Season 1
The Real Jozi A-Listers is a South African comedy reality parody television series produced by New Vision Pictures which follows comical, fictionalised versions of four "A-Listers" as they go about their often surreal lives in Joburg, South Africa.
This comedy slash reality television slash parody show gathers together four of Mzansi's genuine "A-Listers" - comedian Tol A$$ Mo; comedian and actor Trevor Gumbi; model and actor Masego "Maps" Maponyane and musician Da L.E.S. - for a rollicking small screen ride.
Each of the A-Listers has a backstory which viewers already know - and this is used to create a narrative that mixes fact with fiction.
In the opening episode of The Real Jozi A-Listers, things are already going pear-shaped when Da L.E.S. returns home from a hard-working tour to find that his (actually, his mom's) mansion has been trashed.
Who's the culprit? In the city of gold, nothing shines more than celebrity and status – and Da L.E.S. doesn't have to look far to find the A-Lister who loves to party more than anything else, especially one who is couch surfing because his wife has kicked him out of his home after a run for bread and milk turned into a wild trip to Cape Town (we're looking at you Mr T. Gumbi).
And just like in a wolf pack Tol A$$ Mo's plays the peacemaker – though the other guys don't get it, Mo always has to stop a fight from happening.
In the mix of chaos comes Maps - the reluctant pretty-boy, who is out to shed his beauty-with-no-brains image and prove that there is in fact more to him than meets the eye, and that he's fully deserving of being a Jozi A-Lister!
The series is produced by New Vision Pictures by executive producers Solly Moeng and Damien Brown. The series writers include Lazola Gola, Trevor Gumbi, Mojak, Ryan Warneke, Graeme Swanepoel, Mongezi Mahlangu, Refiloe Maele Phoolo (Cassper Nyovest), Vittorio Leonardi, Mosakisane Lehoko and Monique Nortje.