THE #SIMUKACOMEDYFIESTA CLOSES IN STYLE

The past three days have been phenomenal for Hararians who are stand up comedy fanatics! Tuesday night had Doc Vikela and Comrade Fatso; while Seb Diesel, Simba The Comic King and Clive Chigubhu were on the line up for the Wednesday show. Last night now, was a classic finale with Q The Boss, Ntando Van Moyo and Carl Joshua Ncube.

The show started shortly after the set time and just to add a bit of a twist, we had some young guy beat box for us. CHILD GOT SKILLS! He had the whole room ringing with applause – a definite good start it was. Q The Boss was hosting and well, it is no secret we LOVE the guy, and with good reason too. I mean, what’s not to love, when he makes sure you get your money’s worth of a show!

After the two open mics, it was Ntando’s turn to do what he does best on stage – cringe comedy. Cringe comedy is a specific genre of comedy, where the intent is to make you uncomfortable rather than make you laugh. And that is exactly what the brother did. When he got down to talking about sex, politics and popular figures, you could not help but be uncomfortable and yet laugh in spite of yourself.

Oh we are going to miss Simuka because this week has just been amazing! But before we start tearing up already let’s get back to the show shall we. Alright, so Carl Joshua Ncube was headlining the closing show of the #SimukaComedyFiesta! And awesome thing was, he did not disappoint. Everybody loved him, and so did we J for a change.

The guy was all fired up, energy literally oozing out of him, we liked! Everybody was in stitches by the time he got down to talking about how Shona is so not a romantic and cool language. And then when he went:

“Shona was never meant to mix with the English language. You wanna speak in English but the Shona in you just wants to indigenize the conversation.”

We couldn’t help but crack up. And his disses were just insane! Dudu Manhenga, Pokello, Ubert Angel and the ZBC news crew – all where at his mercy and all we can say is EISH yeah!

Unfortunately, the show had to come to an end sometime and it was over just too soon! Even Q didn’t want to go home yet. Because after Carl there was a short open mic session and the beat boxer was called back on stage, sadly all was in vain because the show did end.

The Simuka Comedy Fiesta was AMAZING! We were at every show and we loved it. There better be more shows like this because we feel like we are on comedy drugs now. And the thought of having to wait too long for another show just gets us into premature withdrawal symptoms – literally. Lol.