By now we can comfortably say that Hong Kong is back to normal, and by normal we mean bizarre news and most of us complaining about our first world problems. While most of the world is still reeling from an economic crisis and feeling its effect on a daily basis, we are getting on boats […]

The Hong Kong comedy scene is picking up a lot of steam these days, it’s not unusual now to find 3 different standup gigs happening on the same night! This week we chat about managing our time running between gigs, the dynamics of doing shows for corporate events and office parties, how to set up […]

Our guest this week is Chinese Canadian comedian Tim To. He is one of the fastest rising stars in The HK comedy scene. Tim has led a very interesting life before he started doing comedy, from owning a bar and a Chinese buffet in Toronto at the age of 20 to getting arrested in Hong […]

Our guest this week is comedian Bryan Bentley. Before starting doing standup, Byran regularly attended live standup shows. He would always sit in the front row and quite often the comedian on stage would recognize him from a previous show. One day Bryan decides to take the leap and try his hand at standup himself. […]

Hong Kong has been having a pretty brutal heatwave (it’s also T8 the day this episode drops). Seems like every summer now we see the same headline “This is the hottest July HK has seen since Julius Caesar”. This week we ask our indoors expert and notorious outdoors hater Vivek Mahbubani on what the hell […]

We are back with a classic episode of travel tales, air travel failures and Chinese airport shenanigans. Mohammed takes the lead on this one as he recounts why he had to buy three different airplane tickets to make his show in Singapore on time, then he goes home to Egypt for the first time in […]

This week Mohammed flies to Egypt for family duty and we just couldn’t get our schedules to align before his flight so Vivek finds himself all alone in the studio and you, our dear listener, get a very high concentrated dose of Vivek-ness. Vivek covers everything from “A week in the life of a comedian” […]

If you ever pass by Soho or go up the mid-level escalator, it’s highly likely you’re familiar with the delicious bakery smell. You know that bakery smell so good it makes you think “whatever this is, I want it” and it draws you in like a zombie. Well, that’s Bakehouse. The darling of Hong Kong […]

As we gear up for Dr. Jason Leong’s sold out shows this Saturday at PMQ, there are so many moving parts to producing a comedy show, one of those parts is the light fixtures and their position on the ceiling. Turns out, you can’t just get up to the ceiling via a Scissor Lift if […]