Vittorio Leonardi

Since 1999, Vittorio Leonardi has tried to show audiences a new way to see the world - slightly skewed, quirky & governed by cartoon law. The La Linea /Line Man Cartoon In 2012, his one man show "Vittorio's Secret" received rave reviews at the Grahamstown Arts Festival; in 2014 at The Box in Johannesburg and had two sold out shows in Cape Town at The Alexander Bar Café Theatre. Also in 2012, he was selected to represent the South African Department of Arts & Culture, performing stand-up shows at the 2012 Paralympics in London. Later in 2012, he became one of the first comedians featured on Comedy Central Africa's Comedy Central Presents. Finally, Vittorio was nominated for his comedy writing under the Times Comic Pen Award at the 2012 South African Comic's Choice Awards. In 2014, Vittorio made it to the top 10 in The Laugh Factory's 1st Annual Funniest Person in the World Competition. There, he was invited to represent South Africa, performing against nine other contestants from across the world, at the famous club. Vittorio has also been a resident MC at comedy nights across Gauteng. Tanz Cafe - Bryanston News Cafe - Faerie Glen Parker's Comedy & Jive - Montecasino, Gold Reef City & Silverstar Casino Vittorio has styled himself as a Jack of All Trades in Comedy, working as a stand-up and Improvised comic - since 2003 with the Joe Parker's Improv Express & Chris Forrest's Starship Improvise - a writer and comedy lecturer. He been invited to do several talks on comedy - three times to Toastmasters SA & twice to Mensa. From 2011 - 2014, he gave a lecture on An Introduction to Comedy to the Grade 10 Drama classes of St. Mary's DSG, Pretoria. On the big screen, Vittorio starred in the 2009 hit film District 9, as Michael Bloemstein, an MNU Alien Civil Affairs Officer and as Death in the award winning 48 Hour Film Project Short Film Death's (Man)date. As a writer, in 2008 he was head writer for SABC 3's political satire show "Last Say on Sunday", excerpts of which can be found on YouTube. He was also a writer for Yo-TV's kid's quiz show Let's Get Quizzical, where he created over 450 quiz questions for children ranging from ages 10 - 15 years old. Since January 2011, Vittorio been a co-writer on SABC 1's The Real Goboza, hosted by Phat Joe. It is the top-rated show in its category, with over 2.4 million viewers a week. He has also been a contributing writer on SABC1's sitcom's Thandeka's Diary, Ses Top La and Abo Mzala and E! Entertainment's Beyond the Red Carpet. Since 2015, he has been the co-host of GeekXP's podcast: Release the Geek with Les Allen and has begun his own podcast entitled Urbane Myths - a chronicle of strange occurrences in SA and across the world. For further show info, you can visit his website. For random mental meanderings, you can find him on: Twitter & Facebook: VittorioLeo Snapchat & Instagram: VtheJester