The Cape Town Comedy Club is the mothercity’s only dedicated comedy club. Owned by comedian, Kurt Schoonraad, it initially started as a pop up comedy club forming part of the Cape Town Festival in 2005, and found a permanent home in the Pumphouse at the V&A Waterfront in 2013. It is also a dinner venue, with patrons sharing tables.

Regular performers at the Cape Town Comedy Club include Stuart Taylor, Riaad Moosa, Nik Rabinowitz, Martin Evans, Tracy Klass, Mel Jones,  Dalin Oliver, Martin Davis, Westley Cockrell, Marc Lottering, Conrad Koch / Chester Missing, Carl Weber and Rob van Vuuren. International comedians also headline on a regular basis.