Riaad Moosa Biography
Riaad Moosa is an Indian-born South African comedian, actor, and doctor of Indian-Malay descent. He is best known as the “Comedy Doctor”, for being a qualified medical doctor who attained his degree from the University of Cape Town.
He received the “Comics Choice Award” at the First Annual South African Comic’s Choice Awards. Riaad also featured on a number of television and film productions such as “Laugh Out Loud” and the feature film “Outrageous”. Riaad is also a regular presenter on his very own segment of the “Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola” television series, called “The Second Opinion”.
Riaad Moosa Education
Riaad went to South Peninsula High School until 1994. He spent three years training in magic and became a silver medallion graduate of the College of Magic in Cape Town. Riaad began his comedy career as a comedy magician. He was presented with the Comedy Magic award at the Center for the Magical Arts in Cape Town. His career has magician was terminated when somebody doing flash photography illuminated the wire across the stage where his magic orb was floating.
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Riaad spent six years training in medicine at University of Cape Town Medical School and did his internship in hospitals near Thokoza in Gauteng, at Groote Schuur and Khayelitsha in Cape Town. He graduated from UCT Medical School in 2001. Riaad is a qualified medical doctor and GP. He then worked for three years as a doctor.
Riaad Moosa Age | Birthday
Riaad was born on 18 June 1977 in India. He celebrates his birthday on 18th June every year.
Riaad Moosa Family
Parents
His Indian-born father is an orthopedic surgeon, his Cape Town-born Malay mother is a GP. Since he was a child, he wanted to do medicine.
Siblings
Riaad grew up in Grassy Park and has three siblings. He has a sister who is a doctor,
Riaad Moosa Wife
Riaad married businesswoman Farzanah Bemat on 12 January 2003, who is training to be a homeopath.
Children
The couple resides in Johannesburg, Gauteng with their two children, Zameer born in 2007 and Hanaa born in 2009.
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Riaad Moosa Net Worth
Riaad Moosa, has an estimated net worth of $100, 000 to $1 million which he has earned through his successful career as an actor, doctor, and comedian.
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Riaad began doing stand-up on campus during his fourth year at University of Cape Town. He began performing stand-up at the Cape Comedy Collective’s free Comedy Lab workshops. Two months later Riaad was the winner of the “One City, Many Comics Talent Competition” held as part of the One City Festival in September 1999. Riaad became a regular headliner on the comedy circuit during his first year. He was also invited to perform on Pieter-Dirk Uys’s Evita Live and Dangerous e.tv comedy show. He rose to fame on the comedy-club circuit in Cape Town in 2000.
Riaad has starred in the Alex Jay 5FM Comedy Jams and Real Concert’s Winston King Size Comedy Show, headlining the Sprite Soul Comedy Jams in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. In 2001, he supported Marc Curry of Hanging with Mr. Cooper fame at the Durban Playhouse. In 2002, he supported Russell Peters in his show Made in India at the Luxurama theatre. In 2003, he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, headlining in the Cape Comedy Collective – The new South Africa Stands Up production.
His previous sold-out one-man shows include Strictly Halaal and Riaad Moosa For The Baracka, and Three Wise Men and Three Wiser Men, the hit comedy shows created by David Kramer.
Riaad had a schedule of sold-out one-man show runs like Strictly Halaal and Riaad Moosa For The Baracka in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town during its first run from September 2006 to March 2007. Both shows prompted extended runs until May 2007, and were also released on DVD. He also appeared in the Heavyweight Comedy Jam in London in 2006 . Raad was also featured at corporate events and media engagements.
He toured South Africa with the American Muslim comedy troupe, Allah Made Me Funny, doing the Make Love Not War show in 2007. South African Muslim comedian Halal Bilal performed with them on this, his first big tour since he began performing with Riaad a month before.
Riaad appeared alongside Marc Lottering and Nik Rabinowitz in 2008, variety comedy show 3 Wise Men, directed by David Kramer.
Riaad’s stand-up comedy was included in the DVD for the Blacks Only comedy shows, along with other local comedians. He appeared in the Anant Singh and John Vlismas produced comedy-collective feature film Outrageous, which played at cinemas nationwide in 2009, and was released on DVD in April 2010.
Riaad was one of the headline acts along with other South African comedians including Trevor Noah, David Kau, John Vlismas, Tumi Morake, and Marc Lottering in February 2010. Riaad also supported Eddie Izzard for the 46664 It’s No Joke concert.
He performed Keeping You in a Stitches comedy show at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in November 2012. He started his Doctor’s Orders tour in South Africa in October 2013.
Riaad participated in the South African national comedy tour, Just Funny Festival, where he hosted Azhar Usman, Mo Amer and Preacher Moss (Allah Made Me Funny).
Riaad performed at the Baxter Theatre in January and February 2013 with a show called What’s Next. Later in the year, he continued with his “Doctor’s Orders Tour” throughout South Africa, Africa, and the United Kingdom.
Is Riaad Moosa A Doctor
Riaad is a qualified medical doctor and GP. He spent six years training in medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School and did his internship in hospitals near Thokoza in Gauteng, at Groote Schuur and Khayelitsha in Cape Town. He graduated from UCT Medical School in 2001 and then worked for three years as a doctor.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Riaad Moosa
Who is Riaad Moosa?
Riaad Moosa is one of South African best-known and loved comedian, actor, and doctor
How old is Riaad Moosa?
Riaad Moosa is 42 years old as of 2019. He was born in 1977
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Is Riaad Moosa married?
Riaad Moosa is married to his lovely wife Farzanah Bemat.
How much is Riaad Moosaworth?
He has an estimated net worth of $100, 000 to $5 million
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Where does Riaad Moosa live?
Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Riaad Moosa is still alive and in good health.