Comedian Yaaseen Barnes wants audiences to put the seriousness of everyday life aside for a while with his new show, "Just Jokes".
South Africans have a funny way of dealing with life: we make a joke out of it.
It can happen in the middle of a serious conversation, in a family WhatsApp group or while complaining about something that was definitely not funny five minutes earlier.
A sentence can switch from English to Afrikaans, pick up some slang along the way and somehow end with everyone laughing.
For comedian Yaaseen Barnes, that instinct is not just part of being South African. It is part of the comedy.
