Popular comedian, Fagade Olufemi Ademola better known as Omobaba has averred that stand up comedians are not a threat to the more established comedians.
The funnyman noted that everyone should learn to pass something down to the generation next.
Speaking in a chat with The Nation, he said: ”I don’t think they are threats to us. No, I don’t think so. And yes everyone is online, for now, we cannot continue like this forever. Yeah, you make money online and on and a lot of people are doing that, a lot of people are making money online. It’s just your passion, it is just what you’re passionate about or just what you feel like doing. That’s when you will know the difference about people that are pressured into doing something that they don’t really like to do, but they just want to do it because everybody’s doing it, and people don’t know what is right to do that they just want to follow suit. It does not cost anything to host a show in a year, even without sponsor, we will get sound and we will run but I mean, it’s just what are you passionate about? I’m passionate about growth. Somebody saw me, somebody encouraged me and that’s Ali Baba. So I should do the same for people.
“ Everybody should learn to pass something down to the generation next. I told them we started from the lowest and we move straight to the highest. So you discover a talent, the next thing is you are on the big stage and it is not supposed to be like that, in a developed country. We discover a talent and develop the talent at comedy clubs, you can do comedy club for 20 years 15 years before you will get to the mainstream and they can perform in the freaking world”.