The National Theatre roared with laughter and excitement at the 1006
Comedy and Music Show which was organized by Charterhouse last Saturday.

All the comedians, including the 350 kilograms Lepacious Bossey, Okey Bakassi,  Julius De Agu Gordon as well as Ghana's own Yaw Sakyi, mounted the stage  at various times to out-do one another, and treated the audience to several bouts of hilarious jokes bothering on every day issues.

The hi-life music from the Shabo Crew Band did an excellent job in entertaining people, helping to calm their nerves after struggling hard to get into the theatre.

Alle-lu-ya! Mind you this is not a preaching session in church; it is the term that the audience identified Gordon with, the internationally acclaimed comedian who was the first to mount the stage. Dressed smartly in a black suit with a nice black shirt to match, he came very prepared with several jokes up his sleeve, and had everybody laughing with his first few words.

Gordon, upon spotting two white people on the front row, was quick to note that Ghanaians have a lovely way of welcoming foreigners by calling them oburoni. But back in Nigeria where he comes from, especially the Niger Delta, they would have kidnapped the whites and asked for huge ransoms.

He therefore continued by counting the whites within his reach and multiplying them in Naira (the Nigerian currency) terms. This threw the audience into uncontrollable laughter.

He went on to share his experience in the United Kingdom. According to him, when he first visited that country and arrived at the Heathrow Airport an Immigration Officer, who was obviously British, told him to stand aside, even though he (Gordon) was clad in designer wear from head to toe.

He felt so irritated by the officer's decision that he decided to pretend not to understand the English language and so he answered every question from the officer in a funny language, like that which some religious groups refer to as 'tongues’.

When he was asked his purpose of coming to the UK, he claimed he responded in his formulated language, thus there was the need for an interpretation from a fellow Nigerian. This was not fruitful because the interpreter could not understand what he was saying.

He said this went on for a while until the Immigration officer said "because you don’t understand English and cannot answer basic questions for security reasons, I am sorry you have to be sent back home”. At this point he began to recollect all the hustle and bustle he had to go through at the High Commission before acquiring his visa, and the fortune he spent on buying his ticket.

He decided to snap out of his invented language and so he told the officer in English that he could understand and even interpret the English language, if only he would not be deported to Nigeria. This indeed made the audience laugh, some in near tears.

When Yaw Sakyie, host of ‘Run Down’, an entertainment show on TV Africa, mounted the stage, many in the audience wondered at his reason for being there, since he was not known to be either a comedian or a musician.

But he made his intentions known immediately after mounting the stage, and proved that not only was he good at hosting his TV shows, but he was also a force to reckon with regarding comedy.

The long applause he received after his exit followed his rendition of Agya Koo’s joke about the pastor and his wife who went to the church to worship, despite the fact that the pastor was having a lover in his church, leading to an encounter between his wife and his lover during prayers.

The 350 kg lady, Lepacious Bossey was bitter about the fact that although Ghanaians are experts in welcoming foreigners, her welcome was very unpleasant and unfair because she was being branded 350 kg, when in reality she weighed 348 kg ‘only’.

Lepacious Bossey, who claims to be a lawyer, asked men why they cherish big houses, fat bank accounts, drive in huge vehicles among other things, but were only interested in skinny ladies instead of big curvy ones like her. There was a prolonged laughter. She continued with other interesting jokes which charged the audience.

Then Okey Bakassi, who had been part of various comedy shows in the country, also gave the audience a lot to laugh about as he dished out jokes on various issues.

The problem the driver had with his boss was that anytime the boss went for meetings, he stayed behind to have lunch and returned with his belly oversized. After sitting in the air-conditioned car, he began to snore after 10 minutes and in the process gave off bad air.

This went on for so long that the driver decided to retaliate, and so on one fine afternoon when he, the driver, took his boss to his meeting, he went for lunch and ordered two plates of beans with four eggs and took in Andrews Liver Salt to wash it down.

Later, while driving his boss, who was asleep as usual, he (driver) had nature’s call and could not help but pollute the air in the car. This immediately woke up his boss from his nap. Right away he ordered the driver to turn off the air-conditioner and roll down the windows for fresh air. The driver became happy because he had been able to ‘show’ is boss too.

Julius D’Agu’s jokes were too funny and made the audience respond over convulsions of laughter.

The show in general went very well, except the unnecessary remarks by the MC, George Quaye (‘Aboagye’), who kept praising the men among the audience and at home for securing the women, a comment which most of the people disagreed to.