Zimbabwe: Of Vanishing Madzibaba and Flat Jokes

23 August 2014
opinion

No laughing matter

When people do not get your joke, maybe it is because it is not funny. So we are not sure if low attendances at promised laugh fests are because of poor organisers or just that people know that the overrated would-be comedian is only popular with people who laugh automatically because they expect not to get the joke anyway. We mean that he seems to be all friends with the likes of Dear Bruce who we believe is currently back home where he sent this clown to get an audience once upon a time. So Dear Bruce was not here to laugh on cue since he does not speak Zimbabwe anyway so cannot be expected to understand the jokes and will laugh whenever he thinks the punch line has been delivered. The people who howl at real jokes on WhatsApp are just so not amused that the poor man has had to brave the heat of the kitchen in an attempt to find something, anything that pays the bills.

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