SATIRE AT ITS CRAZIEST POINT!!! #SIMUKACOMEDYFIESTA

Last night saw the beginning of the first ever Comedy Fiesta in the country – hosted by Simuka Comedy. And to say it was mad crazy fun would be no overstatement!

What did we love most about the show? Most definitely the SATIRE!!! And well, nobody does it better than Doc Vikela! But before we get to that let’s rewind to when the show started. Show started a little later than planned – apparently Simuka had forgotten it was dealing with Africans who on this particular time could be excused if they happened to include Mandela somehow in their reason for being lateJ.

Speaking of Mandela (God rest his soul), the man got so many jabs he could have turned in his casket! And shame on everyone for unashamedly cracking up at the comics’ wicked impressions of the old man!

Madzitatiguru and Gift were the first two open mics and they managed to get the crowd all hyped up that when Shingi went up on stage, the audience could not help but double over with laughter at every turn. What with his poking fun at White people’s dancing and black people’s singing. You just had to laugh at his emphasis on the different types of Black people – the BLACK AMERICAN and the AFRICAN BLACK!!! Lol. Watch out Zim Comic giants! Shingi is coming for you!!! I mean, guy even got a standing ovation!

Did I mention Comrade Fatso was hosting? There is nothing else we can say except that the guy is INSANE!!! Just after Shingi had left the stage, he comes up and says:

“What’s wrong with you Shingi coming up here and talking about what White people can and cannot do. Well let me tell you what white people CAN do! They can live in Borrowdale, they can eat sushi on Sunday...”

By this time we could hardly breathe with laughter. The nerve! Pity he didn’t hear us shouting PFUTSEK!!! from the back, lol. And then it was Doc Vikela’s turn. We need to pause for this one because there was so much energy from the guy it got us exhausted just watching himJ.

He came up to the stage with his signature entrance – dancing to Koffi Olomide’s Lua. Of course the crowd got excited. And then he got around to philosophising about how and why Africans dance the way they do. Apparently, according to the doc; North Africans mostly use their hands to dance because of how they are at the top of the continent (exhibit 1: The Chop My Money Dance), Central Africans use their midsection mostly because they are in the centre (exhibit 2: the rhumba/ndombolo dancesJ). And then Southern Africans were just the best – Zimbabweans especially! Apparently we use our feet mostly. And the sungura came because people were used to riding bicycles and listening to the radio (wireless device would be on the shoulder) ha ha.

Doc is ruthless when he decides to poke fun at popular figures. Dude knows no bounds. Even ZBC, Happiness Muchechetere and a number of ministers were not spared. That is the doc for you. And with that, the show came to an end.  

Tonight, the fiesta moves to the Zim German Society, with Simba The Comic King, Clive Chigubhu and Seb Diesel on the line up. If the first night was that crazy, the second can only reach higher levels of insanity! So let’s make a date eh Africa tonight at 7pm sharp at the ZGS for another night of crazy comedy.