Nigeria Stand Up Comedy Video Download [REPACK]
Baldomero Cramer
The primary focus of this paper is to apply Discourse Type theory to stand-up comedy. To achieve this, the study postulates two contexts in stand-up joking stories: context of the joke and context in the joke. The context of the joke, which is inflexible, embodies the collective beliefs of stand-up comedians and their audience, while the context in the joke, which is dynamic, is manifested by joking stories and it is made up of the joke utterance, participants in the joke and activity/situation in the joke. In any routine, the context of the joke interacts with the context in the joke and vice versa. For analytical purpose, the study derives data from the routines of male and female Nigerian stand-up comedians. The analysis reveals that stand-up comedians perform discourse types, which are specific communicative acts in the context of the joke, such as greeting/salutation, reporting and informing, which bifurcates into self-praising and self denigrating.
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Basketmouth: The comedian grew up in Lagos where he started his professional comedy career. His real name is Bright Okpocha. Basketmouth is one of the foremost comedians in Nigeria. Many of his jokes are gender-related and sex-related.
As the 16 days of activism to end gender-based violence kicked off on 25 November, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator of the UN system in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, has urged everyone to stand up to ensure dignity and justice for the most marginalised, especially women and girls.
The idea of One Africa is a farce taken too far, and successive Nigerian elites have pandered to this fantasy to the detriment of national interests. The legacy of this pan-African misadventure is a geopolitically weak Nigeria which cannot stand up to for itself and for its citizens
Researches on the significance of voice for the cultural construction of humour are still scarce. Much of the Nigerian society places a lot of value on the paradigm of pele lobi o lako (The masculinity and femininity of sorry). This twin paradigm theorizes that the tone of voice rather than actual words is what depicts humour or vulgarity and offensiveness among interlocutors. This often overlooked paradigm is integral to fostering an egalitarian Africa, hence this study. This paper is set to describe the phonological features of Jibes in Nigerian standup comedy so as to ascertain the ideologies that comedians express in their voice undulations. Data will be drawn from twenty Standup comedy shows of five comedians, namely Basket mouth, Bovi, Seyi Law, Buchi and AY, (four for each). The selection is fairly representative of Southwest, Southeast and South-south, Nigeria. All the comedians speak Pidgin fluently and their ages fall between 22 and 40 years (older Nigerians are rarely found in standup comedy). The texts will be annotated and searched for features such as indigenized exclamations, feminization, lengthening, focus marking and the stylistic use of adverbials as pleas rather than as commands. These features will be analysed, using perceptual, instrumental and taxonomic frameworks.
President Bush Meets with President Obasanjo of Nigeria
Remarks by President Bush and President Obasanjo of Nigeria in a Photo Opportunity
Presidential Villa
Abuja, Nigeria 10:58 A.M. (Local) PRESIDENT OBASANJO: Mr. President -- PRESIDENT BUSH: Here, I'll stand up with you. PRESIDENT OBASANJO: Is that what you want? PRESIDENT BUSH: Oh, absolutely. I want to be over here. (Laughter.) PRESIDENT OBASANJO: It is, indeed, a matter of general honor andpleasure for me to welcome you, Mr. President, to our country, Nigeria.On behalf of all the people of Nigeria, I sincerely extend to you ourwarmest greetings on this historic visit to our continent of Africa, ingeneral, and to Nigeria, in particular. President has generally acknowledged that much has changed in theworld since the end of the Cold War. There's no doubt there is anemerging new world order, with new realities of nations and peoplethroughout the world -- their international outlooks, seek new friendsand confirm old realities in the bid to find fresh places for globalpeace, harmony and security. In this imagined new world order, Mr. President, the rest of theworld acknowledges that the United States of America will remain a keyplayer, politically, economically, and militarily. Thus we appreciateyour visit to our continent as indication that Africa is to be reckonedwith in the emerging world order. We salute your visit to so manyAfrican countries -- four of them -- and now Nigeria, in particular, asan expression that Africa should not be sidelined, or even detachedfrom the -- of the emerging world order. We, in Africa, realize the extent to which we are ultimatelyresponsible for our own development, and that we are the architects ofour fortune or misfortune. Nevertheless, this is also generally truethat hardly any country has transformed its fortunes without externalsupport from friends and well-wishers. That is why we acknowledge withdeepest appreciation the role that the United States has played andcontinues to play, particularly within the G8, in supporting the visionof the New Partnership for African Development, NEPAD. As you are wellaware, Mr. President, NEPAD is our vision, as well as our blueprint formaking our continent great. Through the NEPAD, African leaders have made a commitment to theAfrican peoples and to the world to work together in developing thecontinent by consolidating democracy, good governance, and implementingsuch general social, economic development programs. Implicit in theNEPAD program are all the universal values, such as democracy, humanrights, rule of law, eradication of corruption, conflict resolution,and fight against terrorism. We are hopeful that NEPAD will strengthenAfrica's position in the emerging world order. Here, in Nigeria, we are making bold strides to consolidatedemocracy and reform our government structures, as well as the nationaleconomy. We also have continuing and new regional responsibilities,especially in the area of maintaining security. These areas requireglobal understanding, cooperation and substantial financial support.You will agree with me that sustainable national reforms are central toregional and global transformation and for development. Thank you, Mr. President. PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you, friend. (Applause.) It's my honor, Mr. President, to be here as your guest. Gosh, we'vemet three or four times already. You keep telling me to come to yourcountry -- finally made it. And I'm glad we're here. It's been a --it's an honor. Listen, Nigeria is a very important country on the continent ofAfrica. And because of your forthrightness and your style and yourcommitment, you're a very important leader on this continent. And I'mhonored to be here with you. I appreciate very much your commitment to trade and markets, and welook forward to being an active trading partner with Nigeria. Iappreciate your commitment to regional peace, and we will work withNigeria and ECOWAS on issues such as Liberia. I appreciate very muchyour focus on education, and the United States stands ready to help. But most of all, Mr. President, I appreciate your honesty andopenness and forthrightness when it comes to battling the pandemic ofAIDS. You're truly an international leader on this issue. And theUnited States of America, when Congress acts, will stand side-by-sidewith leaders such as yourself to fight the pandemic of AIDS to savelives. So, Mr. President, it's an honor to be here. I've been lookingforward to this visit for a long time. I appreciate your leadership,and I appreciate your friendship. Thank you very much. (Applause.) Q Mr. President, do you have faith in your CIA Director? PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, I do, absolutely. I've got confidence inGeorge Tenet; I've got confidence in the men and women who work at theCIA. And I continue to -- I look forward to working with them and -- aswe win this war on terror. Q Mr. President -- MR. DICKENS: Thank you, all. Thank you. Q Is the matter over then? Q Mr. Bush, what about -- Q Do you consider the matter over, sir, that -- PRESIDENT BUSH: I do. Q What about Liberia? Is America sending troops to Liberia? PRESIDENT BUSH: The President and I just talked about Liberia, andwe are -- our assessment teams are still in place. We need to knowexactly what is necessary to achieve our objectives. The firstobjective, of course, is for Mr. Taylor to leave the country, which hesaid he is -- do. And I want to thank the President for his leadershipon that issue. It's been a tough issue, but he's led. And the world isgrateful for that. Secondly, we've got a commitment to the cease-fire. And therefore,we need to know exactly what it means to keep the cease-fire in place.Thirdly, we got a commitment to relieve human suffering, and we need toknow what that has required. And so we're still in the process ofassessing. And I told the President we would be active. And thedefinition of that will be made known when we're -- when we understandall the parameters. Q See a decision next week, sir? MR. DICKENS: Thank you, all, very much. Thank you -- PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm not sure yet when, Randy. MR. DICKENS: Pool, let's go. Q Thank you, sir. PRESIDENT BUSH: Thank you. END 11:05 A.M. (Local) Printer-Friendly Version Email this page to a friend Issues
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