Remo’s Italian restaurant is celebrating the Christmas spirit with South African comic Mark Banks performing his show Mark the Herald Angels Sing! there on Saturday 22 December.
This is the second in the Comedy Night at Remo’s series presented by Centrestage, which kicked off last month with an appearance by another veteran comedian in the shape of Joe Parker.
Banks – like Parker – is widely recognised for his notoriously un-PC political satire, zippy one-liners and digs at the rich and famous, where nothing and no one is sacred.
Banks, whose interests range from “writing an A to Z compilation book of the lemurs of Madagascar for visitors to Cape Town” and “training a coelacanth to leap through a hoop of crusty bread rolls”, to “completing a volume of works on Chinchilla Respiratory Tract Infections” in time for Christmas, also has time to “run an organic cocktail cucumber farm just outside Swellendam which is the biggest organic hydroponic cocktail cucumber farm in the southern hemisphere under asbestos and grown without water. It’s grown only on prayer.”
He also does “a lot of missionary work among the un-laughing”.
Mark has appeared regularly on TV as presenter or interviewee, as well as having featured in several adverts, and now believes he has earned the title of ‘Grand Dowager uncle of the South African comedy underground”.
The show starts at 7.30pm and the popular eatery’s Italian menu will also be available on the evening.
Tickets are R150 (R130 each for eight or more), on sale at Computicket. Further information from Wendy, 082-661-6921.