Conrad Koch News

The College of Magic's new show, UNBELIEVABLE, comes to Artscape for four shows only on 8 and 9 June. 

Back with a bang! The Johannesburg International Comedy Festival (JICF) returns with yet another mouth-watering feast of comedy taking place over six hilariously jam-packed days. Having just showcased its mini festival brand, COVID RELIEF in October last year, this year's JICF festival promises to be one of the most exciting celebrations of comedy on the continent for 2022!

Conrad Koch is South Africa's hilarious double Emmy nominated ventriloquist and his comedy accomplice, Chester Missing, is South Africa's most famous puppet… outside of parliament. Their shows have been seen on Comedy Central, etv, eNCA, SABC, Canada's Comedy Network, and more.

He's been conjuring sold-out comedy shows and dazzling television show audiences around the country for decades - now, Stuart Taylor, renowned South African entertainer, will be creating wondrous feats of a different kind as a newly elected board member of the world-famous College of Magic in Cape Town.

Cape Town's only magical arts organisation, the College of Magic, will celebrate its 40th anniversary of sharing wonder with the world with its very first online fundraising show, Stars of Magic, on Saturday 27 June 2020 at 8pm!

Chester Missing is South Africa's most famous puppet, and Conrad Koch, is his double International EMMY ventriloquist with a Master's Degree in anthropology. Chester's even gone to court fighting racism. True story.

It's official! The much-anticipated Johannesburg International Comedy Festival (JICF) returns with another mouth-watering feast of comedy over four hilariously jam-packed days, promising to be one of the biggest celebrations of funny on the continent for 2020!

Magic is good for you ... just ask the more than 36 young learners who began their spellbinding studies at the College of Magic, Cape Town's only magical arts organisation, in Claremont on Saturday 1 February 2020.

It's official! Top South African ventriloquist and award-winning performer Conrad Koch is back to showcase his latest show offering at The Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, this April.

Having played a short April run at Cape Town's most intimate and friendly fringe theatre, the Alexander Upstairs, THE BOOK DETECTIVES returns to the central Cape Town venue for two performances prior to a National Arts Festival run at the end of the month.

Ventriloquist Conrad Koch set to let out his inner puppet in his brand new show, PUPPET GUY, at the Baxter Theatre.

Presented by Blu Blood, THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF COMEDY, one of South Africa's leading comedy brands, royally kicks off their dynamic national tour in Cape Town in February 2014.

The penultimate column in BroadwayWorld's South African Theatre Retrospective series takes a look at some of the stand-up comedy, variety shows and storytelling performances that have been produced on stage in 2013.

Should you attend THE CHESTER MISSING ROADSHOW, you will have a good time. Will it challenge you in the way that truly cutting edge social satire should? Probably not, but if you are looking for some pure comic entertainment, then you will receive it in abundance.

With THE CHESTER MISSING ROADSHOW on its way back to Cape Town after a sold out run in Johannesburg, it is time to meet Conrad Koch and his friends. This cutting edge social satire is returning to the Baxter Theatre by popular demand, for a limited season from today, 23 July to 3 August 2013. Meet the cast below!

With THE CHESTER MISSING ROADSHOW on its way back to Cape Town after a sold out run in Johannesburg, it is time to meet Conrad Koch and his friends. This cutting edge social satire is returning to the Baxter Theatre by popular demand, for a limited season from 23 July to 3 August 2013. Meet the cast below!

Chester Missing is the world's first political analyst puppet, on a mission to get South Africans laughing at people with power. After a sold out run in Johannesburg he's bringing his cutting edge social satire, THE CHESTER MISSING ROADSHOW back to Cape Town's Baxter Theatre by popular demand, for a limited season from 23 July to 3 August 2013.