It’s Diwali week and we are in a festive mood. We chat about Diwali, call centers, the mysterious Indian man walking around Soho, Vivek auctioning himself off and the process of bringing touring comedians into HK.   One of Indians’ top English comedian Daniel Fernandes is performing live in HK Friday Nov 10 for only […]

Comedian Adam Hopkins started out his comedy career in Shanghai, where he was also working as a journalist. We chat to him about what it’s like working a journalist in China, the coolest interviews he’s done and why he eventually moved to Taiwan.    Get tickets to Backstage Comedy live shows here: https://linktr.ee/backstagecomedy Subscribe to our […]

Mohammed is back from Australia and has a lot to vent about. Despite Melbourne having the reputation of being one of the most liveable cities in the world, why is nobody working? How is everyone so relaxed and why is the HK public transport system so superior?    Come to Backstage Comedy shows this week […]

On this very special edition of Ho Ho Hong Kong, we have returning guest and co-host of ABC’s China Tonight Annie Louey back on the pod!  Mohammed is currently in Australia visiting Annie, doing shows and traveling around. Annie and Mohammed drove from Melbourne to Sydney and back. They catch up on the podcast to […]

Hong Kongers love their holiday travels. Favorite destinations list include Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea. Bali, Indonesia? Not so much. Luckily one of our hosts Mohammed has been to Bali multiple times and after his last trip there and his first one since the pandemic, he comes back with a full report. Should you visit […]

We had a busy week performing standup comedy om Friday at Basehall, Jardine House then on Saturday at Better With Beer Festival on the Central Harbourfront. Also, last week Clockenflap announced the lineup for this December’s edition. We get into it all then we get to our guest Ben Volchok. Ben is an award-winning comedy […]

Jinx Yeo is one of the top standup comedians out of Singapore.  He was nominated “Best Comedy” at the Fringe World Awards 2018. We chat to him about HK vs. Singapore, white people being offended on behalf of minorities and his weirdest gig ever performing for the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea   Get […]

Only a few days after typhoon Saola ravaged through Hong Kong, claiming some trees and forcing expats to cancel their dinner reservations which caused them big distress, we get hit with the longest black rainstorm alert ever recorded in Hong Kong, causing yet more expats to cancel their junk boat parties, which made them really […]

Beginning with just eight companies of performers in five venues, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (known as “the Fringe”) is now the biggest arts festival in the world, and welcomes tens of thousands of performers across over 250 venues every August. Our host Vivek Mahbubani just came back from his first time visiting and performing at The […]

Both our hosts are self-employed. Vivek Mahbubani runs two companies. He runs Hallf of Laughs with Comedian Tim Chan and he also has his own company representing himself. Mohammed Magdi owns and runs Backstage Comedy.  This week we get into all the nitty gritty of what it means to have your own startup in Hong Kong, […]