Casper de Vries is back with Alive en Vrolik
De Vries’s shows are not for the faint-hearted or easily-offended
Casper De Vries is set to take Carnival City by storm when he returns with a bang on February 17 and 18.
“We are thrilled to host one of South Africa’s biggest names in Afrikaans, and now also English, comedy in 2017. It is true that dynamite comes in small packages,” says Michelle Smith, marketing manager at Carnival City.
Although De Vries announced his retirement from doing one-man stand-up comedy in an exclusive interview with Channel 24 in 2013, he has made a really strong comeback and is set to have fans watching in disbelief as he spurts a whole lot of hilarious controversy in his latest routine, Alive en Vrolik.
“More theatrical and intimate than before,” is how De Vries has described this show.
“This time I’ll be performing in my living room,” says Casper who associates the comfort of being on stage with being in his living room. “I can walk up and down because I can, and it feels like home.”
Although he initially catered only for the Afrikaans market in South Africa and also gained a significant following of Afrikaners living abroad, he has recently acquired an abundance of English followers as well. This has come about as a result of his most recent work on Comedy Central Africa and Cliff Central.
De Vries’s shows are not for the faint-hearted or easily-offended. The use of unabashed language and very bold views on topics such as humanity, religion, social norms, language and politics make this a show only for those over the age of 16.
Tickets are available at Computicket.
