Zoltan Kaszas

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Zoltan Kaszas is a Hungarian-American comedian and actor. [1] [2] [3]

Kaszas was born in Budapest, Hungary, May 23, 1987 and raised by his single mother. He moved to the United States on July 4, 1991, at 4 years old. [4] He started doing stand-up comedy at the age of nineteen. He has since won the Seattle International Comedy Competition, the San Diego Comedy Festival, San Diego Funniest Person Contest, and the Rockstar Energy Drink Comedy Throwdown. [2]

Kaszas is best known from his Dry Bar Comedy Special “Cat Jokes”, a clip of which has over 60 million views on Facebook. [5] His follow up special “Modern Male” has 2.6 million views on YouTube, [6] and is also heard regularly on SiriusXM. He has won The Seattle Comedy Competition and performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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