London to get its first Serbo-Croat stand-up show

A comedian is set to perform the first Serbo-Croat stand-up show in London.

Pedja Bajović, is a Bosnian, born in a Montenegro, raised in Serbia and now lives in Croatia, where he has help form a growing Balkan stand-up scene.

He said: ‘There are many people from this part of the world living in the London area now, and they are very familiar with the genre of stand-up comedy, which is something we still need to explain to too many around here.

‘So, now the London-based Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Montenegrins get the chance to see stand-up in their own language for the first time. No matter that it has officially got four different names, in spoken terms it is one language. On top of that, both Macedonians and Slovenes understand it as well! In short, there is a market there.’

In 2011, Bajović, who describes his style as somewhere between Jack Dee and Louis CK, performed with other Balkan comedians at the Bath comedy festival, but in English.

Around 50 comics now perform in the Balkans, and Bajović was the first of them to produce a live DVD.

The news comes after it was announced that London was to get its second French language comedy club, with plans for German nights, too.

Bajović's Serbo-Croat show will take place in Headliners Comedy Club in the George IV pub in Chiswick on October 27. Click here for tickets

Here he is performing, in English, in Bath and Zagreb:

Published: 17 Oct 2013