‘NJUGUSH IS NOT FUNNY AT ALL’ JUA CALI EXPLAINS

Celebrated Kenyan musician Jua Cali took to his Twitter account to call out comedian Njugush.

In a series of tweets, Jua Cali said Njugush is not funny and comedians need to study the art of comedy, “Njugush ni boy wangu but hakuna comedian hapo not funny at all! We studied music before tuanze kuifanya professionally, ma comedians wetu never studied comedy as an art form wengi wamerukia tu ka a form of hustle bure tu.”

Adding that comedians have to be constantly creating new content, “Nimekua a huge fan of stand up comedy as an art form ever since nione the great Richard Pryor kwa ma video tapes hii ni kitambo. Then Eddie Murphy came along and killed it on the stand up stage. Kuna similarities mob but now the difference between musicians na stand up comedians ni sisi wanamziki we create the content mara moja and we can perform it on stage hundreds of times but with comedians you have to be constantly creating coz ukirudia joke mara mbili si joke tena.

Standup comedian has to have a huge team of dope writers ndio special ikue na structure, examples of dope writers wale nawajua ni YY na Butita(I am the one who encouraged @eddiebutita to do 1hr specials when we were on a flight to Dubai a few yrs back).”

Jua Cali also said comedians should be clever and witty, “Kucreate content ya 1hr constantly si rahisi lazima ukue na team noma karibu. Stand up comedian should be very clever, witty and think jokes on the fly to engage the crowd and also have a certain swagger kwa stage, kujirusha kwa hii art form you should study the greats kama The Kings of Comedy kwanza Bernie Mac, Steve Harvey, Martin Lawrence, Jamie Foxx na Dave Chappelle wale ni ma beast kwa stage!

Stand up comedians should always tell story za mtaani hizo stories will forever remain king! Na msiogope kutumia curse words hio ndio ha ha ya stand up sasa. Wacha nisibonge mob I will big up all the comedians pushing the art form e.g the @comedyriots.”