Tshepo mogale biography

Tshepo Mogale – Corporate Comedian started doing stand up comedy in 1999 in Cape Town.
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They dumped their jobs to make people laugh

THEY spend years studying, but once in the working world, these comedians take career detours that has left them laughing all the way to the bank.

These funny men and women make us laugh at our own stupidity and lighten society's ills with their well-crafted jokes.

For these comedians, the change in careers has paid off. They all say that they are much happier making people laugh and are also better off financially .

After working for four years at Investec as a project manager, Tshepo Mogale ditched his job for comedy. He says that although it was not plain sailing at first, things are now working out as he had hoped they would.

"I did what I did because I did not want to have regrets later in my life. The money was good at my previous job. I took home about R15,000 back then. The difference between what I did and comedy is that I had a stable salary," Mogale says.

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This is Tshepo Mogale, a comedian, writer, actor, business man, the kwaito star known as Spykos, and as he puts it, “what ever it is that can lead to me sending an invoice - I’m very willing to get involved in that”. He was born in Durban, South Africa, his dad’s a doctor, mom’s a nurse, they were the fist family in his neighbourhood to get a Mercedes Benz. When he was still very young the family moved to Bloemfontein where he did his primary school years, he was one of only a handful of black kids at a white school. At twelve he moved to Cape Town where he finished his schooling and went on to study a B com at university. In the late 90's he finished with a diploma and then moved to Joburg where he got a job in financial services. Part time in the evenings Tshepo would do stand up comedy which was his hobby and real passion. As Thepo puts it, “most of my friends are either comedians, or investment bankers”.

In 2003 a show that he pitched with other comedian friends was accepted by the SABC, so he bid farewell to the bank and becam

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A Spykos of African Kings of comedy

“I like the concept of having Africans on one stage,” says comedian and organizer of the African Kings and Queens of Comedy show Tshepo ‘Spykos’ Mogale.

The show takes place next week, the day before Heritage Day at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park which will feature some of the biggest names from the continent.

It will be the first the first time the show takes place, which includes established and internationally recognised comics such as Nigeria’s Basketmouth, locals Kagiso Lediga and Tumi Morake, Malawi’s Daliso Chaponda, Uganda’s Pablo Kimuli amongst many others.

“We’d like to do it annually,” says Mogale who reiterates that the line-up is made-up of seasoned comedians who will not struggle to bring out laughs from the audience.

Mogale, who fans will know from the popular satirical television programme The Pure Monate Show, says people still recognise him as Spykos- name of a character he portrayed on the show, pretending to be a Kwaito artist. “People still request the Birthd