We’ve been booking Daliso Chaponda for almost a decade now but you’ll recognise him from placing 3rd in Britain’s Got Talent in 2017 and he’s gone on to amass over 100 million YouTube views, write and star in his critically acclaimed Radio 4 show Citizen of Nowhere, and appear on QI, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, News Quiz and The Now Show.
Not many comedians are a raving success in every continent across the globe but Daliso has breezed to success just about everywhere. Beginning his comedy career in Canada at the prestigious The Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, subsequent appearances including CBC Television’s ‘Trans Canada Comedy Trail’ confirmed his position as Africa’s top comic.
He also received a golden buzzer from Amanda Holden in the 11th series of Britains Got Talent. She later added “He’s self-deprecating, funny, relevant – laugh after laugh after laugh. It just kept coming. And I really want him to win the entire series. I think he could”.
The 38-year-old comedian from Malawi and won over millions of fans with his cutting remarks about living as an African in Britain.
Daliso shot to fame on Britain’s Got Talent
Since then, has gone on to great success, with his new BBC Radio 4 show Daliso Chaponda: Citizen of Nowhere and this year began his first world tour but we’ve still managed to book him for you and so come and laugh like a drain at one of the globe funniest acts.
“Absolutely took the roof off” The Guardian
“I laughed so much I thought I’d pass out!” The List