Earl Okin

British musical comedian Earl Okin performs live at Comedy Club Haug in Rotterdam.

The UK’s leading musical comedian offers his sophisticated Jazz based music-comedy ‘kleinkunst’. Completely unique, you need to see him, because there’s nobody like him.

Earl Okin is known as one of the UK’s most eminent Jazz singers and songwriters, signed to the same publisher as the Beatles in the 1960s, recording his first single at Abbey Road, his songs covered by everyone from Cilla Black to Laura Fygi. In the 1970s, however, before touring with people like Van Morrison, Fairport Convention and Wings, he performed at many folk clubs around the UK, Belgium and Holland, where ‘alternative comedy’ first developed. Among the other performers on that circuit was Billy Connolly.

In the early 80s, Earl was invited by Nigel Planer to perform at the legendary Comic Strip and has been a headline act on the UK circuit ever since, while he toured Holland and Belgium with De Nieuwe Snaar later on. Earl has guested on top TV shows in Belgium, Holland, Brazil, Australia etc...He first met Marcel Haug when he was part of a comedy tour of Holland promoted by a cigarette company, even though Earl has never smoked.

What to expect: jazz and bossa nova on guitar, sharp self-written songs and his famous “vocal trumpet”. This is musical comedy, not straight stand-up. At 79, Earl Okin is still one of a kind.

“Multi-talented musical supremo” Time Out