- Good, thank y'all.
How's everybody?
I appreciate it.
Well welcome to Family Feud, South Africa, everybody.
I'm your man, Steve Harvey.
(cheering, clapping)
Well we got a special show for you tonight
with some of South Africa's top comedians
in the studio tonight, playing for their favorite charity.
(cheering, clapping)
Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
These my people right here.
Well, let's get it on and meet the teams,
everybody from Johannesburg, it's the Magnificents.
(cheering, clapping)
Playing against from the coastal regions,
it's the Lil Ships.
(cheering, clapping)
Well, y'all ready to get the show started,
everybody say yeah.
- [Everybody] Yeah!
Give me Tumi, gimme Kurt.
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Top comedians in South Africa.
Yeah, been waiting on y'all.
Everybody in a good mood today?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Welcome to the show. - Thank you.
- All right we surveyed a hundred people,
we got the top eight answers on the board.
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Name something people write to entertain people.
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- Jokes.
(crowd cheers)
- [Kurt] All right, all right.
- This is what we here for.
What I was born to do.
Huh?
Jokes.
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(cheering, clapping)
Pass or play?
- We gonna play. - All right let's go.
Tumi, how you doing?
- I'm good, how you doin' Steve?
- Good, good, good.
- So how long have you been doing this?
- Woo, 12 years, 12-13 years.
- Y'all can stop saying woo
to how long you've been doing this.
I've been doin' this, woo,
that's a long time,
well, yeah, I've been doin
this longer than some of y'all have been alive, so.
- I've been doing it 15 years.
- Huh? - 15 years.
- 15, that's pretty good.
So where do you work out of, Johannesburg?
Well, It's been tough lately though right?
- Yeah, it's been crazy.
- Because the clubs are closed, COVID.
They shut it down, man.
- It's been awesome to come in the laptops and the camera.
- Laptops, ah, it's depressing.
I'm gonna tell you right now, somebody,
somebody tried to hire me during COVID to do a zoom gig
for a corporate event.
And we want you to be warm Mr. Harvey,
we want you to be motivational, but we want you
to be humorous.
I said, no, I can't do it.
I'm just sitting in front of this laptop trying to tell
jokes with no feedback, that's a death sentence.
Well, let's go, Tumi, introduce your team.
- All right, we have Robby Collins,
I babysat for his mother, she still hasn't fetched him.
This is Robbie Collins.
We have Alfred Adrian, he's actually a bit of a little ship,
but he jumped ship before them.
Welcome, very funny, man.
We have Nicholas, we found him in the passage.
- Stop right there Tumi, stop right there.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is my dude right here.
(cheering, clapping)
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm the greatest intro artist
in the business today.
Ladies and gentlemen, out of Johannesburg,
one of the greatest studio warmup acts ever born
into the history of this business.
(cheering, clapping)
- [Nicholas] Oh, I'm gonna cry.
He has opened for one of the original Kings of Comedy.
He is the co-star of the Family Feud Show.
The warm-up act, give it up for Nicholas.
(cheering, clapping)
- [Tumi] Like I said, I found him in the passage.
Last but not least we have Loyiso, very funny man,
closely associated with our man Mr. Trevor Noah.
(cheering, clapping)
- [Loyiso] It's hard to follow Nick.
- Are you closely associated with Trevor, how so?
- Um,
- Oh, that was just,
- I'm the South Africa correspondent for The Daily Show.
Oh really? Okay, good, good, good, that's good.
I met Trevor one time at a fashion show in Paris.
And he came up to me, he's a good brother.
Funny dude, man, he doing well.
He just signed a big deal, he's making a lot of money.
Oh, oh, that don't worry about that,
that won't affect you at all.
And please don't call him now.
All right, so tell me what charity you guys playing for?
- We're playing for Door of Hope.
And they help homeless kids,
they, they support a lot of the, yeah,
- Okay, good.
Well, all right , let's get it on.
Robby?
- Yes, sir. - How you doing, man?
- I'm very well, thanks.
- Good, how long have you been doing this man?
- Going on my 13th year.
- 13th year?
Okay, good man.
(cheering, clapping)
Got some veterans up here, veterans.
That's good, let's go man.
Name something people write to entertain people.
- Billboards.
(cheering, clapping)
- Billboards.
(buzzer)
- [Alfred] That's okay, we'll recover.
- Alfred, how long you've been doing this bro?
- Nine years.
- Nine, that's good.
Okay, let's play man, name something people write
to entertain people.
- Music.
(cheering, clapping)
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(cheering, clapping)
- [Robby] I think that's a song.
- [Tumi] Not just any music, not just any music.
- Um, really?
He said music.
Music is two syllables, I turn around
and you got a damn paragraph on the board.
Ingoma Emnandi.
- [Loyoso] That's the one, yeah!
(cheering, clapping)
- Okay, what is that?
- Music?
- I don't know either.
It's a song.
- Oh, It's a song.
- [Tumi] No man, it's good music.
- Nicholas,
- Sir.
- After that intro don't, don't make me look bad.
- I got you, I got you.
- C'mon man, let's go,
- I went out there, name something
people write to entertain people.
- Poetry.
- Poetry!
(ding)
(cheering, clapping)
I told you, this is the dude right here, I told you.
- Loyiso.
- Yes, sir.
- Good, my man, how long you been at this?
- Nine years.
- Nine years, started with Alfred.
- Oh yeah? Okay, good.
Thank you man, name something people write
to entertain people.
- A script.
- Script?
- Yeah.
- Good answer.
- Scripts.
(ding)
(cheering, clapping)
- Tumi, only one strike, gimme something people write
to entertain people.
- Stories.
- Give me stories.
(ding)
(cheering, clapping)
- [Alfred] Don't make me jealous.
- Robbie, name something people write to entertain people.
- Umm, I'm going to go with,
(Buzzer)
Ahh!
I didn't know there was a timer.
- Yeah, you didn't know it was a time?
Yeah, just like in our business.
Like this is the deal, man.
I tried it, this is my, this is how I made it, right?
I have a very system.
I'll tell you the entire system,
but here's one.
I learned to treat comedy as a science,
you can pull up any one of my specials and hit the clock.
I produce a house laugh, which is 85% of the room laughs
every 20 to 35 seconds.
- Damn.
- I don't care what's happening.
In 20 seconds 85% of this room gonna laugh.
No more than 35 seconds unless I'm stopping them,
giving them a breath, cause sometimes
I just had let them breathe.
(cheering, clapping)
Sometimes, I just had a little pull itself together,
you know, put their clothes back on, stuff like that.
I wish I had time, really sit down with y'all
and share you with the real science of what this is.
Because a lot of talented people over here, man,
y'all got some real talent, you really do, man.
Alfred we got two strikes, we gotta be careful man.
Lil Ships can steal.
Name something people write to entertain people.
- Plays?
- They write plays.
(cheering, clapping)
(buzzer)
That was a good answer.
A'right Kurt, Lil Ships, give me something.
Name something people write to entertain people.
- Social media, tweets, WhatsApp.
- Tweets, social media.
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(theme music)
Number seven,
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comics.
Six,
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blogs, articles.