DURBAN is in for a heavy dose of side-splitting stand-up comedy - Canadian comedy hotshotSugar Sammy is headed for Durban.

His Durban date comes hot on the heels of a successful three-week run in South Africa, hosting the main stage at the 10th Cape Town International Comedy Festival.

The Canadian-Indian comedy star will be launching his new show, Down With the Brown, at Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World. The show will run from February 5 to March 4.

Sugar Sammy is often compared to fellow Canadian-Indian comic Russell Peters.

He has enjoyed considerable success in his own country and was voted number one stand-up for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by the readers of The Montreal Mirror, Montreal's premier arts and entertainment weekly. Sugar Sammy has also been enjoying a good run on the international circuit.

He has set attendance records and has received rave reviews across North America and Europe.

During his recent run in Cape Town, he received a lot of praise for his hilarious material and laconic delivery.

Sugar Sammy has also appeared on America's Comedy Network television channel, at the Hollywood Comedy Festival in Los Angeles and at the 2004 and 2005 Montreal Just For Laughs festivals - the world's largest and most prestigious comedy festival.

In Down With the Brown, Sugar Sammy uses fresh and edgy insight to explore the dichotomy between his life in a conventional East-Indian home in Canada and his experiences in the heart of the entertainment industry.

Sugar Sammy stirs up and samples the multicultural melting pot that mirrors life in most urban centres today. In doing so, he presents hilarious scenarios and comments on society's inherent contradictions in a brilliantly entertaining way.

From arranged marriage and his Indian ancestry, to his views on deviant sex, drugs and relationships, Down With the Brown has been billed as a laugh-a-minute show.

Sugar Sammy will be supported by South African comedy talent Loyiso Gola, who will open each night for Sugar Sammy.

Gola was the host of the Let Durban Laugh Comedy Festival at the Durban City Hall recently, and the Amahlayu eTheku Comedy Show at the Bat Centre last year.

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