South African Climate Change Comedy

MARK SAMPSON - AFRICA CLOCKWISE
Is Mark Sampson's Africa Clockwise a stand-up comedy show?
Or a show about taking his family in a giant green 10-ton truck around Africa in a clockwise direction?
Or a show about how the wisdom of Africa can show us the way to cope with climate change?
The answer is all of the above.

Africa Clockwise - The Show
Our ecological clock is ticking, but don't be alarmed. This laughter-packed, renewable-powered off-the-grid ECOmedy will make you feel so much better about the end of the world as we know it...

Mark Sampson is a master of taking unwieldy subjects, and turning them into comedy gold. His previous hit show Missing Links explored 6 million years of evolution, while Feels Funny tackled depression -- both were sell-out successes.

In Africa Clockwise, SA's most adventurous and thought-provoking comedian continues his revolutionary journey in his most demanding quest yet. Come and discover how Sampson plans to challenge his children to cope with climate change around the coast of Africa as well as challenging his audience to 'BEAT THE HEAT' as the anti-consumer host of a crazy global warming gameshow.
And just because he's had a haircut, don't mention Gordon Ramsay.

"Mark Sampson seeks to entertain and educate through his brand new stand-up act. Poking fun at the modern consumerist lifestyle and its impact on global warming, Sampson hilariously explores what it means to 'go green' in this day and age. Extremely funny"
CUE review 2011 Grahamstown National Arts festival.

Africa Clockwise - The Trip
Over the next 2 years, Sampson is going to attempt a Guinness World Record for the longest journey made so far running solely on cooking oil. Travelling in a giant 10 ton truck called the Green Bandwagon, it will also be the first trek to use cooking oil to circumnavigate the African continent.

Sampson is on a mission to discover if Africa can show the world how to combat climate change. With our ecological clock ticking, this modern day Livingstone is setting out to explore more than 30 countries across the continent: one year up the west coast and one down the east including the new North African democracies.
It is also a quest to discover whether it is possible to persuade his kids they can live happily without a TV or even water on tap and investigate whether a future without fossil-fuelled luxuries may not be such a bad thing.

Sampson invites you to jump on his big green bandwagon and come along for the ride. It's groundbreaking, hilarious - and 100 % Eskom-free!

For interviews, please contact Mark Sampson 084 795 9200 or mark@samp.co.za

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• comedy
• stand up
• africa
• south africa
• climate change
• environment
• green
• global warming
• funny energy humor solar
• power
• gas
• electric
• wind
• electricity
• clean
• generator
• alternative