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Nigerian comedian and actor, Mc Lively is undoubtedly one of the most talked about social media comedians in Nigeria at the moment.
The lawyer turned comedian noted that boredom made him dump law for comedy.
Speaking in a chat with The Nation, Mc Lively said:“The boredom is what made me choose comedy over Law, because ordinarily I like Law. Even when I was in school, I really enjoyed studying Law and I wanted to see where that was going to take me. At some point, I was thinking maybe I would combine both but there was no fulfillment in Law. That is why I chose comedy. But the job search is constant for anybody who is in the public sector, and that’s where the character steps in”.
Shedding light on the character he plays in his skits, ‘Barrister Mike’, the funnyman said his experience after law school inspired the character.
“My real life story is not nearly as bad as Barrister Mike’s own. Barrister Mike’s own is much more exaggerated. It stems from when I just finished Law School and I was serving in Ibadan, I was a brilliant student and, of course, I had the tendency to be a brilliant lawyer, but I didn’t find fulfillment in Law. It started from the day we finished the Bar finals. When we finished, I didn’t feel complete. I felt like this is not how I am supposed to feel when I finish such a great course. Then the result came out and everybody was jubilating and I saw the result and I was like so what?
“A few months later, I was serving in Ibadan and they had us do this Law thing where we do research and go to court. But the courts were so boring for me that I literally thought that if I did that for a few more years I was going to die in a courtroom.Before I found the chamber I worked with, I would go round law firms in Mokola, Ibadan looking for work. The ones I went to, most of them said they didn’t have money to pay. But then I told them if I had told them at Law School that I didn’t have money, would they have accepted me? So basically, I went round Ibadan before I got a chamber that was paying me N5,000 per month in 2017.
“At that time, lawyers with five years post score were earning N25,000 per month while the head of chamber was earning N50,000 per month. So even if I was working, was I not still jobless? So what I portray in my character is not only me; what I portray is a lot of Nigerian youths who have gone to school, graduated and have found jobs but still feel like they are jobless because they are not earning as nearly enough as they should. What most people do now is after getting a job, they start searching for other things that they need to sustain themselves. In truth, almost every Nigerian graduate is constantly on the search for a job. Think about it, there is no Nigerian graduate you see, no matter where you see them, they are still looking for one application to make or they want to travel out. Everybody is on a job hunt”.