A few days ago, popular comedian, Bright Okpocha, famously known as Basketmouth was at the centre of social media frenzy when he cracked a joke about rape, which many of his fans deemed insensitive. He had since apologized for the controversial joke. However, in a recent interview with VOX African in London; he re-addressed the issue and stated that there should no limits to jokes.
It limits me though. Now it limits the type of jokes I’m going to be cracking right now. Sadly, every joke hits people the wrong way. If I crack jokes about food, there are people in third world countries saying, ‘Why is he cracking jokes about food? Have I chop na?’ They will just go on twitter and say ‘This guy should stop cracking jokes about food, I haven’t eaten’.” He said
“No. If you’re a comedian, you have the power to crack jokes because the truth is humour has no limits. You can crack jokes about death, living, anything you want to crack jokes about.
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