THAT’S HOW WE HEARD THAT SKIT MAKING WAS NOW THE NEW OIL WELL

So early 2021, I and two of my friends, we spent two weeks at another friend’s house in the island, who is a skit maker — a pretty popular skit maker.

The excitement was crippling, I have always known that I wasn’t a very skilled dancer, but you see acting, I sabi act die!

The thought of becoming a popular comical character, with millions of followers and subscribers got me hyperventilating with ecstasy.

What will my stage name be again, ehen — Skanna.

We got to this person’s house and he welcomed us with open arms, he was a very close mate to our third friend, and already knew why we had come.

We started shooting skits o, back to back to back.

We must have made millions from those skits because them funny pieces! so we kinda expected the guy to at least crease our pockets with some cash, as upcoming millionaire skitmakers.

But our guy didn’t drop shishi, Infact at the time, we were funding the bills and itinerary.

Until one evening like that, guy said he thinks we should accompany him to go see Baba.

The way he said the Baba didn’t sound like it was an elder from his family or an uncle somewhere, it sounded like the Baba that used to live and operate from the bush side (You know what I mean).

“Which Baba?”

And he took one look at us and started shrieking in uncontrollable laughter.

“The Baba wey dey help me push my main hustle na. I need to see him, e don reach like three months now since I last collect.”

He alternated from pidgin to proper English and back to pidgin.

“I no understand.”

I feigned a lack of understanding and asked to be sure.

“Do you mean that the Baba helps you record comedy videos? Or oh! You mean the skit you want to shoot involves the settings in a shrine?”

He looked at me, and then at the others and vituperated.

“Who be this one self wey dey only like to speak English like professor.”

No one answered.

I didn’t reply also, but I knew my skit making career had come to untimely end.

Imagine me, the comical Skanna.

E pain me die, e pain me o!

So this stupid guy dey find people wey him go initiate into yahoo?

Your papa!

But that reaffirmed what I had always known.

Envy these TV personalities at your own peril.

If you think say na skit money dey buy those expensive Benz, then you can equally believe that Tinubu knows how to state ‘Ohms Law’ or how to solve quadratic equation.

©️ Noel Ijezie