The five books John Moorhead couldn’t live without: Hong Kong comedy club founder’s must-reads if stuck on a desert island
From remarkable autobiographies he hopes to pass down to his children to thought-provoking works of fiction, find out what are Moorhead’s favourite reads
John Moorhead was starting out as an actor in London in the early 1990s when the recession hit, so he moved to Hong Kong where his parents lived. He got a job with Star TV doing voice-overs which then led to a presenting job. When Rupert Murdoch bought Star TV, the shows were cut and he started bringing comedians here from the UK for the love of it.
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In 1994, he founded the Punchline Comedy Club and it was an immediate success, attracting enthusiastic audiences to shows by renowned comedians from the UK, the US, Australia and Canada. Punchline stages regular gigs in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, and he has started bringing international comedians to the Gold Coast resort area in Tuen Mun, opposite the city’s international airport, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Here are five books he would take to a desert island.
The Moon’s a Balloon
by David Niven, 1971
My mother knew I wanted to be an actor, so she assumed I’d read this memoir by British actor David Niven, but I hadn’t.
