Four South African stand-up comedians - Loyiso Gola, Loyiso Madinga, Tumi Morake and Riaad Moosa - included in Netflix's new Global Comedy event series.

Four South African stand-up comedians - Loyiso Gola, Loyiso Madinga, Tumi Morake and Riaad Moosa (pictured) - are included in the global streaming service Netflix's Global Comedy event series, with all episodes of the as-yet-untitled series that will be released at once sometime in 2019.

Netflix will bring together 47 comedians from 13 territories worldwide for the series, with each comedian who will perform a half-hour stand-up special.

Recording will take place in 7 different languages - including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Dutch, German, and English - and will include comedians from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the Middle East.

Some of their stand-up routines will be recorded at the upcoming Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, Canada between 24 and 29 July, with recording that will also take place in Brazil, Mexico, India, Germany and the Netherlands.

"Few things are better than discovering a new comedian you love," says Lisa Nishimura, vice president of original documentary and comedy for Netflix. "With this event, we're creating a true comedy festival experience for our members where they can scour the globe from home to find some of the freshest voices in comedy."

SHOCKER! eNCA cancels international Emmy nominated Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola; looking for a satirical news show replacement.

The dramatic decline of eNCA (DStv 403) erstwhile current affairs and actuality pillars continue with the Sabido run 24-hour news channel shockingly bringing the ax down on the beloved and acclaimed news satirical show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola after saying it would be back for another season.

The international Emmy nominated news satirical show is the latest victim of eNCA's culling of longtime actuality and current affairs programming amidst budget cuts which saw veteran and sought-after on-air talent leave and viewers grumbling.

Earlier this year eNCA still said that Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola would be back after it was last broadcast on eNCA in April - but it won't.

Gone with it are the comedic stars made by the TV vehicle from puppet head Chester Missing (manhandled by comedian Conrad Koch), Deep Fried Man and Tol A$$ Mo who made several appearances, to the infamous international correspondent David Kibuuka joining Trevor Noah's writing staff on Comedy Central's The Daily Show.

Commercial budget conflict between DiPrente Productions and eNCA sunk Late Nite News with Loyios Gola, together with disagreement over a new format change mandated by eNCA which the producers refused to agree to.

The highly regarded news show, twice nominated for an international Emmy award, and that helped to put eNCA on the map, became a regular and popular spot for local politicians to be "interviewed" by Chester Missing, and became a skit showcase for what local comedians could do on a weekly basis on a small budget.

"We have been negotiating with the LNN team since March," says eNCA in a statement, confirming that the channel wanted LNN producers to cut down the show, saying "regrettably they declined to revise the format".

eNCA wanted LNN to be broken up as a weekly half hour programme in exchange for "short format satirical inserts on a more regular basis rather than a weekly show".

DiPrente and LNN wanted to continue with the 24 minute weekly show and the production company "wasn't interested in producing a shorter format show".

Attempts by DiPrente and eNCA to find alternative funding and syndication options for the next season failed.

"It therefore made little sense to bring back the show for one more season after such a long break,particularly if it [eNCA] then had to find new partners for a satirical offering afterwards," says Patrick Conroy, eNCA managing director in a statement.

"eNCA thanked the cast of LNN for its brave work in the satirical comedy genre," says the channel in a statement, saying "everyone is disappointed we could not reach an agreement".

"We took the brave step to introduce this form of comedy in the mainstream media when nobody else would touch satire on TV. LNN has been a valuable part of our national conversation. We are forever indebted to them for their groundbreaking contribution".

eNCA says it will look for new partners in future to do a news satirical show.

On Digital Media (ODM) and StarTimes Media SA running the StarSat satellite pay-TV platform already the home of the local Puppet Nation ZA, and South African rival ANN7 (DStv 405) 24-hour TV news channel didn't immediately respond to individual media enquiries made on Friday whether either of these would consider picking up and taking over LNN for their own line-ups.

"Thank you, Loy'."

BREAKING. Late Nite News host Loyiso Gola lashes out in a Twitter tirade and trashes Vodacom for its terrible service.

Loyiso Gola, comedian and host of the Emmy nominated satirical weekly news show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on eNCA (DStv 403) and e.tv is as mad as hell and won't take it anymore.

The comedian is lashing out in a Twitter tirade and trashing the South African cellular operator Vodacom for what he sees as terrible service.

Loyiso Gola made his hate and disdain for Vodacom known in a series of Tweets to his 307 000 followers, venting that he feels ripped off  by the cellular service provider, after his cellphone was stolen.

"So I pay Vodacom insurance every month for them to tell me I must pay R7 000 for a new iPhone," Loyiso Gola wrote.

He followed it up with an expletive laced rant against Vodacom, asking followers to join him, and Tweets like "VODACOM IS A RIPOFF", "Been taking sh*t from Vodacom for a while now" and "I hate Vodacom's slow ass internet".

When Vodacom responded with "Hi Loyiso, please DM us your contact number and we'll get in touch to sort this out ASAP", Loyiso Gola responded with an expletive telling Vodacom to go away.

He followed it up with a "Dear Vodacom, If I was not clear the first time #ihatevodacom".

Loyiso Gola added: "R12 800 for an iPhone 5S. Vodacom has lost the plot".

Chester Missing didn't respond but will presumably send Loyiso Gola a please call me.

Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on eNCA does a hilarious SABC1 Khumbul'ekhaya, begging Mamma Ramphela to come home to Agang.

It's incredibly clever and hilarious - but to fully get it you need to know and have watched the original show.

Wednesday night on Late Nite News with Loyiso Gosa on eNCA (DStv 403) at 21:30, the clever comedy show team came up with a skit in which the satirical news show did an imitation of SABC1's emotionally exploitative, yet so deliciously melodramatic missing family member show, Khumbul'ekhaya.

For the sad white people who've never watched Khumbul'ekhaya, a quick lesson.

Kuhumbul'ekhaya literally means "Remember home" or "Remembering Home". (And yes, I watch it, and my brother and his whole family watch it, and we watch SABC2's Friday night classi-trash tokolosh drama. But I digress.)

Khumbul'ekhaya revolves around emotional people who reach out to lost or missing family members - with the TV show which then tries to find the person.

Then everybody makes contact, but it's often not happy and hardly ever really ends happy - it's just drama and tears and heavy insanity, because social dysfunction actually led to the person who left to leave in the first place - but you have to watch it to believe it. Engrossing television.

Anyway. So LNN with Loyiso Gola cleverly used the format and made their own version of Khumbul'ekhaya - and what a genius idea.

In their "episode" of Khumbul'ekhaya it was distraught Agang political party members who wanted their Mamma, Ramphela Mamphele back. Ramphela Mamphele left for the Democratic Alliance and Helen Zille and deserted her Agang family. The skit was hilarious.

It was classic Khumbul'ekhaya, but with an extremely current twist and perfectly conceptualised for LNN.

It had some hilarious one-liners:

"I'm writing this letter to Khumbul'ekhaya, to find the mother of our organisation."

"She has abandoned us."

"We last saw her at the office. She asked for the stapler. And we didn't have a stapler."

"We used to do things together. Share Tippex."

"She was last seen, kissing a Botoxi woman in Cape Town".

"Why are you going around Mama, kissing random people when you have a home here?"

BREAKING. Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola and MasterChef South Africa both nominated for International Emmy Awards for 2013.

South Africa's brilliant satirical news show Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on eNCA (DStv 403) and the local version of the format show MasterChef South Africa on M-Net (DStv 101) have both been nominated for International Emmy Awards for 2013.

LNN with Loyiso Gola currently in its 8th season after three years but receiving very little in terms of publicity from eNCA, and MasterChef South Africa which just finished its second season on M-Net, both scored nominations in the extremely strongly contested international version of the Emmys, honouring the best work in television internationally.

The International Emmy Awards from the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences shortlisted 36 nominees across the award's nine categories.

LNN with Loyiso Gola from Diprente Productions scored a nomination as one of the four best programmes in the comedy category.

The eNCA weekly show which sadly isn't on all year such as Tech Report, Maggs on Media or Africa 360 has made name brands out of puppet Chester Missing, and the fictional roving international reporter David Kibuuka who could have actually have his own spin-off show.

MasterChef South Africa from Quizzical Pictures and Lucky Bean Media scored a nomination as one of the four shortlisted programmes from across the world in the category for non-scripted entertainment.

The winners in all the categories will receive their awards on 25 November at the 41st International Emmy Awards gala in New York.

"I want to thank every South African who've ever watched an episode," Loyiso Gola said on eNCA.

"The channel heads, Debbie Meyer [executive producer of current affairs at eNCA] and Patrick Conroy [group head of eNCA] who we interact with every week and who we fight with every week about what should or shouldn't go on the show," said Loyiso Gola.

"I'm happy to be nominated. I talk for a living and for the first time ever I'm speechless. I want to thank Debbie Meyer and Patrick Conroy and Monde Twala [e.tv's group head of channels] for the constant support."

M-Net didn't immediately respond to a media enquiry about the MasterChef South Africa nomination.

BREAKING. Loyiso Gola savages the eNCA for over overly-dramatic story; 'why are you filming this poor man like it's an episode of eKasi Stories?'

The brilliant Loyiso Gola of the oh-so-funny Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola Wednesdays at 21:30 on the eNCA (DStv 403) turned his hilarious satire and comedy to his own TV channel this evening, savaging the eNCA for an over-the-top, overly-dramatic news insert about a striking Cape Town textile worker which Loyiso Gola said went too far into theatrics.

The dramatic and emotionally wrought news insert on the eNCA last week had a reporter visit a textile worker called Cedric at home, showing him making coffee, stirring a pot with an unidentified other person, sitting in the lounge and talking emotionally about why the workers want a raise.

The human interest angle was over-emphasised in the news piece [from eNCA reporter Lester Kiewit by the way] and Loyiso Gola picked up on that.

"The strangest thing was watching the news report on our own news channel, eNCA. We couldn't help but feel that whoever put it together was harbouring feelings of winning ... the Oscars. Or at least a Safta!"

Loyiso Gola showed clips from the news story. "Why eNews Channel Africa, are you filming this poor man like it's an episode of eKasi Stories? What is this? Fact or fiction? No man. This whole thing is like a soapie," said Loyiso Gola.

''I hope Cedric has an agent and got paid for that performance," said Loyiso Gola rubbishing the story. "And who the hell is that other guy? What the hell is going on here? Is the news so desperate for ratings? I wonder how much of this happened in the real news. These guys are clearly, clearly trying to get more viewers."

HILARIOUS. Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola interviews the Marikana sangoma; rips Judith Sephuma, Trevor Noah, David Kau and Top Billing.

It's brilliant and hilarious: Loyiso Gola interviewing the supposed Marikana sangoma who told the miners they would be invincible and invisible if they use his potion.

The incredibly funny skit was peppered with amazing one-liners zinging everyone from Judith Sephuma to Trevor Noah and David Kau to Top Billing -  delivered with deadpan perfection by the sangoma named Thokoza.

Thokoza told Loyiso Gola he's not doing so well after the mine incident. "These are my customers who came to me for everything".

"I know Judith veery well," said the sangoma. "She drops off her Chicken Licken bones every Friday."

"Ask your comedian friends. Ask that boy Trevor Noah. Ask him. People don't know whether he's coloured or just an albino. He came to me. And the next thing ... New York! Baa-baa!"

"That David Kau. He would have been selling hats at the robot. Then he came to me for help. I threw the bones. And said: Dress up like a brown cow. And do black accents for black people. Next thing he's getting  married on Top Billing. Top!"

I simply HAD to upload a clip of this deliciously wonderful skit after I've watched it since last night multiple, multiple times. The comedic timing, facial expressions, pacing and tone of voice of both are just perfect.

Programming note: Fifth season of Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola set to return to the eNCA on Wednesday 12 September at 21:30.

The 5th season of Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola (LNN) will start on Wednesday 12 September at 21:30 on the eNCA (DStv 403).

The satirical news show is fronted by Loyiso Gola.and will have repeats on Thursdays at 12:30, Fridays at 21:00 and Saturdays at 16:30.

So far not a single word publicity wise to TV critics and writers from e.tv or the eNCA about an excellent TV show starting again in exactly a week's time.

Programming note: The crisp comedic coolness of Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola back for a 2nd season on e.tv, eNews Channel.

Late night local TV comedy has found a refreshing, sparkling, irreverently apt and fearlessly funny show in the satirical Late Nite News (LLN) with Loyiso Gola that will be back for a second season on e.tv and the eNews Channel (DStv 403) from Wednesday, 16 March at 21:30.

Where many have tried (and are still trying) in the notoriously difficult genre of late night comedy/satire/talk to crack in South Africa, Loyiso Gola is spot on great with his satirical faux news show that will return with a new set. Loyiso Gola is already successfully starting to look very much like South Africa's version of Jon Stewart - ripping news makers, news institutions, the media and headline making stories and politicians with just the right measure of jabs that's smile-inducingly funny. Late Nite News is a joy - devoid of the overacted antics, forced jokes, stilted dialogue and unfunny comedians who've tried before and feel so self-conscious of their efforts (and don't really know the news) that it all falls flat.

Even the press release e.tv issued about the new second season of Late Nite News brims with tone-perfect humour, coyly teasing: ''The new season won't be any different. Some classified information has been leaked, and has indicated that viewers can expect to see old and new faces, a brand new set as well as a focus on the upcoming municipal elections and all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans. But this is all hearsay.'' Quite indicative of the strong, courant relevant, yet tongue in cheek approach viewers get to see in Late Nite News.

"We developed Late Nite News out of the need to see satire on South African TV, and to create the platform to comment in this way on current affairs and politics,'' says Tamsin Andersson, Late Nite News producer. ''Season two is so exciting because of all we learnt during the training ground of season one, and the incredible creative talent who have come to be involved in the show. We have some of the best comedians in the country today writing and performing on Late Nite News and Loyiso Gola as the host of the show has such a strong voice.''

The regular cast of Loyiso Gola, David Kibuuka, Riaad Moosa and Chester Missing will all be back for the ssecond season.  ''We are going to hit harder. We are bringing a new energy to this season,'' says Loyiso Gola. ''We've added a couple of awesome new characters and Dave and Chester are definitely going to pull a couple of surprises.''

Besides the Wednesday 21:30 timeslot Late Nite News will repeat on the eNews Channel on Thursdays (10:30), Fridays (09:30), and Saturdays and Sundays (10:30).

BREAKING. Loyiso Gola to be the host of the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards.

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Loyiso Gola will be the host of the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards that's taking place on Thursday, November 4 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.

Loyiso Gola, who's satirical late night news show, Late Nite News starts this Wednesday on e.tv at 21:30 will be the main host of the annual awards ceremony honouring the best in music videos across Africa. Loyiso Gola will be joined by Channel O VJ's Kabelo and Lungile and Dineo Moeketsi who's the new O Access presenter. Viewers can currently vote at http://www.mva.channelotv/ for their favourite music videos in 14 categories.

ALSO READ: Channel O announces the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards nominees.

BREAKING. e.tv starting a satirical local news show, Late Nite News with comedian Loyiso Gola.

e.tv is ramping up its local production slate quietly but massively, its latest TV production being Late Nite News - e.tv's new late night satirical news show that the red letter broadcaster just officially announced.

Late Nite News that will be fronted by comedian Loyiso Gola was an open secret within the TV industry the last while, but e.tv just officially confirmed that Late Nite News will debut on e.tv and the eNews Channel (DStv 403) on Wednesday, September 29 at 21:30.

Late Nite News will be produced by Diprente Productions with an intial 11 episode order for the half hour show that will tackle and make light of current affairs and breaking news and include jokes on international news as well as the political sphere. Late Nite News that will be set in a ''news studio'' with Loyiso Gola as the ''news anchor'', will be similar in style to The Daily Show with comedian Jon Stewart on America's Comedy Central channel. Comedians Riaad Moosa and Jason Cope will play ''field reporters'' on Late Nite News similar to how America's Steve Colbert started out in The Daily Show before getting his own spin-off show. Similar to this American show Loyiso Gola plans to be very aggressive and confrontational regarding the news stories, how they're covered and about who's covering them.

''The show is going to be absolutely awesome,'' gushes Loyiso Gola in the e.tv press release. ''The reports are really as I see issues and news today. It's a completely different kind of show that will have viewers in absolute stitches every time. We've got some of the country's funniest comedians working on the show.'' Late Nite News will end each episode with a ''Morale Index'' incorporating an animated graphic that will look at the week's milestones and failures.