Some Good Old Comedy

Posted in Wabona,What's on Wabona on April 15th, 2013 By Wabona

The 90′s were famous for their many comedies whether black, white or homegrown. When I think of the comedies that I enjoyed as a young girl my mind goes to Friends, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Martin I loved those comedies. They just used to make laugh so much. I love the lightness and sometimes sincerity of comedies. It not too dark or haunting its just a social commentary and I love that. Even now at almost 23, I still cannot get enough of comedies especially Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory.

I wondered to myself what are the classic African comedies and other than ‘Gringo from Zimbabwe. Suburban Bliss is what came to mind. I recently watched season one again and it was hilarious. At times very silly but still lovable. As an adult I could not understand the jokes than when I was a girl. Living in South Africa also made it easy for me to understand the show better. I especially love the shows premise with a White and Black families living next door to each other in the early days of the new South Africa. I appreciated that they could make fun of the black and white stereotypes. This is something we rarely see nowadays. I feel that society has become too politically correct that as soon as race is mentioned people are all serious. I loved the way that they did in Suburban Bliss with the old people in particular. It was nice to see the gender stereotypes as well and have a comedic commentary on the changing social landscape in South Africa. I really wish that they would make more shoes like this.

So if you would love to be entertained like I recently was go to wabona.com.

I hope ya’ll have a lovely week

Phumu23 (@rebelleface23)

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