Politics of laughter
Chippa Legodimo | Monday September 8, 2014 11:05
The Politics of Laughter Comedy show at Westwood International School on Saturday night was classic example of how politics have no boarders. Three comedians used their art to illustrate how during campaign times various politicians would promise the electorate “heaven on earth” and how the poor masses would be easily lured into believing the empty promises. The Liberally Independent Economic Society (LIES) represented by comrade Bambino promised just to increase the budget by changing the word million to billion.
“We shall put a (b) instead of (m) and then we shall improve lives,” Bambino said. The next candidate to take the podium Tulani Tau explained how his party would change even the way young women use social media.
“You see you often see these posts of young women saying home alone, I am not dressed and the door is open, LOL. Our motto is Stop Nonsense and we shall stop this nonsense of people giving too much information on FACEBOOK,” he declared. Another vague promise by comrade Tau is that of ‘bible saving’ because banks use terms credit and debit to cheat customers.
“Saving money in your bible will do because it has so many pages and the other thing a thief would not want to open the bible to get inspiration,” he said. But the show’s funniest man was Charles who posed as a Zimbabwean with ambitions to stand for political office in Botswana.
“One of the things that I will change if you vote me is some setswana words because they create unnecessary conflict. This other day I was in a restaurant and I wanted to buy a chicken.
The waitress was this older woman and I told her ke batla kuku. She was confused and thought I meant something else and see how big she was her chicken was going to be big,” Charles sent the small crowd into stitches of laughter.