Teju Babyface Show: Beating the odds
Onoshe Nwabuikwu
The Teju Babyface Show on Silverbird Television is hosted by comedian, Teju 'Babyface' Oyelakin. Going by the previous attempts by comedians to present shows on TV, I'd have given this programme a miss. I had more or less given up on watching something that would be actually funny, a show which would mix the right amount of humour/comedy/politics/entertainment and still end up interesting to watch.
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I remember a comedian who shall remain nameless (as this is a New Year) presenting a show which was hardly funny. It appeared as if the comedian saw the show as 'awoof' or 'osho-free' and didn't want to bother himself about a show people hadn't paid to watch. So, he stinted on his humour and generally threw his weight around. Then, there were those shows where so called professional comedians couldn't even do a half decent impersonation.
Surely, you do get my drift now. So, let's not waste more time on what wasn't and gush over what is. Where many have failed, Teju Babyface has succeeded in producing not just a funny show, but a show that acquits itself favourably on other counts.He has a Sketch as a poltician/cum governor with Stella Damascus as his perenial interviewer .And the interview with Sunny Ade is a classic Representation of Old School Wisdom lol !
The best part for me is the ease and seeming effortlessness of Teju Babyface as presenter, interviewer, comedian, etc. As an interviewer, he keeps his focus by managing to get his guests to loosen up. He's managed to get Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa to relive her former life as member of a band by rapping on air! Jay Z she isn't, but it was just the kind of let-your-hair-down fun we do need TV for. He also got ex-international football star, Segun Odegbami, dancing to King Sunny Ade's song -the show's theme song. And for those of us who missed Odegbami's 'Mathematical' days, his 'moves' sure showed he still has 'it'.
Oyelakin. Going by the previous attempts by comedians to present shows on TV, I'd have given this programme a miss. I had more or less given up on watching something that would be actually funny, a show which would mix the right amount of humour/comedy/politics/entertainment and still end up interesting to watch.
I remember a comedian who shall remain nameless (as this is a New Year) presenting a show which was hardly funny. It appeared as if the comedian saw the show as 'awoof' or 'osho-free' and didn't want to bother himself about a show people hadn't paid to watch. So, he stinted on his humour and generally threw his weight around. Then, there were those shows where so called professional comedians couldn't even do a half decent impersonation.
Surely, you do get my drift now. So, let's not waste more time on what wasn't and gush over what is. Where many have failed, Teju Babyface has succeeded in producing not just a funny show, but a show that acquits itself favourably on other counts.
The best part for me is the ease and seeming effortlessness of Teju Babyface as presenter, interviewer, comedian, etc. As an interviewer, he keeps his focus by managing to get his guests to loosen up. He's managed to get Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa to relive her former life as member of a band by rapping on air! Jay Z she isn't, but it was just the kind of let-your-hair-down fun we do need TV for. He also got ex-international football star, Segun Odegbami, dancing to King Sunny Ade's song -the show's theme song. And for those of us who missed Odegbami's 'Mathematical' days, his 'moves' sure showed he still has 'it'.
