Eddie Caddy

There will be random people that will stop me in the middle of the street and literally say to me, you made me proud to be Congolese.

And it's things like getting invited by the Congolese ambassador.

In the UK, you know, just have a conversation.

It's like I've watched your stuff over the years and you really mean a lot to the youth.

How can we work together to really empower the youth and those things?

And then my father saying to me, he said to me, my dad's text me when I left the jungle.

And, you know, you can't wait to get to your phone, right?

You know, and then one of the early texts, my dad said, you've made me the proudest Congolese in the UK.

And that was like, whoa, you know.

No, I talk about stage, man.

My dad was not happy that I followed the career comedy, you know, all these opportunities in the UK that you want to do.

comedy you ought to be a clown why are you not a doctor why are you not a lawyer are you trying to embarrass me I would say my dad came to the show and he nodded he nodded for a whole hour and I realised at the end the nodding was him counting all the people in the place and counting the money and him saying yeah listen this is a great career because that's what it comes down to when you're coming from a place where opportunities are not there as much you don't consider the arts they open doors and

They play a massive role in society.

I think the jungle.

It has to be.

But being able to tell my story on there and a lot of the young people watching and going, that is also my story.

For me, that was just, yeah, it's a beautiful feeling.

Well, I'll tell you what, it's a bit of a relief because going in the jungle, I've always boasted when I did my stand-up daily, like,

I'm from Congo and we have the second largest rainforest in the world.

So I'm going in there, everyone's like, Eddie's going to ace this.