Riaad Moosa
| Riaad Moosa | |
|---|---|
| Born |
18 June 1977 Cape Town |
| Medium | Stand-up, Television, Film |
| Nationality | South African |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, Satire, Impressions |
| Subject(s) | Islamic humour, Indian culture, Racism, Political humour, Medical |
| Spouse | Farzanah Bemat (m. 2003) |
| Website | www |
Riaad Moosa (Urdu: رياض موسی; born 18 June 1977) is a South African comedian, actor and doctor of Indian-Malay descent.
Moosa grew up in Grassy Park, Cape Town and has two siblings. He attended South Peninsula High School until 1994. His sister is a doctor, his Indian-born father is an orthopaedic surgeon, his Cape Town-born Malay mother is a GP. Since he was a child, he has wanted to do medicine.
Moosa spent three years training in magic and became a silver medallion graduate of the College of Magic in Cape Town. He started his comedy career as a comedy magician and he was presented with the Comedy Magic award at the Centre for the Magical Arts in Cape Town. His future in magic was terminated when somebody doing flash photography illuminated the wire across the stage where his magic orb was floating.
Moosa then spent six years training in medicine at University of Cape Town Medical School and did his internship in hospitals near Thokoza in Gauteng, at Groote Schuur and Khayelitsha in Cape Town. In 2001, he graduated from UCT Medical School. He is a qualified medical doctor and GP. He then worked for three years as a doctor.
Moosa started doing stand-up on campus during his fourth year at University of Cape Town. He started performing stand-up at the Cape Comedy Collective's free Comedy Lab workshops, and just two months later, he was the winner of the "One City, Many Comics Talent Competition" held as part of the One City Festival in September 1999. He became a regular headliner on the comedy circuit during his first year, where he was also invited to perform on Pieter-Dirk Uys's Evita Live and Dangerous e.tv comedy show. In 2000, he came to prominence on the comedy-club circuit in Cape Town.
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