Comedy in Nigeria is a old as a Nigerian man, to me comedy started the day you discover that you are one, therefore, nobody can claim the father of comedy in Nigeria though not as a business.
Comedy is as old as man and comedians are always with us. In our world suffused, bemused and impregnated by Neanderthal bellicosity, scorching poverty, sanguinary proclivities, leadership inertia, chauvinism, tribal jingoism, religious extremism, mind-boggling hatred, saber rattling, genocide, psychotic corruption, horrendous rapes, ritual murders, ludibrastic cluelessness, planlessness and lovelessness, etc. We can water down our feelings through comic relief characters and comedians who use satires, sarcasms, allegories, lampoonery, pantomimes, onomatopoeias, recondite gesticulations with religious, political, tribal, socio – economic connotations and undertones to laugh at ourselves.
Let me quote Mr. BOBSON GBINIJE, a social critic, wrote from Warri, Delta State; said "It is also a truism that the comedian gave a joke which looked harmless, but in a actual fact, if a critic or journalist had written an article on “Nigeria, waste management and leadership inertia”, it would have attracted detention and or verbal or physical flagellation. Comedy is a way of laughing at our all-embracing inadequacies and weaknesses as individuals and as a nation"...
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