Laughter is Healing with Andy Curtain
“Anybody that can charge money, walk into a room, and make people laugh consistently is doing something very special.”
Summary of Episode:
Jenn speaks to Andy Curtain founder of former Shanghai based Kung Fu Komedy. Having just graduated from law school in Melbourne, Andy decided to leave Australia and move to China to explore the world. He started off finding 9-5 jobs then stumbled upon creating a community with other comedians to share laughter with people living in China. Comedy clubs popped up in major non-Western cities around the world from around 2009. Then in 2010 Andy and his business partners founded the first comedy club in China, Kung Fu Komedy. From the many ups and downs of this journey of building this community Andy shares the many pivotal points that he went through and learned in the process to where he is at today. In short, laughter is healing in the times we live in today!
Having a good base program to go back to when life is difficult, be it looking after your biology, sleeping, eating properly, when you can fall back on good habits like that you will find it easier to get through difficult stuff.
About Andy Curtain:
Andy Curtain, moved to Shanghai in 2009 from Melbourne, and lived an insane 10 years there before moving to Hong Kong.
From 2010 to 2017 China’s opening up to the world hit a peak and Shanghai became the most exciting place to live on earth. Until it all came crashing down.
Andy started China’s local comedy scene, launched several comedy clubs, toured the country performing standup in English and Chinese, worked on the online series Mamahuhu, got squashed by the Cultural Bureau, married a Russian Korean, has two kids, and sort of lived to tell the tale.
