Award-winning comedian, presenter, writer, and actor Doctor Riaad Moosa is also a medical doctor!
Riaad launched ‘The Best Medicine’ during the chaotic and stressful COVID-19 pandemic to promote healing through humour, laughing, and other strange and wonderful therapies. This project also inspired his weekly virtual comedy club, ‘The Best Medicine’, which showcases international comedians.
Riaad’s first Netflix special, ‘Why do you talk the Way You Do?’ was released on Netflix’s global event ‘Comedians Of The World’, followed by ‘Life Begins’.
Riaad first showed his humorous and dramatic acting chops in the globally acclaimed film ‘Material’ (co-written by him), which continues to inspire audiences worldwide. Netflix streams content.
In 2013, “Material” won SAFTAs for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor, with Riaad Moosa winning for Best Actor.
The epidemic delayed ‘Material 2’ or ‘New Material’ from October 2020. After its late 2021 release, Riaad will tour the country with the film in 2022.
Riaad played Ahmed Kathrada in Anant Singh’s Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated film Mandela – Long Walk to Freedom.
The live and DVD versions of his one-man performances ‘Strictly Halaal’, ‘For The Baracka’, ‘Doctor’s Orders’, and ‘Life Begins’ were hits. Riaad has appeared in movie and TV shows like “Laugh Out Loud” (SA’s largest standup comedy show). Riaad wrote and performed for SABC 1’s “Pure Monate Show,” a youth cult. He appeared in the 2009 Anant Singh/John Vlismas comedy-collective film Outrageous. Riaad hosted “The Second Opinion – with Dr Riaad Moosa” on E News’ satirical news show “Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola.” Riaad won the first “Comics Choice Award” at the “1st Annual South African Comic’s Choice Awards” in March 2011.
Known as “the Comedy Doctor,” Moosa is one of the country’s most popular and acclaimed funnymen with a style of his own. He seems to have the solution to the nation’s ills: a healthy dose of laughter, straight up—hold the aspirin.
