Carl Joshua Ncube

"The new face of Zimbabwean comedy" CNN African Voices. Carl Joshua Ncube is bringing the spotlight on Zimbabwe and as a result on the growing Zimbabwean stand up comedy scene by his relentless drive and ambition to tell his story to the world!

According to Comedy Central Africa "Carl Joshua Ncube has be the funniest comedian Zimbabwe's ever produced" this after being recently featured on an all star lineup at the Comedy Central's International Comedy Festival BEST OF AFRICA in SOUTH AFRICA where he joined an ensemble cast of some of the best comedians in Africa, the festival also featured comedians like Jeff Ross, Hannibal Buress, and Aries Spear .

Since then been breaking barriers to bring Zimbabwean stand up comedy to the world. Having performed in Australia, USA, America, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Namibia , Ivory Coast and South Africa. Where he has been a part of a number of festivals on the African continent namely Night of a Thousand laughs , Johannesburg International Comedy Festival , Harare International Comedy Festival , Soweto Comedy Festival , Africa Laugh Festival , Presidents of Laughrica , Africa Laughs and Stand up Africa. In 2016 and 2017 he toured South East Asia performing in Malaysia , Indonesia , Singapore ,Thailand , India and Myanmar where he got raving reviews on his performance.

In 2017 was nominated for the Savanna Pan African Comedian of the Year and became a Ted Global 2017 fellow where he spoke on the difficulties and challenges of doing Standup comedy in Zimbabwe.