Radu Isac

Radu Isac is a Romanian stand-up comedian based in London. He started comedy in Romania in 2006 and, after short appearances on the Los Angeles stand-up scene in 2014 including Kill Tony, moved to London in 2015, fully transitioning to the English-speaking comedy scene. He was part of the first generation of stand-up comedians in Romania and has been described as the comedians' comedian.

In his early career, Isac received an award for the art of being weird at the Romanian Comedy Festival in 2008 and second place at the Golden Onion Festival in 2010. He performed in Romanians are here at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2016, together with Sergiu Floroaia and Toma Alexandru, and in 2018 he performed in his home country on Antena 1.

Isac's humour, described as "playful, idiosyncratic" and "intelligently subversive", won him multiple awards, including the Funhouse Champion of Champions in 2016 and Harrogate Comedian of the Year 2017, along with special mentions as a finalist at Amused Moose 2016 and English Comedian of the Year 2017. He has had multiple appearances at the BBC, Channel 4, and the Global Pillage Podcast, and was listed in Steve Best's book Joker Face. He had solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, 2019, and 2022, and is known for representing and promoting immigrant comedy in London, co-founding the East European Comedy festival in 2018.