Hello, my name is Victor Pãtrãşcan and I am a comedian.

I was born in Romania and grew up in a small village in Galati county with my grandparents in a house they 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 with my mom and after bluffing my way through school, 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 being in London at the UCL Print Room Cafe in 2012. That was also when I got my first official complaint for telling inappropriate jokes. We had a meeting about it, I was told off and I was almost expelled from the university Comedy Club.

Since 2020 I’ve been living on the road. No fixed address, producing and performing my own shows every day. The thing that I am most proud of is that I organise all these shows myself. No agents or representation. Independent. I love it like this. Like, when you send an email – you’ll get a reply from me, whe you buy the tickets – you buy them from me directly. I still do a lot myself, although now I have help from the very talented Holly Blay, but when I started I used to do almost everything from designing the posters to calling up the venues and asking them if they would have my show.

In 2023 alone, I performed in front of almost 30,000 people across 70 cities, 32 countries on 2 continents. Consequently, I might as well have a claim for having the longest and most extensive self-produced comedy show in Europe.

In the last 4 years, I’ve told my jokes in Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Austria, Singapore, Turkey, Sweden, France, Serbia, Switzerland, Georgia, Finland, Belgium, Iceland, Ukraine, Spain, Estonia, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland, South Korea, Portugal, Kazakhstan, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Norway, Slovakia, very close to the Vatican, Thailand, Georgia, UK, Slovenia, Armenia, Croatia, Poland, Latvia, Armenia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, UAE, Denmark, Moldova, Vietnam, Hungary, and even Bulgaria.

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 telling jokes. Get tickets and watch the some live comedy live because 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! Click on this and fill in the form. Tell me where you live. Seriously, I’ll come to your town in your part of the world.

photos by Georges Degoumois