PLAYING ALONG AT LAUGHING #RainbowTowersComedyFest

Thursday night at the Rainbow Towers had been a much anticipated day among comic enthusiasts. The event was well advertised, you would see adverts of it literally everywhere and the fact that the posters mentioned South African comics coming, in addition to it being a Carl Joshua Ncube production, the hype was incredible. Sadly, I have never been more disappointed!

The show started sometime after 7pm, with an intro from Goliath and Goliath of Carl Joshua. This is when everything went wrong! I had rightly thought Carl was hosting the show; turns out he was hosting/performing all at the same time! Who does that? If he wanted to do his whole set for us why did he not just find someone to host and make himself the headline act? Clearly he craves for attention that much.

Speaking of the headline act, we totally loved. What choice did we have? Almost everything that had been happening before that was just horrible! But before we get to the horrible part, let’s talk about Q a little. He was the underdog, even called himself the David of the show, but just like the last Simuka he killed, with a standing ovation and everything! If you were at the last Simuka that Q was hosting, then you will remember that he started his little thing where if the audience did not like an act, they would call out Q. Funniest thing happened, a couple of times when Carl was on stage, I heard people calling for Q, lol.

Speaking of calling for Q, at first I thought maybe I’m just not getting it, but after hearing those calls, I knew for sure Carl just was not funny. Yes there were laughs here and there, some people even said they had enjoyed the show, but get this, if you have paid $15 for a show, and you do not frequent the country’s comedy clubs so you figure if you are at a comedy show, laughing is a must, and you probably have a phobia of appearing slow, then you will definitely laugh. It’s called playing along at laughing, lol!

Jason Goliath came next after Q and well, there really is not much that can be said about his performance. Then there was Michael K. The first few minutes were a breadth of fresh air. I wasn’t just smiling anymore; I even began to enjoy the show. And then I have no idea what happened, suddenly it was as if we were watching a bad impression of Mutirowafanza! I was so mad at him! How could he do such a thing when we all know very well he’s a destroyer! And then it was time for the headline act – Donovan Goliath.

By this time I was convinced the show wasn’t going to get any better. And unexpectedly, he had me gasping for air! He got around to dissing black women’s horrible poor quality weaves and how they love to twang - the room was just filled with crazy genuine laughter! We had definitely left playing along. You just had to love the way he got to talking about how Africans cannot sing about certain things and get away with it.

            “Imagine an Afrikaner singing‘I woke up in a new Bugatti’. It just wouldn’t go. It   would sound      more believable if he sang I woke up in a new blue bakkie!”ha ha

 And then he concluded with an impression of a sort of fictional young Madiba who had swag and rapped for votes. I mean come on! Imagine Madiba with tattoos, rapping and being all gangster! Lol, Donovan got nerve!

And then the show was over. If the Host had been funny, the show would have been AMAZING, unfortunately the host butchered what would have been a perfectly good show, Nxa!