You might be familiar with Angel from her night-job, which is performing orals on stage.

Take your minds out of gutters, not all girls named Angel work at Mavericks… although, two thumbs up to those who do. This Angel (and yes that really is her real name) fluttered onto our 2oceansvibe radio airwaves straight from the land of stand-up comedy.

The comedienne makes up the more bawdy and untamed part of the hit Friday lunch-show: 2girls1mic. Catch her and Kamini Pather (of food loving and Masterchef SA fame and yumness) weekly from 1-3pm. The yin-yang combination of Kamini’s poise and Angel’s tourettes-like honesty makes for pure listening pleasure.

Given the name Angel at birth, she didn’t have the career luxury of becoming a doctor or lawyer and her options were limited to being a stripper or stand-up comedian. After a few test runs in front of her own mirror she chose comedy as it made the neighbours boo less violently.

Angel was the quintessential ugly duckling, who grew into a duck – and developed a sense of humour to deal with this and the shame of being born in Durban (South Africa’s ginger step-child). She’s lived all over our fair land from Durbs to Plett and Somerset West. She’s even done some hard time in Jozi but after a 4 year Honours degree in Film and Media at UCT she sunk her roots down into the Mother City and calls it home. She also calls it cold, wet, windy or too hot – depending on the season she’s currently stating the obvious in.

Angel is one of very few female https://premier-pharmacy.com/product/xanax/ comedians in the country. Although this makes her wince as it’s not about gender – it’s about funny. Luckily she seems to be on the funny-money (she leaves being on the real-money to Madiba and one day Oprah.) After only 2 years in comedy she’s graced (and we use that word loosely – remember the duck) some of the biggest stages in South Africa. Including three appearances on Comedy Central’s ‘Kings and Queens of Comedy’ an opening performance at the Vodacom Funny Festival 2012  and a comedic talk at TEDx Cape Town 2013. She is fast becoming a festival comedy veteran too, with regular appearances at Rocking the Daisies, Synergy, Rock the River and Up the Creek from 2011- 2013. Then again, if you remember the comedy at festivals, you were too sober – try harder.

Our duckling is growing into an even bigger duck with the launch of her debut one woman show, Yes, Really, Angel at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown this year. It was directed by comedy legend Nik Rabinowitz and produced by the Race Card star (and Angel’s flatmate – can someone say nepotism?) Siv Ngesi. This proved to be a solid combination as reviewers gave her show critical acclaim with reviews like “Nothing short of hilarious”. Keep an eye on Angel as her show is set to play in Cape Town and Joburg in November, don’t be the last people on the band-wagon that accepts hot chicks with weird names as funny.

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