctor, he started his stage career as a comedy magician, and became a regular headliner on comedy circuits all over South Africa. He was part of the very successful Laugh Out Loud comedy series on television as well as performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the Cape Comedy Collective.

His show, Strictly Halaal has played to sold out houses around the country, For the Baracka, was performed at the Mandela Theatre in Johannesburg in 2008. In 2008-9 and 2009-2010 did 3 Wiser Men (with Marc Lottering and Nik Rabinowitz).

Awards, etc.

In March 2011, Moosa was awarded the Comics Choice Award at the first annual South African Comic's Choice Awards.

Sources

Wikipedia [1].

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