25 Facts About Riaad Moosa

Riaad Moosa is a South African comedian, actor and doctor.

Riaad Moosa's sister is a doctor, his Indian-born father is an orthopaedic surgeon, his Cape Town-born Malay mother is a GP.

Riaad Moosa spent three years training in magic and became a silver medallion graduate of the College of Magic in Cape Town.

Riaad Moosa started his comedy career as a comedy magician and he was presented with the Comedy Magic award at the Center for the Magical Arts in Cape Town.

Riaad Moosa then spent six years training in medicine at University of Cape Town Medical School and did his internship in hospitals near Thokoza in Gauteng, at Groote Schuur and Khayelitsha in Cape Town.

Riaad Moosa then worked for three years as a doctor.

Riaad Moosa started doing stand-up on campus during his fourth year at University of Cape Town.

Riaad Moosa started performing stand-up at the Cape Comedy Collective's free Comedy Lab workshops, and just two months later, he was the winner of the "One City, Many Comics Talent Competition" held as part of the One City Festival in September 1999.

Riaad Moosa has starred in the Alex Jay 5FM Comedy Jams and Real Concert's Winston King Size Comedy Show, headlining the Sprite Soul Comedy Jams in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.

In 2006, Riaad Moosa appeared in the Heavyweight Comedy Jam in London.

Riaad Moosa was featured at corporate events and media engagements.

In 2007, Riaad Moosa toured South Africa with the American Muslim comedy troupe, Allah Made Me Funny, doing the Make Love Not War show.

In 2008, Riaad Moosa appeared alongside Marc Lottering and Nik Rabinowitz, in the variety comedy show 3 Wise Men, directed by David Kramer.

Riaad Moosa featured in the Anant Singh and John Vlismas produced comedy-collective feature film Outrageous, which played at cinemas nationwide in 2009, and was released on DVD in April 2010.

In February 2010, Riaad Moosa was one of the headline acts along with other South African comedians.

Riaad Moosa supported Eddie Izzard for the 46664 It's No Joke concert.

Riaad Moosa took part in South African national comedy tour, Just Funny Festival, where he hosted Azhar Usman, Mo Amer and Preacher Moss.

In January and February 2013, Riaad Moosa performed at the Baxter Theatre with a show called What's Next.

Riaad Moosa has appeared in various TV and film productions.

In 2005, Riaad Moosa appeared in Crazy Monkey Straight Outta Benoni.

In 2012, Riaad Moosa starred in the comedy film Material, playing a young man who wants to be a comedian but his father disapproves.

In October 2012, he went to the Busan International Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea where Material was shown, In November 2012, Riaad Moosa visited London, England to promote the film at the BFI London Film Festival.

Riaad Moosa uses comedy to tackle sensitive issues like Islamic stereotypes, Islamophobia, racism and prolapsed hemorrhoids.

In March 2011, Riaad Moosa was awarded the Comics Choice Award at the first annual South African Comic's Choice Awards.

Riaad Moosa won best actor at The South African Film and Television Awards in 2013 for his role in Material which won best picture.