STAND-UP comedian Harith Iskander Musa is dead serious when it comes to being Malaysian.
Of Malay and Scottish descent, he had a hard time ticking a box within the racial category when he was growing up. “Why don’t we get rid of the four boxes and just have one box. Race: Malaysia,” he tells The Nut Graph in an 11 Oct 2010 interview at Samsaraa, the restaurant Harith and his wife of Chindian descent, Jezamine Lim, opened in April 2010.
Come 2011, Harith would have been making audiences laugh here and overseas for 20 years. In October 2010, he was the headliner in the Kings and Queen of Comedy Asia tour, featuring five of the best stand-up comedians from Malaysia, Singapore, India and Vietnam. The show played to a packed house in both Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
Harith first became famous for being a funny man because of the Shell ads he acted in. Since then, he’s endorsed other recognisable brands such as Nescafe and Celcom.
Harith has also hosted TV talk shows, acted in theatre, movies and TV serials, and performed in and co-directed m usicals, the most recent being the box-office hit Cuci the Musical, together with his buddy Hans Isaac. His most recent production as writer, actor and director is the sketch comedy programme Ten Ten Ten on Astro Warna. He also co-stars with Singapore’s most famous export, Phua Chu Kang, played by Gurmit Singh, in the latest two seasons of Phua Chu Kang Sdn Bhd on ntv7.
Harith realised the value of his work as a comedian when he discovered how much laughing mattered to others. “I get a rush when I do a good show, knowing that people have laughed for half an hour or 45 minutes,” he says, adding that the people who make him laugh are his friends and his wife.
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