Kung Fu Komedy

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Bjorn Dahlman’s a Swedish clown who tours around the world performing for orphans with a charity called Clowns Without Borders. He’s taken his comedy to some of the darkest places in India and is cracking the ice on reaching impoverished children in China, bringing smiles to kids who live in truly unfortunate circumstances. It’s a […]

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Paul Ogata’s a Hawaiian comedian based out of LA. He’s been all over Comedy Central and Showtime, and gigs more extensively and more often in Asia than any comic on the planet. We had a chat about his journey into show business moving from his hometown to LA, and about the face plants that come […]

Laurent Dupont is a French comedian who moved to China in 2001, with no Chinese and not enough English. He founded a fashion company designing and creating outfits for the city’s 5-star hotels. And in his spare time he’s one of Shanghai’s favorite stand-up comedians. Today’s track is Paris by Friendly Fires (Aeroplane remix). Thanks […]

Jesse Appell’s an American comedian living in Beijing who did a Fulbright scholarship on comedy in China. Jesse initially gained notoriety making the popular parody video Laowai Style and currently produces the web series The Great LOL of China. He’s a workhorse of comedy performing in English and Chinese, stand up and improv and he’s even […]

Grant Horsfield is the founder of naked Retreats, an eco-friendly luxury resort on Moganshan which has put that hill on the map. The path up the mountain was a bumpy one involving loads of baijiu and even a night in a haunted house. These days the ambitious South African is there restoring an old castle […]

Heidi Woehrle is a German-American jazz singer based in Shanghai, whose voice takes her all around the country. She came to the Middle Kingdom from New Orleans and her stories on the road here are epic. Including the time she was trapped in a bubble wearing a ball gown, trying to sing. Shout out to […]

Matt Davis is top US headlining comedian who achieved fame for an online video voted Top 10 Best Heckler Take Down of All Time. Matt came to China this week to launch his World In Jest global comedy tour. He’s embarking on a year long journey around the world which will culminate in a show […]

Sam moved to Shanghai from Africa with dreams of being an international soccer star. He ran into visa problems and, unable to leave the country, started dealing cocaine. Today’s track is Paris is Burning remixed by Cut Copy. Thanks for listening

Ian Walker was a top level English Premier League soccer player in the late 90s and early 2000s. He was a ferocious goalkeeper playing for Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City and the Bolton Wanderers, and was capped for the English national team four times in his career. Ian lives in Shanghai, working as the goalkeeping coach for Shanghai SIPB. And if […]

Steve Mackay was at the heart of the action when US rock took off in the 70s and 80s. He played in the Stooges and the Violent Femmes, two iconic rock bands from that era. He was a close friend of Stooges frontman Iggy Pop, a rockstar known for outrageous antics such as rolling around in broken glass, exposing […]

Howie Lee is at the forefront of an electronic music scene taking China by storm. He’s one of a very small clique of Chinese producers who tour around the world to places like the US, the UK and Brazil, and his Do Hits music label just celebrated its 4th year anniversary in Shanghai. Today’s co-host […]

Mohammed Magdi’s an Egyptian stand-up comic living in Shanghai. In 2012 he was living in Cairo and things started to get messy. A chain of events forced him to leave and he wound up teaching English to Chinese students in the city of Changchun, Jilin province. This is a story about an old city and arguably the […]

Quinn Dahle’s a US comic and arguably one of the best short-form joke writers of his generation. Today he talked about the time he was on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and completely snubbed Patton Oswalt on national TV, the journey of finding his comedic voice, and a gig that involved whisky, a milk crate, a karaoke box, a Santa […]

Mark is the CEO and founder of Sherpa’s Food Delivery, a service which famously sustains the sanity of expats in Shanghai, Beijing and Suzhou. He shared some juicy stories about his sexy ads, expats attacking couriers, hitting on call center girls and the weird dealings that come with growing a business in China. A fantastic […]

In 2011, Mark became the first person to run stand-up comedy shows in Mandarin. His group 笑道文化 (Xiaodao Wenhua, or Lauphilos) put the pieces in place for a scene which is growing rapidly in cities across China. Today, stand-up is on television, there was a big festival in Beijing, and as an art form at […]

Andrea’s a professional circus performer in Shanghai living a secret double life as a lecturer at NYU Shanghai. She’s also an improv and stand up comedian. Andy caught up with her for a coffee between lying on a bed of nails, sleeping on a bed of books and bringing the pain on the KFK stage, […]

Tom just finished up a three city tour with KFK. In between shows Andy sat down with the comedy legend to talk about his search for heroes and the setbacks he’s overcome.

Steve Simeone is one of the funniest funnest comics kicking around these days. Andy was lucky enough to sit down with him during his tour of China and hear a bit about his journey. Today’s track is It Is What It Is by Blood Orange.