Salvado shuts down December edition

Comedy is a hearty pill whose power can tickle you well enough into bouts of laughter. Salvador’s delivery at ‘Funny Bunny Club’ at Wombo Restaurant parking last Thursday got the audience unreservedly cracked up as he served up some self-depicting jokes from his professional, personal and social life that have seen him journey from a telecommunication engineer who’s grateful that luck once smiled his way when he was contacted to be an emcee at an event where he earned more money than he did for a month as an engineer.

And such a call came at a time when he was restlessly searching for a way out of debt; he was in rent arrears, had a girlfriend to impress and more.

And while his fans you’d have wanted to piety him; Salvado didn’t give them a chance to because he flipped the story to a ‘happy-ending’ that allowed him realise that God’s timing was right for him to leave the corporate job and start his trajectory of a fulfilling dicing ‘hustle’ between cracking ribs and emceeing.

The beauty in his comic style is he is a natural at establishing a relationship with the audience and has kept his jokes as organic and relatable as his personality is. He was the last act of the night, and deservedly so to end it on a high.
His performance was preceded by a line-up of comedians- Anne Kansiime, Daniel Omara, Don Andre, Okello Okello, Omukebete and Cotilda Inapo who fused acting, dance and expression to deliver her comic storytelling stage strength.
Andre, real name Andrew Odongo, is the brainchild of the monthly ‘Funny Bunny Comedy Club’, says that its goal is to gradually win hearts of ‘English comedy lovers’, and so far, the audience is positively responding.

He explains, “The ‘Funny Bunny Comedy Club’ is pushing to bring up a new breed of English-speaking comedians while also maintaining the already existing ones. This way comedians have more chances of going international because English is widely understood. Over the years, comedy has run on the stereotype of comedians being obscene and harassing and begging the audience for money which is common in the popularized comedy nights done in Luganda (no offense at all). So, English comedy has slowly lost its identity in Uganda.”
If he went to a comedy night as another reveller, he says he would crack up to a good joke that’s well-delivered with all aspects. Omara is his mentor and favourite local comedian because he’s funny, articulate and smart. The ‘Funny Bunny Comedy Night’ has been running since July last year.