Joe Parker, more than anyone else, has advanced stand-up comedy in South Africa creating opportunity and work for comics starting out, and those at the veteran end of their careers…and everything in between.
Joe’s comedy career kicked off in 1971 in a very different South Africa, and since then beginning he has won a reputation as an outstanding comic, mentor, promoter and pioneering comedy club owner.
This “Lifetime Achiever” and “Best Friend of Comedy” Award winner shares his Life in Comedy story.
