Teenage comic sensation Connor Savage is earning rave reviews and keeping Hong Kong audiences enthralled, at least twice or three times his age he amuses with his stand up routine jokes! This goes to show a good and well thought out punch line can be enjoyed by across generations! Here, Connor discusses homework, Robin Williams and which jokes are strictly off-limits!

iCUBED.us – Chris Lau
CS - Connor Savage

iCUBED.us: A stand up comedian? Shouldn't you be up to your eyeballs with homework at school?

CS: No not really, homework has never been an issue. It gets done! I mean I still do have something called parents!

iCUBED.us: How did you first get involved with stand up comedy?

CS: I used to watch “Just For Laughs” and then I just really wanted to try it so I tried it out.

iCUBED.us: Let me guess, at school, you are known as the 'joker'?

CS: Haha! No, not really! I mean when I was younger I was but not much anymore.

iCUBED.us: Why is laughing important? Can anyone learn stand up?

CS: Well yes, I believe anyone can learn to be a stand-up comedian? I mean it's not easy but once you learn it, it’s a lot of fun. It's important to laugh because I believe it's the only thing that keeps us sane and happy.

iCUBED.us: Is good humour cross-cultural? Do all Hong Kongers get your jokes?

CS: Not all Hong Kongers but at TakeOut Comedy we get all types of different cultures in the audience so it's interesting to see who laughs at what.

iCUBED.us: You must be the youngest stand-up comic in Hong Kong, if not Asia! Do you get recognized on the street?

CS: No, never gotten recognized but I have sort of a reputation amongst the other schools of being “that comedian kid.”

iCUBED.us: Who is your personal favourite stand up comic? And why?

CS: Probably Dane Cook or Robin Williams. Dane Cook because when I watched “Just For Laughs”, he was the comic that really stood out to me and that's kinda when I said that's what I wanna do. His humour is very raw, but funny. Robin Williams, because he is just so brilliant and quick thinking. He’s a really great inspiration for me, I think it's because of how talented he is and his style of comedy is just so great.

iCUBED.us: What do your jokes revolve around? Surely, given your age, some jokes are off limits?

CS: Oh ya, there are lots of things I personally can’t do or say on stage but for my age I try my best to push the limits as far as I can without going overboard. My jokes revolve around lots of things. I get inspiration from everything usually if I don’t like something I write a joke about it. I express myself through my comedy.

iCUBED.us: Be honest! How nervous were you for your first ever live performance?

CS: Haha, well my first performance was in Toronto, Canada during a talent show and I had gone over my set about a hundred times so to be honest I wasn’t nervous in my first show. It was when I started performing in Hong Kong that I got nervous.

iCUBED.us: Do you have a mentor to guide you through your comedy career? Is your age a hindrance in anyway?

CS: A mentor? Well Jami Gong the owner of TakeOut Comedy is someone I would consider a mentor. He’s been really supportive but so has everyone, but without him I would be nowhere. My age can be a hinderance sometimes. I mean like I said there are a lot of things I can’t say that other comics can because of their age, but other than that not really I’m pretty much treated the same as everyone else at the club.

iCUBED.us: So why did the chicken cross the road?

CS: Hmmm... well I would ask him myself but he never made it to the other side. He didn’t look both ways!

Thank you.

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