LaughterLaughs@ the Aftermath ft Vivek Mahbubani, Isabella Charlton, &more!

Hong Kong's top comics return to their favourite venue! Sick lineup at a cool bar, what better way to start your weekend!

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Vivek Mahbubani is a Hong Kong-bred bilingual stand-up comedian performing in both Cantonese and English. Having been crowned the Funniest Person (in Chinese) in Hong Kong in 2007 followed by his victory in the English category at the Hong Kong International Comedy Competition in 2008, Vivek has had the opportunity to take his sense of humor all over the world including Hong Kong, China, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, Canada and USA.

In 2014, the World Famous Laugh Factory in USA ranked Vivek as one of the top 10 comedians in their Annual Funniest Person in the World Competition.

In 2015, he was handpicked as one of the comedians to represent Asia’s best in Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s inaugural “Comedy Zone Asia” shows.

In 2016, he was featured in Comedy Central’s first ever “Stand up Asia!” shows. One of Vivek’s passions is reading and his favorite book is Sun Tzu’s Art of War. Oddly, his favorite color is hot pink.

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Isabella Charlton has performed Stand Up Comedy in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and Berlin. She has performed in Hollywood at The Comedy Store, The Improv, and The Laugh Factory. As a stand up comic she was chosen to be in Hollywood Laugh Factory Fresh Faces in 2018 & 2019. She also performed at the Pasadena Ice House and Westside Comedy Theatre.

Isabella has travelled all over the US performing at comedy festivals. She performed at Trial by Laughter in Indianapolis, and at the She-Devil Festival in New York. The next year, she performed at Big Sky Comedy Festival in Montana and the Seattle International Comedy Festival. Isabella also performed at the Boston Women in Comedy Festival and the Laughing Skull Festival in Atlanta.

Isabella has competed in the Comedy Store’s roast battle, which can be heard on the Roast battle podcast. And can be seen multiple times on the Kill Tony Podcast live from the Comedy Store.

Isabella spent most of the pandemic, performing in her home city of Hong Kong. Where she performed regularly at the long running Take Out Comedy Show. Isabella also spent time in the North East of England, where her mother is from, performing at the Stand Comedy Club, in Newcastle.

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Ryan Hynek is a Chicago native who’s been yucking it up on the Asia Comedy circuit since 2007. Knowing that comedy won’t pay the rent in his 300 foot ‘deluxe’ apartment in the sky, Ryan works full-time as a secondary school English teacher. He’s the first to admit that he uses his students as guinea pigs for his brand of observational humor and finds success in their puzzled looks. He’s a top three finalist in the Hong Kong International Comedy Festival and has played clubs around the world from Chicago to Hanoi. You can find Ryan poking around the comedy clubs in HK most weekends.

"One of my favorite comedians to watch live. Guaranteed to get people to stay at your cruise ship bar 30 minutes longer." - Turner Sparks

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Muk is born and raised in Hong Kong, and is well travelled living in 6 different countries.

He is highly educated, holding 3 university degrees and is somehow managing to use absolutely none of them as he is now a personal trainer and stand up comedian.

His comedy style is based on true life experiences, true stories where every time something good happens, misfortune prevails in extremely strange ways.