Basket mouth reveals he is a very shy person
Written by MaxFM on September 5, 2018
Nominated recently for the Annual South African Savanna Comics’ Choice Awards (SCCA), veteran comedian Basket mouth revealed some interesting facts about the nomination and himself. The popular comedian gave a brief about how he became a comedian.
According to him, his love for comedy was inspired by Eddie Murphy and his role in ‘Coming to America’. At that time, he did not even know that the American actor was also a stand-up comedian. Even from the movie, Basket mouth had derived a sort of calling that pulled him into the profession.
Given that he already knew where his passion lies, Basket mouth said that he had an early start which dated as far back as his days at the University of Benin and even before then. He also touched on the feeling of satisfaction he derived from the act of making people laugh.
He said:
“So when I started doing comedy I did not know I was going to be popular or famous, this is new to me I’m a very shy person, I was just doing it because I enjoy making people laugh, I was doing it for free, the first time I charged for a performance is because I was hungry and someone said that the people that brought would pay you. In my mind I was like oh them dey pay? {laughs} so when you enter into that space you realize that there are some things that you have to let go off you can’t start a full time comedy career and be doing other things on the side so you have to let go of everything and you have to just step in, if you fail you fail, if you win you win.”
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