Posted on Aug 22, 2012
Stand-up
comedy as we all know is one of the entertainment sectors which is now
gaining grounds in Ghana. Over the past few weeks, so many comedians
came out blaming and accusing people for their poor performance. DKB Has
also added his voice to this issue. OMG!Ghana’s readers will admit that
most of the comedy events held here in our country is headlined by
foreigners mostly Nigerians. From the likes of Basketmouth, Okay
Bakaasi, ‘I Go Die’ and many more. DKB has blamed Ghanaians for the failure of comedy in Ghana. He said
Ghanaians don’t promote their own artistes but rather wants to see more
of Nigerian comedians. He explained the reason why most of our comedy
shows are headlined by Nigerians saying
‘ is an individual from Nigeria who organizes his show and he started
with Nigerians and they were accepted by Ghanaians and since the person
also wants money he has to bring more of them since they are the once
our people want.’
He further added that a Ghanaian doesn’t want his fellow Ghanaian to
shine. Ghanaians have this mentality that when a Nigerian is coming on
stage he is going to make him laugh, but when he hears a Ghanaian name
he asks himself is this guy going to make me laugh ? He was at 1011
laughs and when his name was mentioned somebody asked ‘who is that’? All
these things discourage a person. He further asked for Ghanaians
support for our comedians.
Ghana’s rep to Big Brother Stargame added that he doesn’t need
Ghanaians support anymore because he has gone beyond our support . He
explained that by saying what he has learnt from Ghanaians is that, the
more you wait for their support, the more you grow older and the next
thing you realize is that you are dead. A few Ghanians support him but
he likes it.
He advised his fellow comedians that since Ghanaians don’t support
their career they shouldn’t sit idle but do their research and organize
their small shows and they will get to wherever they want to reach.
“Ghanaians don’t laugh at the auditorium but will go to their various homes and laugh there”
When asked if the problem was because Ghanaian comedians are not
creative, he said if anybody says that then he doesn’t know what he is
saying because Ghanaian comedians are creative. They don’t use black
berry, whatsapp and internet jokes but they use things around them to
prove how creative they are. Nigerians laugh at their own-selves. They
use their own problems to crack jokes for a person to laugh and nobody
complains but when a Ghanaian does same, they will start blaming him for
using a public issue. All these are because they don’t want to promote
their own product.
He concluded that he will be celebrating his birthday in no time called DKB @ 27.
source: omgghana.com
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