These guys are hilariously funny and its only fair that Flavour lets you find out a bit more about them. So here it is…
Where did you grow up and what was it like?
Mo-I had a good upbringing really; I grew up in South London, Camberwell/East Dulwich. It was good, it wasn’t the worst place to live or the best place, I came out alright, no criminal record, so I guess I did something right. In school I liked to talk a lot in class, buss joke, thing is I am clever so I used to get the work done, but in hindsight if I just would have done the stuff before I could have got more work done. KG- You could have been a Doctor fam, if you weren’t talking and bussing jokes! (Laughs)
Mo-I was a class clown, and I had the teacher laughing, if the teachers laugh I guess I’m doing my job right.
KG-I was brought up in Brixton, I tried to be a bit of a bad breed, but I wasn’t good at it, I tried to be bad at school, weren’t good at that either, had to do my GCSES all over again in College. I was a class clown as well, my teacher used to call me ‘skin teet boy.’ I was always smiling, and I didn’t even have good teeth. I used to buss joke and my friends would all get A’s, I didn’t realise they were doing their work though, when we picked up our grades it didn’t make sense, I didn’t tell my parents my grades, I just told them I’m going college. My family’s really really bush, we grew up on proper hard Nigerian food, and I didn’t taste my first Yorkshire pudding until I went to Uni, our meat, you gotta close your eyes because you know when it just splashes back because of the pepper and it’s just tough, it’s not like Caribbean meat where it just comes off the bone.
How did you get into comedy?
Mo- I finished Uni, I was like what am I gonna do from here, I wanted to go drama school, but I thought let me see what this comedy thing is like. Summer of 2009, I graduated and I was just doing comedy shows every other weekend hollering at some promoters and Uni’s asking if I could perform. It just kicked off from there. I got booked at Sunday show, first time performing there I was really nervous. It went down really well, I was shaking though! Second time I went there it was the ‘Your Mama’ competition; I thought this would be a great way for me to get my name out there. I won and everything took of from then
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Mo- Loads of people remembered me from that show; I also was doing other shows with like Richard Blackwood, I was meeting a lot of the comedians I was always watching, so within a short space of time I was performing every week. Then I got the opportunity to be the host of the Sunday show, and this is what it is now.
KG- I work with this youth group part of like a church group called Reaching Higher and we put on workshops, and then randomly my sister in law was like can you entertain a crowd quickly, went out did it and I got a good response. I thought hmm maybe I should do comedy; I did Sunday Show, same feeling, shook! I then did a few other things, went back to Sunday Show, did a solid set and then I became part of the family. The Shadrack stuff online boosted my profile big-time too.
If you weren’t doing what your doing now, what would you be doing?
Mo- Maybe something in sport, I used to play football seriously. I also like music, I wouldn’t say I would be an MC, when I went to school Grime was the thing, I was the MC back then that used to say “ ’I’m on dis ting, and I’m on dis ting, I slap that girl and I was dat ting, I said I’m on dis ting!” (Laughs) I’d go home and right my lyrics –“I’m on dis ting x8, yhyh” (Laughs). I remember when I was in music class in school I loved them key boards that had them effects, and you press the button, and it’s like “Huuuggggh!” “DJ” “Huuuggggh Go Go Go DJ!” “C’monnnn” (Laughs)
KG- I thought I might be a singer, No! I realised I couldn’t be a singer; I think I would have been a Fireman. Sometimes I thought yeah I would like to be a Fireman.
Which comedians from the UK would you say are your favourite?
Mo-I like to laugh I’m always the guy you say ‘your still laughing about that’… I like people like Peter Kay, Michael McKintyre, Lee Evans, they’re the people I pay to go see. It’s amazing! You see like 20,000 people laughing at one guy, and its mixed people, black, white, Asian. They talk about everyday things, like when a £1 drops out the 50p and the 20p can’t keep up, it’s simple comedy that will get you. Of course I gotta rate Richard Blackwood he’s like a pioneer; he’s like the Wiley of comedy.
KG-I would say Michael McKintyre, Peter kay, as well, oh and Frankie Boyle
So what you up to?
KG- I’m aiming to get our own show on Channel4, luckily through everything I’m doing people have contacted me in regards to jumping on some movie stuff and things like that. I should be in a film in 2012, summer. The career is just blossoming, it’s crazy. I remember when I first did Sunday Show I thought I was gonna have a Range next week, but it’s looking like a Nissan Bluebird! (Laughs) Don’t judge me. I’m doing a set at a SN1 party, gonna go there in a bullet proof vest! Stab proof jacket! Bullet proof New Era, don’t do me a RIP T-shirt!
What does the future hold for you Mo?
Mo- I just really wanna raise my profile, and keep performing up and down the country, London’s kinda spoilt for choice, there’s places like in Scotland where they don’t get much. I wanna perform outside of the UK and get my name known.
KG- I wanna cross over, I’ve done a lot with the urban seen already, I really wanna be that guy, I wanna be at the Apollo. If I don’t make it, don’t judge me (Laughs)
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