Trippin With Skhumba
Made in South Africa
Buckle up for Trippin With Skhumba, featuring 7 comedians, 1 caracara and a truckload of LOLs. A Showmax Original reality series.
Meet the comedians
Mashabela Galane
2016 Native Tongue award winner Mashabela Galane is very proud of his origins in Moletjie, Limpopo. Take a tour with him as he shows Skhumba around.
Siya Seya
Siya Seya moved from the Eastern Cape to Jozi with a few bucks in his pocket and a dream. He’s dazzling on stage – see where it all started.
Schalk Bezuidenhout
With his signature moustache and short shorts, it’s no surprise that Schalk Bezuidenhout hails from the metropolis of Kempton Park.
Celeste Ntuli
Actress Celeste Ntuli is native to Empangeni in KZN. Check out the hometown of this famously single, famously funny woman.
Tumi Morake
One of SA’s best-known comedians, Tumi Morake takes us on a trip to Bloem. She’s never afraid to speak her mind
Salesman wa Motokwa
Salesman wa Motokwa, also known as Botsisa, is from Ga-Rankuwa, near Pretoria. No topics are off limits – even his own stint in a wheelchair after an accident.
Skhumba Hlope
He is going on the road, hanging out with SA’s top comedians, visiting their hometowns and checking out the comedy scene.
Find out more about Trippin' With Skhumba
5 things we found out about Tumi Morake in Trippin With Skhumba
In this week’s episode of the Showmax Original, Trippin With Skhumba, Tumi Morake takes Skhumba to the province she was born in, the Free State, where her father’s family lives in Bloemfontein and her mother’s in Thaba ‘Nchu.
7 things to know about Salesman, this week’s star in Trippin With Skhumba
Salesman takes us on a journey to his childhood home in Mabopane township outside Pretoria – as well as the tavern that gave him his break, the stage he was sjambokked on, the stokvel he still gives money to, and the freeway he nearly died on…
PICS: The Trippin With Skhumba live show
The audience of the sold-out live stand-up show got the chance to see seven of SA’s top comedians with their up-and-coming counterparts on one stage on Saturday, 23 March.
5 things you probably didn’t know about Celeste Ntuli
In the fourth episode of the Showmax Original Trippin With Skhumba, the 2018 DStv Viewers’ Choice Award: Favourite Comedian winner visits Celeste Ntuli where she grew up: eMabuyeni in KwaZulu-Natal.
Get your tickets for the Trippin With Skhumba live stand-up show
See 7 of SA’s funniest comedians all on one stage, courtesy of the comedy-reality Showmax Original.
5 things to know about Schalk Bezuidenhout
The star of the third episode of the Showmax comedy-reality Original, Trippin With Skhumba, takes us back to his childhood home in Kempton Park. New episodes arrive every Thursday.
5 things to know about Xhosa comedian Siya Seya
In the second episode of the Showmax Original Trippin With Skhumba, the comedian drives over 1 000 kilometres from Jozi in his CaraCara to visit Siya Seya in the Xhosa comedian’s hometown of Port Elizabeth.
6 things to know about Mashabela Galane
In the first episode of the new Showmax Original, Skhumba joins Mashabela on a road trip to his hometown: Moletjie village in Limpopo.
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