Klint Da Drunk excites revellers

Jul 30, 2013

Watching Nigerian funny man Klint Da Drunk’s skits leaves you wondering how he manages to pull off his act as a drunk.


By Steven Odeke
 
Watching Nigerian funny man Klint Da Drunk’s skits leaves you wondering how he manages to pull off his act as a drunk.

He’s a teetotaller and a decent Christian at that, but how he comes on stage with twisted oily facials and a drawled tongue typical of drunks I have known leaves you wondering whether he doesn’t sip a drop of liquor or two.
 
But as he performed last Friday evening at The Hub, Nakumatt Oasis Mall on the ‘Pablo And The Continental Comedian’ show, I only wished he stuck to acting the drunk.

Sometimes, along his skits, he forgot we wanted him stupid-drunk, and started sounding sober and intelligent. The crowds would get lost and start asking what he meant. But his spontaneity would bail him out and deliver swift jokes that drove the crowds into laughter.
 
He joked about Ugandan and Nigerian police, took a jibe at famous actress Patience Ozokwo who, in her movies, tastes her husband’s poisoned food and doesn’t die, yet when the husband tastes it, he dies immediately. We laughed. He also hit at Nigerian artists and drug dealers. Our comedians who performed were good too, but I found Daniel Omara the most outstanding for the sheer fact that, he was performing for the elite crowds that understood him.
 
I have watched Omara before struggling to impress the non-elites with his witty and brain-toying jokes.  But last Friday, his jokes and narratives on Indians and high school days had the crowds in merriment.

Mendo “Museveni” Segujja is just as good as his middle-name. When he acted a small skit of president Museveni, rolling his eyes like the big man, the crowds died. But apart from that he was not really funny.  I only laud him for starting to take on hard topics like death. Our comedians should pick a leaf that, what’s funnier is a joke drawn from hard-topics like death and politics.
 
Prince Emmah perhaps wasn’t paying attention when Pablo told a joke about Indians giving discount on everything, because when he got on he started telling the same joke. We just looked at him.

And I think Richard Tuwangye is better as a sketch-comedian than a stand-up comedian. He should speak less and do more acting on his material. Pablo was the emcee of the night.
 

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