Daliso Chaponda (born 29 November 1979) is a Zambian-born Malawian stand-up comedian currently residing in the United Kingdom.
[2] Chaponda was born in Zambia in 1979 and spent several years between multiple African countries before going to Malawi at the age of 11.
His father George Chaponda worked as a lawyer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, so the family lived in various countries such as Thailand, Australia and Switzerland.
[5][4] In 2014, he co-wrote a BBC Radio 4 drama-comedy series inspired by the incident, Sibusiso Mamba's When the Laughter Stops.
[18] Chaponda has said in interviews that he admires many standup comedians, but has been most influenced by humorous authors such as George Bernard Shaw and Roald Dahl.