Central Standup Almaty

Podcast: Hop For Pop · Kishan Jhunjhunwala

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

In 2022, when the mobilisation started in Russia, comedians began arriving in Almaty with nowhere to perform. A 28-year-old comic and his wife opened an 800-square-metre room and let them in. Four years later, Almaty Central Stand Up Club is the hub of stand-up comedy in Central Asia. This is a long conversation with its co-founder, Nuraskan, recorded in Almaty, about building a comedy scene almost from scratch, in Kazakh and Russian, languages that reach about 21 million people worldwide and no further. He is remarkably unsentimental about it. Nobody set...