How are you in comedy?
I feel like comedy i get in my mind. At university, I hosted talent shows as part of the African and Caribbean, and becomes popular on university circuit. After that someone said, “You are a nice one funny Host you should try in standup.” One of my first driats was to KunoJo players, carrying out these songs thank you. But explain these songs made people laugh at even more. I haven’t realized that I’m doing stingup. It was never expected, but the moment I have a taste for it, it was just a palu after another. I have never looked back.
Who has admired when you are first starting?
I remember see Richard Blackwood. Their shows will come the TV quite late and if I took my parents in a good mood, I would have you look at the end. I had to love the wit forsyth. Ronnie Corbett was fun. I was a great of Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin. It’s never been a case of wanting to be them – but I think I was caught in his energy.
What is your show, let me the earthlook up?
The growth in my community, “Let me the earth” means: Let me end or let me get to the point before you cut me. The show is a reflection on my life, coming to this country as a bird passen and all the things that transfer from that.
From the African dancing array to your own trip closely, dance is central to the show. How to intersect the beat with your comedy?
I come from a country where we love dance and amusement. For many, it is a form of escapism, but it is also a deep part of our culture. It is held that explained if, how many to a casy, a club, in church, it’s all the same. They grow, i will listen to all types of music, but mostly congoles, which is full of beat and encourage fierstring. It was always something I wanted to do some of me. It is almost impossible to separate me from music, dance and culture, how did they found a unique way of incorporate in my historic.
When I strict, I thought it was the best dancer in the world. I think it was ready because I believed that you could naturally dance. Then I discovered there was a lot than the dances that have been used. I’ve learned that the hard way.
Do you have any presuma ritual?
You’re welcome. A lot of the time that reflects me to know that I can talk to God. I also have my little stretches before you go out. If you ever look backstage, I move my hips. Maybe I can hear the DJ but usually dance to absolutely not music.
What was one of your favorite legs of all time?
The arena O2 was a significant moment for me, because I had come in ages of age. I felt like I’ve got. I was the first black fit black to title larger stage. It’s been a good moment for me to express, and really repay confidently for a while when the wreck of the black comedy was not turned on stairs of stairs. So, for me, what are you still on my heart.
Any bugbs in the world of the entertainment?
People expect it to be exactly what they see on scene. Most of the time, you’re just gone your day, out with friends oa family, when someone gets you. With me, because they saw me dancing on the scene, is usually “, give us a dance.” No. I’m not rented alone! People assume you are always in a happy mood, jolly mood or ready for crack jokes. And then there is this classic moment when you tell someone that you are an Italian, and I go, “go, then make me laugh.” Mate, if you are a doctor, I don’t want to ask you to operate on me, I am?
Can you remember a gig that is so bad is now fun?
Flava the old city bbc in the white city, a business piles with a few others commici. Would only be a high from the back shows back; that feeling when everything works, no matter the audience. But something goes wrong. I haven’t changed my material or say something different. The audience watched me. The strongest silence I have ever heard. It has just got to go. I remember to think: Just push in the end? Must have come in too much cocky. I finished my set, he said, “That’s my time,” and that has the biggest animated all performance. When bombs that bad, you are going to wonder, Why am I still doing this? I actually considered to get a nine to-five … I thought of my old Tesco work and you were still available.
What’s the best advice you have ever given?
You can only be your best, authentic. Your story is enough. The second-best pieces of advice, on this stage in my life, it is eaten so much greens as soon as possible.
What’s an important lesson you’ve learned from being a stepup and presenter?
The audience wants to win – especially when they come to see you. Even if they just came to see a comedy show where you are one of the act that perform. Ince, with saving, for me, definitely taking a fianna in scalice, because, as Lee Evans, the sweat a lot.