ANGEL CAMPEY
Western Cape
Angel Campey is a multi-award winning South African comedian, radio presenter and comedy screenwriter. Now the host of the popular afternoon drive show on Smile FM, ‘The Joyride with Angel Campey’ she has an extensive comedy career that started in 2011 on the infamous underground comedy club circuit of Long Street, Cape Town.
Born in a government hospital in Durban, at a very young age, she then bumbled her way aimlessly through life until she tripped and fell into Comedy, and everything made sense. She obtained an Honours in Film, Media and Visual Studies from UCT and taught English in South Korea before finding the microphone and vindicating herself from all those teachers who told her she spoke too much in school.
Internationally, Angel’s headlined in top comedy clubs around New York City, performed in Montreal, Canada during the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival and been invited to tour to Lagos, Nigeria as well as Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya performing alongside some of Africa’s comedy megastars to sold out crowds.
Campey has two critically acclaimed, self-written comedy specials under her belt, her debut was directed by Nik Rabinowitz and titled ‘Yes, Really Angel’ and her sold out smash hit, ‘Devil’s Advocate‘ which toured from the National Arts Festival to the Baxter Theatre. A writer on the double international Emmy Award Nominated ‘ZAnews: Puppet Nation’ for over 4 years, Campey garnered multiple Screenwriter’s Guild Muse awards for her script-writing work as well as the 2018 SAFTA for best TV comedy writing.
Angel Campey is a multi-award winning South African comedian, radio presenter and comedy screenwriter. Now the host of the popular afternoon drive show on Smile FM, ‘The Joyride with Angel Campey’ she has an extensive comedy career that started in 2011 on the infamous underground comedy club circuit of Long Street, Cape Town.
Born in a government hospital in Durban, at a very young age, she then bumbled her way aimlessly through life until she tripped and fell into Comedy, and everything made sense. She obtained an Honours in Film, Media and Visual Studies from UCT and taught English in South Korea before finding the microphone and vindicating herself from all those teachers who told her she spoke too much in school.
Internationally, Angel’s headlined in top comedy clubs around New York City, performed in Montreal, Canada during the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival and been invited to tour to Lagos, Nigeria as well as Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya performing alongside some of Africa’s comedy megastars to sold out crowds.
Campey has two critically acclaimed, self-written comedy specials under her belt, her debut was directed by Nik Rabinowitz and titled ‘Yes, Really Angel’ and her sold out smash hit, ‘Devil’s Advocate‘ which toured from the National Arts Festival to the Baxter Theatre. A writer on the double international Emmy Award Nominated ‘ZAnews: Puppet Nation’ for over 4 years, Campey garnered multiple Screenwriter’s Guild Muse awards for her script-writing work as well as the 2018 SAFTA for best TV comedy writing.
Other shows she’s notably worked on and appeared in are the SAFTA winning comedic panel show; ‘Point of Order‘, that was on Showmax and SABC2 and head writer of ‘Comedy Mixtape‘, which aired Friday evenings in Prime Time on SABC2 which Angel also played multiple characters on, as well as a writer of the 2022 SAFTA winning ‘Politically Aweh‘, an online political satire and news explainer show.
Angel’s radio journey began in 2017 as comedy had put her on the radar of Smile FM who made her co-host on the Smile Drive alongside Maurice Carpede. The team were nominated for a 2020 SA Radio Award as one of the top Commercial Drive Shows in the country and Angel scooped the 2020 South African Comedy Awards win for the ‘Top Comedian on Radio’.
In 2023 Smile FM launched ‘The Joyride with Angel Campey‘ – the only female led afternoon drive show in Cape Town at the time. Catch her and her quirky team (Sports Presenter, Eugene Mpatheni and Traffic reporter, Dean Friederich) on air daily, from 4-7pm on Smile 90.4fm.
Her extensive experience and accolades in both media and on comedy stages makes her easily adaptable to any environment and she hosts many corporate MC events, as well as rock concerts, arena shows, year-end functions and award ceremonies – bringing her wit and professionalism to your event.
