Daliso Chaponda on What People Think of Africa | Universal Comedy

but am i the only farner clap your hands on the foreigners in the room clap yes sir where are you from a man you're from southeast london i said are there any foreigners and you're like yeah i'm from london were you just taking the piss or are you where where are you from before southeast london your parents are from jamaica but you're not so why did you clap you thought i meant are there any other black people i could see the other black people i mean any other foreigners [Applause] they sat him near the front so that i would not feel alone okay are the real foreigners yes sir where are you from where are you from you're from ghana what's your name tuesday wednesday thursday gun ganes have like seven names what sunday you see what you said at least they never forget and this lady next to you is that your visa what's this [Laughter] i'm looking for one just like it don't worry i understand i understand [Applause] thank you for coming ghana thank you for coming and then there were other any other foreigners yes where are you from from jamaica see real jamaica excellent excellent are you both jamaican no jamaica and and nigeria oh interesting cool he got very defensive i won't worry now you've got to understand i know why he was defended because you've got to understand that africans have to live with a lot of stereotypes it's part of the problem is that people read what they read about africa and they think it defines the whole nation and so you get weird things like i was going to do a gig in kenya and people say to me oh don't go to kenya there's boko haram there they'll blow you up oh one day nobody blew me up it was beautiful country was lovely then i was going to south africa people like oh don't go to south africa it's violent i went there wasn't violent i was fine i get self-violence none of it affected me i was happy came back i was going to nigeria and someone said don't go to nigeria they're crooks they'll rob you i went there they were crooks they robbed me [Applause] some uncomfortable people are saying always here offended no no don't worry it's like they know it's like nigerians are the scousers of africa by the way you understand it's a stereotype we all just laugh at it we're all just laughing at her it's all right well thank you so much for coming thank you so much for coming all of you but this is what i'm saying is some people were upset because i'm african because i'm malawian now do we know much about malawi yeah some of you do you don't know much about milan okay who doesn't know anything about malawi a few of you little country tiny country middle of africa very poor number one export babies for madonna it's very difficult to base an economy on just madonna at least if we had lady gaga elton john it's just madonna now i've done a lot of jokes about the babies which she's adopted she's adopted four and it leads some people to think i'm criticizing it they'll say oh you don't think she should have adopted those babies no i think it's awesome actually because not only did she adopt babies she gave millions of pounds to malaria and orphanages and yet despite that a lot of malawians are a little bit ambivalent every time she tries to get a baby she's had to do lots of paperwork go through the court and i'm like what are you doing malawi she could switch to zimbabwe or can you we need to make it as easy as possible for madonna to adopt the babies we need to start sending her catalogues these are our cutest babies madonna we need to develop an app she can just scroll through all the babies whenever she likes one swipe right we can call it kinder no but adoption is an amazing thing it's a legitimately amazing thing i don't understand why sometimes people don't tell their children that they were adopted i have a friend who only found out when he was 14. like it was something to be ashamed of it's an opposite it's something to be proud of because if you are adopted you're one of the only children on the planet who knows 100 your parents actually wanted you they filled out forms they know unplanned adoptions i have never heard that hangover story can you imagine meet someone sunday morning he's got a headache he's like oh no me and the wife got so drunk last night oh we ended up at an orphanage we got two and i'm also aware that this could be my 15 minutes of fame because i did a reality show people got very excited about me but a lot of people do a reality show a few years later you don't know what's up with them this could be it but i'm not going down without a fight yeah i got plans man i'm filming dvd also i've decided i think i need to do all the other reality shows what the hell i'll do love island i could find love and citizenship if i really want to be famous i need to do celebrity big brother who watches celebrity big brother yeah a few of you watch it oh not so many anymore it's gone downhill hasn't it it used to be great now it's just repetitive i've got ideas to reinvigorate it give it to me to run instead of doing big brother next year with celebrities what if we did big brother the religious fanatic edition wouldn't you tune in for that get a couple of jehovah's witnesses a couple of mormons they can fight over the front door but they're not actually fanatics i think for the second season we raised the game and we filled the house with members of isis come on wouldn't you tune in for that fill it with members of isis and then starve the and every morning all you give them is bacon and booze see who the first is to break and i got a fascinating reaction because most of you laughed a few of you weren't sure that joke is only offensive to members of isis unless you're a member of isis should be fine i kid but of course this was something which i discovered during british cartel is i've been a comedian in little comedy clubs in the uk for years little comedy clubs you know 50 people 60 people coming and in the comedy clubs of the uk anything goes you can talk about anything so i went from this to doing primetime tv and discovered apparently i'm really controversial i was like really i did that thing you should never do i went online and i watched the youtube videos and then i looked down and i read the comments and it's just people like insulting you and stuff like that and arguing but most often people were saying oh my god he's so non-pc he's so controversial can you believe the things that africans said oh my god oh how does he get away with it he's so non-pc he's so controversial and i was like really i never thought of myself that way i'm not like you know roy chubby black or something i never saw myself as controversial so i was like these people they don't know what controversial is i ignored them and then i did the semi-finals of britain's got talent and then i started getting hate mail and it was over one joke now for those of you who didn't watch it essentially the situation was a lot like this the crowd was like 90 white and i was black i mean yeah i'm still i'm i'm and your black person on stage white audience 200 years ago this would have been an auction now i did this joke which is not it's not even a massively original observation every black person has considered what their life would have been like back in the days of slavery i also thought it wasn't going to shock anyone because i thought we had all agreed in the uk that slavery was a bad idea i thought you could find the most right-wing person in the country some member of the national front with a union jack tattooed to his face and you could ask him hey how about we bring back slavery and even he would go look i want them out of my country i don't need to own one i thought we had consensus but out of nowhere the pro-slavery people started sending me angry messages i got messages like well if you don't like the slavery history go back to africa monkey man and i was like this man does not grasp how slavery worked was not a go back kind of situation i had another person approach me on the streets and said oh you should know there was slavery in africa long before the europeans came so don't blame us huh i i checked i checked on wikipedia and oh he was right there around 4 000 slaves in africa before the europeans came they showed up and cranked it up to 60 million they found a corner store turned into a tesco superstore oh but the angriest message i got shocked me because i did not know you could get this angry at a stranger like maybe somebody who has you know cheated on you you could not as much rage but no somebody sent me a message which i'm going to read you because i was stunned that somebody could get this angry at a stranger okay so i got this on facebook facebook personal message and i didn't expect it because most of my facebook at the time was people saying good luck in the finals good luck good luck we'll be rooting for you then suddenly i open you and your father you no hello he just went straight into the abuse i don't want to lose a potential fan and i figured maybe he's been watching too much rap music he thinks he got to talk to people by saying yo what's up mofo yo yo so i just said thank you you should put that to music you'd make a good rapper he didn't like that he said don't you have a beer we'll give you ass mother your small mother i'll you like a dumbass broke i said that does not rhyme at all you

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Id: 96eHQeyRLCc

Length: 13min 5sec (785 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 16 2022