Zimbabwean comedian, Wayne Mazadza, has penetrated the Scottish arts scene with a punch.
— By Our Staff/ Comedy.co.uk
The Edinburgh-based artist is hardly known back home but comedy followers in Scotland have fallen in love with his acts.
On Thursday he will be performing at The Arts School Union as part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
The 22-year-old comedian started performing in August 2011. At the comedy festival, he will perform an hour-long show titled Adopted.
Mazadza says he writes routines to surprise his fellow comedians “with unpredictable punchlines, storylines with surreal endings that really bring justice to the set-up.”
Fine-tuning them for up to six months, the Harare-born comic doesn’t just want audiences to laugh for a little bit.
“I want real clappers. I’m trying to make people remember me. I’m not just doing a gig for the sake of a gig,” he said.
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In his fledgling career, Mazadza has already reached the final of the Scottish Comedian of the Year and Laughing Horse New Act contests. He also took third place in the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny competition.
He cites other internationally successful acts like South African Trevor Noah and Americans Louis CK and Kevin Hart as his idols.
“I feel Hart is like me in a way, he came from nowhere. Now people just love him.”
He is about to start a course in filmmaking, which he has fallen in love with.
He also promised to come up with something that he might one day perform in Zimbabwe.
“I’ve never used [President] Robert Mugabe for a routine because it’s hard to think of material on him for some reason.”
