How to Run an Award-Winning Gig with Chuma Bentele

10 Oct 20251:23:50

About this episode

Chuma Bentele is a Cape Town-based animator and comedian who is part of the Comics Choice Award-winning That's Not Funny team, and has worked on the Disney animated Afrofuturist…

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