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Comedy Central Presents Basketmouth – Lord of the Ribs
Wednesday, September 09, 2015Omoba
Basketmouth continues to make waves on the international
comedy scene by becoming the first Nigerian comic to have his own dedicated TV
special, “Comedy Central Presents
Basketmouth – Lord of the Ribs”, filmed and broadcast on pan-African comedy
channel Comedy Central (DStv channel
122).
The laugh-out-loud comedy channel will be pairing
up with Basketmouth to broadcast a
one-hour highlights show based on the 2015 edition of “Lord of the Ribs” comedy
night.
This year’s comedy spectacular includes a best-ever
line-up of Nigerian and international comedians including Basketmouth himself, and guest comedians Robert Powell (USA), Griff
(USA), Buchi (Nigeria), Bovi (Nigeria), Okey Bakassi (Nigeria),
Ndumiso Lindi (SA), David Kau
(SA) and Salvador (Uganda).
In support of the initiative, Basketmouth will also feature in a range of associated programming
on Comedy Central’s sister channel MTV Base.
Basketmouth commented, “I am very excited to be working with Comedy Central and MTV Base
to expand the reach of Lord of the Ribs to
a pan-African television audience.”
Added Alex Okosi,
Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Viacom International Media
Networks (VIMN) Africa, “We are delighted to partner with Basketmouth to create this compelling
high quality TV special for Comedy
Central. We are committed to raising
the profile of Nigerian comics and comedy - both at home and internationally - and we hope the partnership with Basketmouth will be the first of many
such initiatives.”
“Comedy
Central Presents Basketmouth – Lord of the Ribs” will be taped at the Eko
Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos on 4 October 2015 and broadcast to
50+ countries in sub-Saharan Africa on Comedy
Central in December.
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