Popular comedian AY has claimed that he has over a 100 pair of shoes in his closet and he is bent on acquiring more.
"I love shoes. Though I have over 100 pairs, I still want to buy more and more.
"All
I need is to find something that I like; it might be something similar
to what I have in my closet, but I would still buy it. I don't repeat
shoes often so that people won't say I am going broke. If you see me
repeat a shoe and believe I don't have any other one and the best you
can do is talk about it, I see you as an arm-chair critic. If you have
an opportunity to go into my closet, you will be looking for an
opportunity to withdraw your statement."
The happy father of one,
who disclosed this in a recent interview with PUNCH further discussed
his brand and issues with entertainers like Jim Iyke, Tonto Dikeh who
find his jokes offensive.
"A lot of people still get it wrong when
it comes to understanding that comedians are jokers. It is quite
unfortunate that people are taking comedians too seriously and taking
politicians as jokers. There are lots of things we hear about
politicians and we say they are jokes but when comedians crack jokes
that are meant to be humorous, make people laugh, people take the
comedians seriously. I think it is an issue of priority. Because of the
way I mimic people, a lot of people before now used to tell me that the
day Chris Okotie or Obahiagbon would catch me, I would be in trouble.
The
truth is that we make these people more popular by talking about them.
We are social commentators. Gone are the days when comedians would go
out there and talk about how lions are chasing monkeys. Nobody is going
to laugh. People need to relate to the situation around them. People
compare us with our counterparts abroad, they can talk about their
presidents. An Obama for example would laugh about it and when he has
the opportunity to go on stage, he talks about that comedian and makes
reference to what the comedian said. He might even create his own
version and life goes on."
Lending a voice to the recent
controversial 'rape joke' cracked by Comedian, Basket mouth on facebook,
AY said "The joke that my colleague shared was an existing one that had
been there for a while. Forget the fact that he came out to champion it
and even put it on Facebook; a joke is a joke. These are realities that
people have not come to terms with. Comedians did not invent rape, so
if I talk about an existing situation in the country, I am calling the
attention of those in authority to the problem so that they can take
care of it.
As I said, comedians are social commentators. The
comical part of it, you can just act and re-enact. His tweet does not
mean that he is a rapist or does anyone have a record that Basket mouth
is a rapist? For a fact, he was talking about a topical situation. For
instance, he said that in America, when you take a girl out on a date,
day one, this is what happens. Day two, this is what happens but here in
Nigeria, you spend this amount of money on day one, two, three and the
girl is not forthcoming. The next thing is maybe the guy wants to go and
take the girl by force. It is also a message for girls who always want
to be collecting without paying. If I were a girl, I would know that if
I collect on day one, I wouldn't do so on day two, so that things would
not result in violence. Why can't people see it from that perspective
rather than castigating a comedian who just cracked a joke.
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