Justice Nuagbe, a Nigerian comedian popularly called Ushbebe, discloses that being a comedian is a tough job while revealing how he gets his jokes from his dreams.
The comic act stated this in a chat with HipTV when speaking on how he creates timeless jokes. He mentioned that he’s a spontaneous comedian who can freestyle with things happening around him for over 40 minutes.
The funny man added that he gets his comedy inspirations from his dreams, stating that when he dreams, he wakes up and does a voice recording of the joke to further fine-tune it for production.
Ushbebe stressed that he was serious about getting comedy inspiration from dreams. In the video seen by WithinNigeria, he brought out his phone to play a voice note of a joke he recorded when he just woke up.
“I can wake up at 3 AM, what I see in my dream, I turn it into a joke—that’s how difficult this work is,” Ushbebe said.
He continued, “it’s a hard job. To create a timeless joke, you could either script them, work towards performing them, imagine them, and if it happens on stage for you and you can kill it at a time, it is fine.”
“Timeless joke creation is particular to how your presentations are as a comedian. Me, I just want to flow with the time, I just try to stay timeless,” he added.
The comedian’s annual show, the chronicles of Ushbabe 15: the Vaccine Edition, is scheduled for July 25, 2021 at the Eko Hotels and Suites.