The New Year International Comedy Show
The Arts Hour brings you a festive celebration of the best comedy talent from around the world in a special programme recorded in the BBC Radio Theatre.
The Arts Hour brings you a festive celebration of the best comedy talent from around the world in a special programme recorded in the BBC Radio Theatre.
Malawian stand-up Daliso Chaponda hosts the star studded line up which features the BBC’s best comedy new comer, American Janine Harouni; the first woman to have a Netflix European comedy special, German Iranian Enissa Amani; Malaysian Nigel Ng, the host of comedy podcast Rice to Meet You; Australian rising star Brodi Snook; the host of the BBC podcast But where are you really from? Eshaan Akbar and the hilarious British Kenyan stand-up, citizen of the world Masud Milas.
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Daliso Chaponda: When a compliment isn't a compliment
Duration: 01:07
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- Sat 28 Dec 201920:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Tue 31 Dec 201909:06GMTBBC World Service
- New Year's Day 202000:06GMTBBC World Service
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