Gola goes global on Netflix with his celebrated Unlearning

It’s no secret that globally we’ve been going through a tough time and could all do with a laugh or two right now. Cue Loyiso Gola, who is back on Netflix with his sharp wit and critically acclaimed comedy hour, Unlearning, which debuted globally on Tuesday.

Gola, who will explore his own experience of maturity and masculinity during apartheid in South Africa, is the first African to have a solo full hour of standup comedy on Netflix and it’s the first African original for 2021.

The special first debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, and ran at the MICF, London’s Soho Theatre, Grahamstown and Soho Playhouse in New York.

Following the crazy year that was 2020, Gola brought his special to his hometown, Cape Town.

Africa’s latest Netflix Original was filmed in front of a live audience at the famed Zeits Mocca.

Included in his many accolades, Gola is a twotime Emmy nominated anchor for his satirical news television series, Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola, which launched in 2010, and had 12 seasons.

He is also the African correspondent for Charlie Pickering’s The Weekly on ABC in Australia. Some of Gola’s noteworthy performances include his show, Tall Tales, which ran at the Soho Theatre in 2015, Dude, Where’s My Lion? which ran in Edinburgh, Loyiso Gola Live in New York, which was his debut US standup special, recorded in Brooklyn both in 2016, and the Netflix special Comedians of the World released in 2019.

In 2017, Gola debuted Unlearning in Edinburgh, then later at London’s Soho Theatre and the