 Best
Known as “the guy from Going Nowhere Slowly” Stuart
Taylor was the reigning S.A. National Comedy Magic Champion,
a title that he held for 3 years. Suave sophisticated Stellenbosch
graduate, Stuart started doing comedy to ensure that people
"laugh at my jokes and be mystified by my magic - and not
the other way around!"
He has been performing stand-up comedy since 1999 and is an
expert MC and veteran of the many and varied venues on the Cape
Town and Johannesburg comedy circuit. From Blouberg
to Boxberg, via Sandton’s
Blues Room and the Grand West Casino,
Stuart has entertained them all. 
He performed nationwide on the Green's Spicer Campus Cities
Comedy Tour 2000, at Oppi Koppi in Pretoria
and Worcester and at the Up The Creek and Granaat
Music Festivals, as well as the East Coast Radio Ha,
Ha Comedy Festival in Durban. He also headlined the
holiday show "Frolic" at the Spier
Amphitheatre in December 2001.
Stuart then debuted his solo comedy/magic theatre show
at Artscape as part of the Cape Town Festival in March 2002
and then went on to do a sold-out 3 week run of his next one
man show “Joker in the pack” at
on Broadway where he performed to critical
acclaim – “Classy style, laid back super professional
presentation” - Cape times life styles “…great
observations from a new perspective” - Cape Argus.
The popularity of the show allowed it to be rerun at Grand West
Casino’s Roxy revue bar for a further 3 weeks. 2004 saw
the debut of his much anticipated 3rd solo offering “Dating
for Dummies” which was sold out for 5 weeks and
once again blew away all who attended as well as the press:
“Skreeu Snaaks!” – Die Burger, “Entertainment
with a capital E” – Cape Argus.
This show also enjoyed a successful run at the Grahamstown Festival in 2004.
Stuart also went on to become the full time host of SABC’s cult hit show “Going Nowhere
Slowly”.
Other television credits include “Evita Live and Dangerous”, Barry Hilton’s “Funny You Should Say That”, “Top Billing”, “The Phat Joe Show”, “Heita”, SABC 3’s
“Comedy Showcase” and “Laugh
Out Loud”, South Africa’s biggest ever
comedy event.
He is the South African comedy link for the Lion Red Sports
Café, a New Zealand sports show hosted by ex-All Blacks
Rick Selitso and Mark Ellis on SKY television.
Stuart has also had a regular comedy feature on the P4 104.9 and Good Hope FM Breakfast Shows.
International credits include performing at the Pleasance
Dome, at the Edinburgh fringe festival 2003 and the Berlin
International Comedy Festival 2004.
Contact Stuart Taylor at info@stuarttaylor.co.za
for more information. |
