Hey there lovely person,

my name is Victor Pãtrãşcan and I am a comedian. For the last 5 years I’ve been touring constantly telling jokes. If you are reading this, most likely I am coming somewhere near you soon. But, before we meet at the show, here’s a little bit about myself.

I grew up in a small village in the East of Romania. I was raised by my grandparents, together with the ducks and the goats they had. We lived in a house they built with their own hands. My grandfather also dug up the hole that became the toilet in the back yard. When I got older, I moved to the city with my mom. I bluffed my way through school until I earned a BA in Philosophy from the worst university in Romania.

In 2012 I moved to London officially to study film, but unofficially because I wanted to tell jokes in English. I saw Seinfeld tell jokes in English so I thought I can do that too. That’s how I became the first Romanian to perform stand up comedy in broken English. I’ve told my first jokes at a show organized by the UCL Comedy Club at the University College London Print Cafe in October 2012. That was when I also got my first official complaint for telling an inappropriate joke. I remember we had a meeting about it.

I still get into trouble every now and then because of my jokes. The meeting at UCL didn’t really help. It doesn’t happen very often, but sometimes there are people who leave the show unhappy because they didn’t appreciate the joke or the subject matter. This always gets the rest of the crowd closer toghether and I think we have a better time after they are gone. This is quite rare, maybe a few people per month. Most people who come to my shows are smart and good humoured. I want to make it clear, I want to make everyone laugh. That’s my priority and intention.

Sometimes it’s me, sometimes people just don’t have a sense of humor. Most of the time it’s the people who were not at the show who get offended the most. For example, earlier in 2025, I got rejected entry into the country of Georgia. The reason was unclear, but it was most likely because the Russian-sponsored government didn’t like the fact that I mentioned in a crowd-work video that their most recent election was bought by Russia. What was strange was that I performed in Georgia in 2024, so the previous government didn’t have any issue with my jokes. But the new 2025 Georgian government by a footbal playing hairy Russian finger puppet with oddly shaped nipples.

I love being on tour and telling jokes. Telling jokes is my childhood dream. I love making everyone, as well as myself, laugh. That’s the only thing I want to do and thanks to people buying tickets, it is also the only thing I do. So, I live on the road beacuse I am touring constantly. I don’t have a home because every day, I am on trains and buses, travelling from country to country, to get to meet the next audience.

The thing that I am most proud of is that I organise all these shows myself. No agents or representation. Zero outside investment or influence. I invest my own money that I make from the tickets that I sell. All independent and self sufficient. I love it like this. Like, when you send me an email, you’ll get a reply from me. When you buy the tickets, you buy them directly from me. And If you find spelling mistakes anywehre in this text, these are also from me.

These days, the production work is so much that I had to get help from my very smart and talented friend, Holly. But, I remember when I started touring I used to be a one-man-band. I was designing the posters, I was calling up the venues to ask them to host my show, I was even laughing at my own jokes.

Over the last years, I have done more things than I ever dreamt of. One thing I am happy about is that now my jokes can do much more than just make people laugh. For example, me and my friends recently had the privilege tell jokes and raise some money for charity in Lviv and Kyiv in Ukraine and in Beirut, Lebanon.

In 2024, I performed 298 shows in 41 countries in 114 different cities and told jokes to tens of thousands of people in all sorts of locations like theatres, cathedrals, temples, museums, bunkers, bomb shelters, a boat, a junkyard and 2 shows in Bulgaria,  Previously, in 2023, I performed in over over 300 shwos on 2 continents in 70 cities, 32 countries. Consequently, I might as well claim to have the longest and most extensive self-produced comedy show in Europe and probably the world. Ever.

In the last 5 years, I’ve told my jokes in Japan • Germany • Italy • Lebanon • Uzbekistan • the Netherlands • Greece • Austria • Singapore • Turkiye • Jordan • Sweden • France • Serbia • Switzerland • Georgia • Finland • Belgium • Azerbaijan • Iceland • Ukraine • Albania • Malta • Spain • Estonia • both sides of Cyprus • Ireland • Romania • Malaysia • South Korea • Liechtenstein • Kyrgyzstan • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Portugal • Kosovo • Gibraltar • Kazakhstan • the Czech Republic • Hong Kong • Norway • Slovakia • very close to the Vatican • Thailand • UK • Slovenia • Armenia • Croatia • Poland • Latvia • North Macedonia • Lithuania • Luxembourg • UAE • Denmark • Moldova • Vietnam • Hungary • and even Bulgaria.

In my youth, back in 2019 and 2020 I was at the top in the rankings of Roast Battle London. Oh, and my big claim to fame came in 2021 when I was a special guest on the Romanian TV show iUmor where I told jokes about religion and racism in Romania and consequently scared a few people with my jokes. They didn’t even try schedule a meeting.

Right now, I’m probably on tour somewhere in Europe telling jokes. Come and watch me tell jokes life! It’s much more fun than on your phone or on TV. I’m coming to your village, where no Romanian has gone before. Let me know where you live and I’ll come and do a show there! Click on this link here and fill in the form. Seriously, I’ll come to your town in your part of the world, but I need to know where.

all photos by Georges Degoumois