Nik Rabinowitz was raised on the mean, green streets of Constantia, Cape Town, a world of ride-bys, piano lessons, and unrelenting love and financial support from family members. He grew up on a farm, climbing trees and commentating on his own rugby games in at least three of our official languages.

His stage career started in Standard One, when he played Moshe the Mosquito in a school play. “There were eight of us, but Mrs. Goldberg said I really stood out. She said that while the other boys just buzzed around, I really captured the complexity of Moshe”. After that Nik went to a Waldorf School, learning to play the treble recorder, plant veggie gardens, and crochet his own underpants.

Aside from being one of South Africa’s top stand ups, Rabinowitz's claim to fame is that he was born in a stable; one of only two Jewish boys in the last two thousand years to have done so.