Kurt Schoonraad
Kurt Schoonraad
 
Kurt describes himself as "Mitchell's Plain, born and fled" and he bases much of his material on recollections of his upbringing. His physical style is reminiscent of a young Barry Hilton, and his comic impression of the Cape Flats man-on-the-street has already made him a legend in clubs such as the Galaxy.
 
He also elicited rave responses at the Oppi Koppi music festival in Pretoria where he headlined the comedy stage. Kurt's widest exposure locally was on the nationwide Green's Spicer Campus Cities Comedy Tour 2000 where he garnered a huge following from Potch to Pretoria and RAU to Rhodes .
 
Internationally, he featured on the front cover of the New York Times and in a BBC World Service documentary on SA comedy! Kurt has also appeared on a 5fm Heavyweight Comedy Jam, headlined the CCC's sell-out Cracking Christmas Comedy show at Artscape and their full houses at the Hermanus Whale Festival 2001. Most recently, Kurt topped the bill of the Cape Comedy Collective's celebratory holiday show "FROLIC!" at the Spier Amphitheatre in December.
 
Man of a thousand faces and a hundred silly voices, Kurt is a natural comedian headed for national fame - if you missed him on Barry Hilton's SABC3 show "Funny You Should Say That" in April 2001, on "Comedy Showcase" or on the front cover of the Cape Review magazine ir, look out for him in the increasingly popular "Going Nowhere Slowly" travel show on SABC3.
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