"I'd never had experience in stand-up comedy,"
recalls David, "the first comedy show I ever saw was
the first one I was in." And for the next few years
David was a headliner in this international comedy
festival.
David was South Africa’s representative at the
Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal,
Canada – year 2001. He performed in a show called
Globecom, alongside comedians from New Zealand,
Australia, Europe, and Canada. He was only meant to
do three performances of Globecom, however he
ended up performing in ‘Best of the Festival’
show, and another show showcasing the best of
Black comedians at the festival – 'The Best of
Uptown Comics'.
David performed in London at Riverside studios in
Hammersmith, for four weeks [09th March – 6th April]
– at the Stand Up South Africa U.K Comedy festival –
alongside six other top South African comedians.
He graduated at the end of 1998 with a Performers
Diploma in Speech and Drama at the University of
Cape Town, and is still paying off the loans and
fees for his studies. The Diploma has now been
upgraded into a degree …
David Kau
David was discovered at the Smirnoff International
Comedy festival at The Baxter theatre in Cape Town,
October 1998. The first time he ever performed as a
stand-up comedian. At that year’s festival there
were 44 comedians – 33 from London, Australia, USA –
11 South African – he was the only Black! The next
year he was the headliner at the same comedy
festival, two weeks at The Playhouse theatre in
Durban, another two weeks at The Baxter theatre in
Cape Town. He went on to perform at this comedy
festival for four years in a row.
His first one-man stand-up comedy show was ‘THE
RAINBOW NATION TOUR’, which took place at
the Grahamstown arts festival in
1999.
David Kau
His second one-man stand-up comedy show was 'INTRODUCING
THE PEOPLE’S COMIC – DAVID KAU', at The Baxter
theatre in Cape Town, June/July 2000. The title was
a take on The People’s player – Hansie Cronje; The
People’s Baas – Eugene Terreblanche; The
People’s Pastor – Allan Boesak; and of course – The
People’s Poet – Mzwakhe Mbuli. All this was very
appropriate and very topical at the time.
David recently performed in, and co-produced, the
first stand-up comedy show with a line up of all
black comedians – The Smirnorff Comedy Blackout,
which ran at the Globe theatre, Gold Reef City
casino from 9th July – 21st July 2002. Since then
he’s performed in the 5fm Comedy Jam’s in Cape Town,
Port Elizabeth, Durban, and Bloemfontein.
David Kau
He was born in the small town of Kroonstad in the
Free State, sometime around the 18th April 1978.
His first performance in Johannesburg was at the
first 5fm Heavyweight Comedy Jam, Gallagher Estate
24th July 2000, with an audience of about 3000
people … 0ver 2990 of them White!
Although a lot of people think he’s Dadaman, HE IS
NOT! He was actually Little Brown Kau on the Phat
Joe Live TV show … while it was still on E-TV.
He continued working with Phat Joe on The Phat
Joe Show now on SABC1, until March 2002 when he
went to London. Now he just pops in every now and
then, for an interview … or to tell a joke or two.
You probably think he’s the guy in the Toyota Tazz
commercial … HE IS!
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