NAT KANG is one of Southeast Asia’s only comedians specialising in musical and also dark comedy. With a sense of humour often described as mixing the musical, the morbid, and moronic, he was one of Malaysia’s most booked live comedy show hosts during the pandemic.

Since 2016, he has worked with nearly all of Malaysia’s major comedy headliners (Douglas Lim, Joanne Kam, Harith Iskander, Rizal van Geyzel, etc), and also various international stars such as Stephen K. Amos (ENG), Glenn Wool (CAN), Papa CJ (IND), Liz Miele (USA), Nigel Ng aka Uncle Roger (ENG/MAL), and even Tinky Winky the Teletubby.

2022 saw his international performing debut with a Southeast Asian tour, and since 2023 he has debuted his first four solo comedy hours, inclusive shows both in Malaysia as well as regionally (AirBender and AberrAsian in 2023, followed by Ances3 and Asiana in 2024). He is notable for being the first Malaysian comedian to headline in various Southeast Asian cities, as well as being Malaysia’s first standup comedian as seen on OnlyFans.

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NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

• Voted as best roaster in the second Merry Lion Comedy Club Roast Battle 2019 (Singapore).
• One of the first male headliners for Siao Char Bor Comedy (2019, Singapore), a showcase of female and LGBT performers including comedians, spoken word poets, and drag queens.
• Won the Audience Choice and Festival Director’s Choice awards in the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre Short + Sweet Festival 2021 (Malaysia).
• Performed in the inaugural Laughaton 2021 at the newly-opened Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre (Malaysia).
• Opened/hosted a charity show for disaster relief after the 2021 floods (Malaysia), having to go onstage after footage of a corpse being retrieved from a flooded house was shown.
• Introduced and adapted for local audiences in Malaysia and Vietnam, the internationally acclaimed show format combining comedians with Cards Against Humanity. Also hosted the first Malaysian as well as Vietnamese shows with the adapted format.
• Was the final emcee/host at the Crackhouse Comedy Club (Malaysia) before the venue was shut down by law enforcement, an incident which made international headlines in 2022.
• Was the first Malaysian musical comedian to perform in any kind of headlining role at Comedy Masala (Singapore).
• Among the first Malaysian comedians to perform in Cambodia and Vietnam (2022), and later the first Malaysian comedian to tour an hour through those countries (2023, Cambodia: Phnom Penh & Siem Reap, Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh & Hanoi).
• First runner up and one of five acts not eliminated (total nearly 20 acts) in the Gong Show by Comedy Club Bangkok (2022).
• Has performed in a headlining role at all of Malaysia’s full-time comedy clubs (Crackhouse Comedy Club, The Joke Factory, KL Comedy Club, and Simply Comedy).
• One of only a few Malaysian comedians other than Dr Jason Leong (as seen on Netflix) and Rizal van Geyzel (as seen at the Edinburgh Fringe) to debut multiple solo hours in the same year, for two consecutive years.
• Malaysia’s first standup comedian to have performed multiple solo hour shows without a microphone, in multiple Malaysian cities.
• Malaysia’s first standup comedian as seen on OnlyFans.

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