Jandino Asporaat

Jandino Asporaat (born 9 January 1981), full name Jandino Jullian Asporaat, is a Curacaoan-Dutch stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer, and voice actor. He was born in Willemstad, Curacao, in the former Netherlands Antilles, where he grew up in the Buena Vista neighborhood, and relocated to the Netherlands with his family in 1992, settling in Rotterdam at age 11. After completing his studies, he worked as a painter before focusing on a career in stand-up comedy.

Asporaat began his professional comedy career in 2002 with the Rotterdam-based theater group Young Stage and acted in various Dutch theater groups. He made television appearances such as The Comedy Factory in 2007 and was later part of the NPS TV Lab team, developing the series Comedy at Work, which evolved into De Dino Show. He has hosted shows including DINO on RTL 5 from November 2015. On 10 December 2015 he released his first self-produced full-length film, Bon Bini Holland, for which he won the "Golden film" award at the Dutch Golden and Platin Film awards, and in July 2016 he voiced Snowball in the Dutch version of The Secret Life of Pets.

In his stand-up career, Asporaat reached the final of the cabaret festival Cameretten in 2005, where he was awarded the personality prize despite finishing second. His headline theater presentations include Antilliaanse Pot (2006), Buena Vista (2008), in which he reflects on growing up in Curacao, and Laat ze maar komen (2011). He also toured the Netherlands, Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean as part of the comedy group Caribbean Combo, and on 7 June 2014 became the first cabaret artist to perform at the newly opened Rotterdam Ahoy.