I would like to congratulate the organisers and the performers of the Cape Town International Comedy Festival. This year you will have brought this event to our city for the 10th time, and it is getting bigger every year.

I hope that you will celebrate your anniversary in style, and that you will keep coming back. We welcome you to our city, because we need and value your work. You have become an important part of the vibrant cultural life that has made Cape Town world famous. You also keep us, the leaders of the City and the Province, on our toes. Most of all, you give our city the good laugh it deserves.

Helen Zille
MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN

Welcome to the 10th Cape Town International Comedy Festival. South Africa's biggest and funniest comedy festival, featuring the world's leading stand-up comedians alongside South Africa's home-grown funny men.

This year the Cape Town International Comedy Festival (CTICF) celebrates 10 years of scintillating comedy with a bigger, better and bolder festival that can take its place proudly alongside the world's major comedy events.

The Comedy Festival is now a ‘festival’ in the truest sense of the word, with this year's programme expanded to incorporate five separate shows that run concurrently for the duration of the festival's three week run in September.

Our 10th birthday programme still sees the Main Arena programme of mainstream, more family-oriented comedy at the Baxter Theatre, while the more risqué Danger Zone returns to the Baxter Concert Hall. The Baxter will also host The Best of the Fest shows each Sunday night.

Three exciting additions to the Festival take place at the V&A Waterfront. In a first for South African comedy we present Queercom, a glittering galaxy of the world’s best gay comedians, and The Very Late Show, a weekend-only rollercoaster ride hosted by Corne and Twakkie from The Most Amazing Show. Lastly, to give something back to the city that has so loyally supported us over the years, we present free for your enjoyment, 10 of the world’s leading Street Comedy Performers whose mind-blowing antics literally take physical comedy to new heights.

Need a laugh? See you there.

Sam Hendrikse
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR