Adrian Niro is a canadian comedian who is currently residing in Moscow. For 6 years of being an active performer, he has done all the major stages in Moscow and even abroad – participated in Punchline Comedy Festival, was the runner-up at the very first Last Comic Standing competition in Moscow, did a one man 90 minute solo show in Belgium. Adrian has also been a long-time host of English stand up shows at Jim N Jacks’ bar which is considered by many to be the birth place of English comedy in Moscow. Atop of everything else he has recently started doing comedy in russian.

Join us in over 90 minute conversation to find out how a Canadian can end up coming and living in Moscow, how difficult performing in front of savage crowds can be, how a comedian can end up getting punched in the face by audience members, how to properly use a “foreigner card” when you perform in Russia and a lot of other inside details about stand up.