I have performed live stand-up in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, participated in numerous comedy festivals, including the Singapore Comedy Fringe Festival, Manila Improv Festival, the Magners International Comedy Festival, Kuala Lumpur International Comedy Festival and Fringe World. I won the 1st runner up in the 2012 Hong Kong International Comedy Competition. I was invited to perform in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015, the first troupe of 'Comedy Zone Asia’. In the same year, I was invited to give a TEDx talk in the National University of Singapore on the topic "Learning to stand-up". I represented Hong Kong to compete in Laugh Factory's Funniest Person in the World Competition in 2016. I debuted my first solo show "No Boyfriend No Fries" in the Singapore Comedy Fringe 2017 and the Perth Fringe World Festival 2017. I also founded the Singaporean Improv Troupe "The Latecomers" in 2014 and directed the troupe till 2017. Since I moved to the Czech Republic in 2017, I organise a monthly comedy night, bringing comedians from all the world to perform in the lovely Central European City Olomouc. I have headlined all over Europe, including more recently in the Sziget Festival in 2022. I performed in the Tallinn Fringe and Women in Comedy Festival Manchester in 2024 with a brand new show "Bohemian Hongkie".
I have performed live stand-up in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, participated in numerous comedy festivals, including the Singapore Comedy Fringe Festival, Manila Improv Festival, the Magners International Comedy Festival, Kuala Lumpur International Comedy Festival and Fringe World. I won the 1st runner up in the 2012 Hong Kong International Comedy Competition. I was invited to perform in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2015, the first troupe of 'Comedy Zone Asia’. In the same year, I was invited to give a TEDx talk in the National University of Singapore on the topic "Learning to stand-up". I represented Hong Kong to compete in Laugh Factory's Funniest Person in the World Competition in 2016. I debuted my first solo show "No Boyfriend No Fries" in the Singapore Comedy Fringe 2017 and the Perth Fringe World Festival 2017. I also founded the Singaporean Improv Troupe "The Latecomers" in 2014 and directed the troupe till 2017. Since I moved to the Czech Republic in 2017, I organise a monthly comedy night, bringing comedians from all the world to perform in the lovely Central European City Olomouc. I have headlined all over Europe, including more recently in the Sziget Festival in 2022. I performed in the Tallinn Fringe and Women in Comedy Festival Manchester in 2024 with a brand new show "Bohemian Hongkie".
In addition to performances, I also conduct corporate trainings and stand-up/improvisation/communication skills/creativity workshops. My previous clients include the National Library Board in Singapore, Expedia as well as various universities in Asia, Europe and North America.
In addition to performances, I also conduct corporate trainings and stand-up/improvisation/communication skills/creativity workshops. My previous clients include the National Library Board in Singapore, Expedia as well as various universities in Asia, Europe and North America.
"Rapid Fire and Cleverly Funny!"
"Rapid Fire and Cleverly Funny!"
(Jami Gong, TakeOut Comedy)
(Jami Gong, TakeOut Comedy)
"Clever, snappy and very funny"
"Clever, snappy and very funny"
(Daily Review, Australia)
(Daily Review, Australia)
"A winning stage presence" (www.chortle.co.uk)
"A winning stage presence" (www.chortle.co.uk)
"Joanna Sio (Singapore) worked a great joke into her set about what it meant to see a white man working as a street sweeper when she first arrived in London. ‘I didn’t know white people knew how to do that! I nearly walked up to him to offer to take over.’ Delivered in her casual, utterly charming mode, the joke gestured to the lived experience of colonial legacy: generally speaking, the only white people in Sio’s part of Asia are rich bankers. Another cheeky moment in Sio’s set compared Hong Kong with Australia, ‘a British colony like Australia, but with Chinese people and no criminals.’ All heads in the crowd threw back in the laughter of recognition; in moments like these, it felt like nearly everyone in the audience hailed from the same regions as the performers. Sio is a consummate comedian: a possessor of razor-sharp wit and an enviable ease, an intimacy with the crowd (who immediately warmed to her) which was all to the good for throwing out those delightful barbs." (Peril magazine)
"Joanna Sio (Singapore) worked a great joke into her set about what it meant to see a white man working as a street sweeper when she first arrived in London. ‘I didn’t know white people knew how to do that! I nearly walked up to him to offer to take over.’ Delivered in her casual, utterly charming mode, the joke gestured to the lived experience of colonial legacy: generally speaking, the only white people in Sio’s part of Asia are rich bankers. Another cheeky moment in Sio’s set compared Hong Kong with Australia, ‘a British colony like Australia, but with Chinese people and no criminals.’ All heads in the crowd threw back in the laughter of recognition; in moments like these, it felt like nearly everyone in the audience hailed from the same regions as the performers. Sio is a consummate comedian: a possessor of razor-sharp wit and an enviable ease, an intimacy with the crowd (who immediately warmed to her) which was all to the good for throwing out those delightful barbs." (Peril magazine)
