Load Shedding, With Sketches

Stand-up stories and sketches from Johannesburg, by candlelight

Sipho Radebe2 episodes2 min of audio102 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Oct 4, 20260:4940 plays Preview

My Uber Driver Taught Me Trigonometry

Sipho orders a ride home from a gig and the driver is Mr Mokoena, his old maths teacher, who spends the whole trip asking why Sipho never finished the homework from 2009.

S1 · E1Feb 21, 20260:4562 plays Members

Surprise Party, Stage Four

Sipho's friends threw him a surprise party and the power cut hit the moment the lights were meant to come on, so forty people shouted surprise at a dark room containing a very confused dog.

About the show

Load Shedding, With Sketches is a fortnightly stand-up storytelling show from Johannesburg comedian Sipho Radebe. Each episode is one long true story told on stage at a Braamfontein comedy club, cut together with short sketches Sipho writes and records with a rotating cast of three friends. The stories are specific and ridiculous: the time a stage four power cut hit during his own surprise party, the Uber driver who turned out to be his former maths teacher, the family funeral where two different pastors showed up and neither would leave. The sketches pick up a character from the story and run with it for two minutes. Episodes run 30 to 40 minutes and come out every other Friday. It is for people who like their comedy with a plot, a payoff and a sound effect, and for anyone who has ever planned their whole day around a schedule that did not hold.

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