Today, we will be ending this analysis which you may have been following from the first installment to the third.

Comedians don’t exist in a vacuum. They are integral part of the society and as such, their businesses too. This is so, hence people react to their jokes sharply or subtly, depending on the type of person somebody is. That clause alone, stamps tacitly that the comedians must have reached out to the audience. For this reason, comedians should be more discerning, so as to know whether their jokes affect a person’s esteem, and, therefore, should avoid such during shows.

Emphasis should therefore not be laid on jokes that are gender insensitive often targeted at women or some predictable wisecracks on the idiosyncrasies of the Yoruba man, Hausa or Igbo man.

It is high time these comedians realized that the yardstick for determining men of class, men who are lettered, enlightened and discerning is the way they treat their women, irrespective of the women’s status and even state of mind.

Like public affairs commentators, they should mirror the society effectively, so as to mould opinions and highlight issues which persons are always scared to discuss, especially in public for reason or reasons best known to them.

It would be of real value for persons to step out of a comedy show be relieved of their burden after some laughter, while at the same time, pondering over the issues raised in the jokes and how to make a positive change.

It is on good source that show boy comedian, Bright Okpocha, massively addressed as Basket Mouth, years ago did what could be described as a creative critique of Bola Tinubu’s health programme, “Jigi Bola”. After his show, many who saw that creative piece, may have concluded quietly that it was something from an ace comedian. Oh yeah! That joke which was capable of fetching him an applause and award too, may have been adjudged too, as simple, creative, and entertaining in all ramifications, no doubt okayed Basket Mouth’s observation of people’s ingratitude to Bola Tinubu’s “Jigi Bola” programme which showed his benevolence to the masses.

Their pitiable ingratitude may have provoked the comedian to wonder aloud if Lagosians were really blind or simply myopic.

The dread-spotting fun poker who ascribed the distribution of free glasses to the victims of eye challenges as a kind gesture, strongly believed would help them to see his wonderful projects in Lagos and applauded them too. But their embarrassing silence forced him to react creatively.

However, this is not to exonerate Basket Mouth from his current penchant for stigmatizing jokes.

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