Cosmic Comedy producers taking over Kookaburra Comedy Club
The two comedians and producers were just looking for an alternate location for the occasional show when but ended up with an entire club with a big history.
Berlin – Dharmandar Singh and Neil Numb were just looking for a second venue for their popular Cosmic Comedy standup shows. Their usual location in the basement of Belushi’s bar across from the Volksbühne would sometimes become unavailable at short notice, and they hated canceling shows.
The pair immediately thought of Comedy Club Kookaburra just up the road on Schönhauser Allee in Prenzlauer Berg. The club has been a staple of Germany’s comedy scene for nearly 20 years and has played a large role in the success of American-style standup comedy in the capital city.
So they began talking to owners Svenja and Sanjay Shihora during the Berlin New Standup Awards show, which recognizes the best new English-language comedians, in September and discovered the Shihoras were considering selling. The Shihoras’ health currently makes it difficult to run a comedy club and corona has made a normally tough business impossible. Numb and Singh had toyed with the idea of opening their own club for years but had never found the right venue.
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