Hello. My name is Pãtrãşcan and I’m a stand up comedian. 

I was born in Romania and grew up in a small village in Galati county in a house my grandfather and grandmother built with their own hands. It was one of those houses with the toilet in the back yard. When I got older, I moved to the city where I earned a BA in Philosophy from the worst university in Romania.

I’m the first Romanian to perform stand up comedy in broken English, with my first performance in London at the UCL Print Room Cafe in 2012. That was also when I got my first official complaint for telling innapropriate jokes. We had a meeting about it and I was almost expelled from the UCL Comedy Club.

Since then, I’ve told my jokes in front of a crowd of people throughout the United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, Sweden, Denmark, France, Serbia, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Iceland, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Gibraltar, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania.

all photos by Georges Degoumois

In 2022, I performed in front of over 16.000 people, in 70 cities from 27 countires on 2 continents in venues ranging from 28 people in Neskaupstaður, Iceland to 430 in Warsaw, Poland. I produced all of these shows by myself, so I’m extra excited about this.

In 2021 I started self producing and touring the ‘the Dirty Immigrant’ show in 17 countries and 45 cities in Europe. In 2019 and 2020, I toured my first solo show called The Trouble with being Born Romanian throughout Europe with shows in 30 different cities. Also, in 2019 and 2020 I was first in the rankings of Roast Battle London. Oh, and my claim to fame came in 2021 when I was a special guest on the Romanian TV show iUmor where I scared a few people with my jokes.

Right now, I’m on tour in Europe. Get tickets and watch the some live comedy live.

I’m planning to venture out where no Romanian has gone before. Let me know where you live and I’ll come and do a show there! Fill in this form, please, and tell me where you live. Seriously, I’ll come to your town and your part of the world. 

This is a little documentary I made about performing stand up comedy in English throughout Europe. It was filmed in Poland in early 2022 during my first tour there and it features Maya Upchurch and my, since then, tour manager Holly Blay. The whole thing was shot by Jordan Gray and edited by me. 

What’s the talk of the town regarding Victor’s comedic prowess? The following statements were said by other comedians:

“a delightful burp of art” Jack Brooks
“hilarious questions, confusing jokes” Tom Ward
“in my top 2 favourite Romanian comics” Ric Wharton
“refreshing look at the world” Avril Poole
“one of the most original” LJ Da Funk
“shocking, surprising and sexy” Siân Doughty
“genuine and warm storyteller” Les Connely
“he’ll quit comedy next year, you should see him now” Radu Isac
“intelligently stupid stand up” Susie Steed
“often hilarious and always fearless” Matt Hutchinson
“I like his jokes most of the time” Luke Capaso
“charming and inventive” Michael Hill
“bizarrely fantastical ” Jake Pickford
“comedy that could get him an award, but not a shag” Natalie Allison
“honest and unique” Tommy Ettling
“sharp, clever and hugely talented” Pol Penter
“terrible person, funny comedian” Loose Brie
“the best kind of slightly uncomfortable” Angus Dunican
“witty dark perceptive brilliant” Ali Woods
“glides effortlessly from the surreal to the sublime” Mo Saffaf
“his photos are good” Huge Davies

“funny and unique observational comedian” Jim Grant
“hilarious Romanian comedian” Luke Poulton
“funny like a masculine flower opening up its world to us!” Aideen Mcqueen
“some of the best immigration material I’ve heard” Rebecca Shortall
“joyous to watch” Leslie Ewing-Burgesse
“very smart and funny jokes” Gatis Kandis
“brilliantly absurd foolishness” Daniel Baker
“bloody Romanians, coming over here” Konstantin Kisin
“Andy Kaufman-like obscurity” Sezar Alkassab
“best dick/ceiling jokes around” Saskia Preston
“you won’t be bored” John Meagher
“childlike grasp of the English accent” Patrick Mccabe
“deserves a quote from a comedian much better than me” Jack Barry
“induces unabashed belly laughter” Robbie Fox
“magnificent jokes, seamless trousers” Brandon Craig
“strange, but funny?” Pauline Eyre
“some would say twisted” Dave Black
“a very strange man” Andy Storey
“would trust him with kids” Faye Treacy
“’Bill Hicks meets Borat’ might be a bit presumptuous” Joe Grant
“super-unpredictable and very funny” David Lewis
“hilarious, inquisitive and intriguing comic brain” Joe Jacobs
“enjoyable acerbic outsider” Rick Kiesewetter
“one of the nice guys” Oh! Standfast
“the reason I voted leave” Calum Ross
“unique comic mind” Jake Baker
“like getting high with your best mate” David Mills
“great eye for comedy” James Loveridge
“probably funnier than that other Romanian comedian” Pete Bazely
“not wiser than you think” David Gersch
“has never offended me with his comedy! So I like him” Athena Kugblenu
“certainly some good bits” Ashley Haden
“is he still peculiar?” Steve McLean
“head scratching, nail biting, comedy chaos” Chris Timoney
“encapsulating inquisitive nature” Rob Copland
“thought-provoking rambling” Patrick Brusnahan
“like a philosopher with jokes” Kavi Appadoo
“haven’t the foggiest” Ian Lane
“pretty ‘woke’ and very dry” Harriet Braine
“like a log flume in a theatre” Declan Kennedy
“mind bending whimsy” Geoff Steel
“investigative, honest and very funny” Simon Stanley
“would pay to see him” Greg Simpson
“controversial sharp ruthless sweetheart” Chester Constable
“still a boy not yet a man” Lubo
“singular comedic voice” Chris Betts
“Unbelievable” Dangerous T
“surprising, utterly huggable” Sasha Ellen
“savvy” Mel Knight
“champion of the silly musing” Joseph Murphy
“puts the ‘king’ in ‘free thinking’” Jonathan Hearn
“very clever, likable and hilarious” Heidi Regan
“dark and funny” Matthew Winning
“was actually funny that one time” Matt Smith
“comedy’s Henri Leconte” Nathan Cassidy
“astute with such misleading charm” Rosie Holt
“unique voice” Don Biswas
“Victor’s got game” Jonny Gillam
“exciting and horrifying” Matt Duwell
“quite big balls” Dave Green
“insightful, deadpan and utterly charming” Sindhu Vee
“a hilarious staple of the London scene” Helen Bauer