Nigerian comedian Anita Alaire Afoke Asuoha popularly known as Real Warri Pikin has has opened up on how difficult it is for her in business due to her shape. This is coming after hosting her recent comedy show.
Real Warri Pikin in an interview talked about how her curvy figure affected men when it came to buying tables for her show.
She was asked how she determines the areas that will translate well with her audience versus those that will flat line
Over the years, I have studied my audience and I know what they like. My audience wants me to put out marriage content, especially in Nigeria, there is the predominant belief that marriage does not work, but I have been married to my husband for nine years and it is just seamless, effortless and that is strange for a lot of people… They always want to see me dance. I also get inspired by my past experience, my environment, my pain, my joy all this motivates and inspires my content.
She was also asked if she got nervous having not performed life on stage in a while. She replied, “Anyone would be nervous. Every comedian is nervous because standup comedy is hard. Online comedy, you will edit by yourself to perfection but when it’s live, [if] you mess up, you have messed up. And even when you begin to try to do damage control, because you see you are losing your audience, it may not work. I think being nervous is normal, it just comes with the job”.
Real Warri Pikin then talked about how hard it was selling tables for her show to men.
“It was a bittersweet experience when preparing for my show. It was something I was running away from but eventually I did it. It was hard in the sense that I am a woman – a married woman. There are some places you will go to sell a table and [men] will say ‘2 million Naira for a table!’ Next thing you hear is, ‘But why did you rush and marry? This your waist ehn…’ They will be saying it in a teasing way, but you know he is serious, or they will say ‘I would have bought this table for you but you are married’. However, I got support from lots of women, which is not the norm we are accustomed to; women came out, told their husbands to support me. So, yes it was hard trying to sell tables, trying to get people to sponsor because it is my first time, but we did it anyway, and it was a sold out event”.
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