“Die vertooning hou elke orgaan wat met lag te doen het, fiks!”

“Here, he is part stand-up comedian, part motivational speaker and majority superb entertainer”

“Alan is one of the most talented and switched-on funnymen around.
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“Refreshingly original subject matter… Committie plays all the roles in the show to comedic near-perfection. Johan van der Walt is also highly entertaining. This is a very funny show…”

“A well prepared, considered, slick stand-up comedy show, that is , at the same time, ready and willing to go on unexpected tangents…”

“A rollicking evening of therapeutic laughter awaits you…he entertains you with a 90-minute rapid-fire, highly energetic performance…the material is sharp, witty and pertinent…”

“Met die vertoning bewys Committie weer dat he een van die beter akteurs in die solo-komedie-genre is. Die solovertoning het ‘n vinnige pas en Committie se tydsberekening en vermoe om te improviseer maak van dit ‘n genotvolle teaterervaring.”

“Screamingly funny! It will make you shriek, gasp and convulse with laughter. One of the most talented and switched-on funnymen around uses his theatrical background to produce a show that combines a witty script with improvised quips and stand-up. It had me in paroxysms of uncontrollable laughter, tears rolling down my cheek…”

“During the course of the evening you find yourself not merely giggling, oh no. And you’re not chuckling demurely, either. The sounds that are emited from your mouth are more akin to guffaws, gasps and splutters of laughter. For over an hour, Committie has the audience glued to his show… its all utterly daft fun and a mammoth laugh!”

“Ek het nog nooit ‘n vertoning soos Committie s’n teegekom nie. Sy humor is oorsprongklik … en met die afskeid, na staande applous, het die verkeer die teater verlaat…doen jouself ‘n guns en maak ‘n draai by die teater”

“While this is a one-man show, it is far more than stand-up comedy. Committie’s material is not only fresh and funny, it’s also substantial and satisfying. The pace rarely flags for a full 90 minutes. The man is a master of improvisation, as his repeated interactions with the audience show… This is more real than EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND and funnier than FRASIER. I haven’t laughed so much for months…”

“ommittie is a venerable force of nature on the stage. As for the show, I can say there isn’t anything like it. And there isn’t a comedian like Committie either…Committie’s alter ego – the brilliant invention of Johan van der Walt makes an appearance and is worth the price of the admission alone…the jokes come thick and fast…you don’t merely enter a theatre to see Committie, you jump down a rabbit hole..”

“Alan Committie is fast becoming one of our best comedic exports. With Once upon a Laugh, he has surpassed himself. The show is a venerable cocktail of lowbrow and even highbrow excess… his comedic and performance powers are also at their peak here… Committie, to his credit, has resisted the straightforward laughs, and has gone instead for something a lot more complex where the humour has a stinging quality to it. As such, despite it being probably Committie’s funniest and wildest show, it is also his most successful. This is real theatre, replete with girt and texture, not just a barrel of laughs. It is a rare holiday treat: a show that entertains as wildly as it stimulates thought!”

“The clever thing about this new version is that the production has been updated to a degree and is also snugly moulded around the vibrant and distinctive personality of Committie, whose constant engagement with his audience is a joy to watch. Committie is a past master in the art of the one-man show and once more demonstrates his consumate skills in manipulating his audience.”