This #Weekend in Cape Town
Nik Rabinowitz – Stellenbosch
Where: A T K V - Boektent - Stellenbosch,
Western Cape
When: Saturday
March 4th at 9 PM
Meet Nik
Stand up comic Nik Rabinowitz grew up on a farm in Africa,
climbing trees and commentating on his own rugby games in three of South
Africa’s eleven official languages. He was raised on the mean, green streets of
Constantia, Cape Town, a world of ride-bys, piano lessons, and unrelenting love
and financial support from family members.
Despite all this hardship he has still managed to be
moderately successful, sporting a list of achievements the likes of which many
can only aspire to. For instance, he once posed nude. Not because anyone asked
him to, he just did it. Also, he represented South Africa at the Jewish
Olympics, which is like the Special Olympics, with more accountants.
[Little known fact: Rabinowitz is rumoured to be an
extraordinarily talented cricketer. In fact, his leg-spinning prowess was so
great that Pakistani bookmakers bankrolled his comedy career to keep his
stunning skills out of the international arena.
From a young age, when no-one was looking, he would pretend
to be his own praise-singer. For example: “Nik Rabinowitz! Makes toast like a
warrior, hunts peanut butter like a lion! Breakfast foods tremble in his
presence”. Later, at the Waldorf School, he learned how to grow his own
veggies, express his feelings through interpretative dance, and crochet his own
underpants.
International appearances include Australia, Canada,
Holland, the United Kingdom, the USA, and Zimbabwe. He’s been a guest on BBC 2’s
Mock the Week, performed at London’s Royal Albert Hall, and intentionally
driven on the wrong side of the road in Nigeria. His major claim to fame
remains the fact that he was born in a stable, and is one of only two Jewish
boys in the last two thousand years to have done so.
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