Everything you need to know about Hong Kong. Each Monday local comedian Vivek Mahbubani and Egyptian comic Mohammed Magdi dive into something great about the city.
Episodes
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
China's 11/11 Singles' Day "Shopping Festival" is like Black Friday on steriods. It has consistently been the biggest shopping day in the world for the last few years, online and offline. Originally, the date was celebrated as a cynical response to traditional couple-centric festivals by a small group of college bachelors. However, in 2009 Alibaba's CEO began to use the day as a 24-hour shopping holiday festival that offered online shopping discounts and offline entertainment. The holiday has now become the largest physical retail and online shopping day in the world.
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Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Daniel Fernandes is one of the top Indian standup comedians. He is known for his dark humor and for not shying away from tackling controversial topics. Danny stops by HK to perform a show with Backstage Comedy and we take the opportunity to talk all things comedy and his night out in HK on LKF!
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Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
It's Diwali week and we are in a festive mood. We chat about Diwali, call centers, the mysterious Indian man walking around Soho, Vivek auctioning himself off and the process of bringing touring comedians into HK.
One of Indians' top English comedian Daniel Fernandes is performing live in HK Friday Nov 10 for only one night, grab your tickets for this special night of comedy here: https://t.ly/leZMt
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Comedian Adam Hopkins started out his comedy career in Shanghai, where he was also working as a journalist. We chat to him about what it's like working a journalist in China, the coolest interviews he's done and why he eventually moved to Taiwan.
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Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Mohammed is back from Australia and has a lot to vent about.
Despite Melbourne having the reputation of being one of the most liveable cities in the world, why is nobody working? How is everyone so relaxed and why is the HK public transport system so superior?
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Oct 26 HKAF show tickets: https://t.ly/TXB3e
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Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
On this very special edition of Ho Ho Hong Kong, we have returning guest and co-host of ABC's China Tonight Annie Louey back on the pod!
Mohammed is currently in Australia visiting Annie, doing shows and traveling around. Annie and Mohammed drove from Melbourne to Sydney and back. They catch up on the podcast to chat about about roadkill, good ol' Australian racism and Annie's career taking off.
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Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Hong Kongers love their holiday travels. Favorite destinations list include Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea. Bali, Indonesia? Not so much. Luckily one of our hosts Mohammed has been to Bali multiple times and after his last trip there and his first one since the pandemic, he comes back with a full report. Should you visit Bali?
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Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
We had a busy week performing standup comedy om Friday at Basehall, Jardine House then on Saturday at Better With Beer Festival on the Central Harbourfront. Also, last week Clockenflap announced the lineup for this December's edition. We get into it all then we get to our guest Ben Volchok. Ben is an award-winning comedy writer and performer from Melbourne.
We catch up with Ben while while he was in HK performing his award-winning show "The Final Hours Hour" at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Center.
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Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Jinx Yeo is one of the top standup comedians out of Singapore. He was nominated "Best Comedy" at the Fringe World Awards 2018. We chat to him about HK vs. Singapore, white people being offended on behalf of minorities and his weirdest gig ever performing for the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
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Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Only a few days after typhoon Saola ravaged through Hong Kong, claiming some trees and forcing expats to cancel their dinner reservations which caused them big distress, we get hit with the longest black rainstorm alert ever recorded in Hong Kong, causing yet more expats to cancel their junk boat parties, which made them really upset. How is Hong Kong so unprepared for the heavy rainfall?
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