Munya Chawawa: Why Comedy Matters Right Now | GREAT MOMENTS
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Hello there, Ben Shepard here. And me, Joel Domets. So, Christmas is here and while you're wrapping gifts, it's time to wrap up your business goals too. If you want to know exactly how to prepare for your money resolutions before the end of the year and start January ahead of the game, listen to our podcast, The Businessman. So grab a mulled wine, hit play and make this Christmas the start of your best business year yet. Search The Businessman wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on YouTube. Hello, everyone. I'm Jamie Lang, and this is Great Moments. Hey guys, welcome back to our great moments. Who do we have today? We have Munya Chihuahua. Munya is the satirist and social media creator behind some of the sharpest and funniest social media content out there.
He's a genius. He's the best. We also did Gogglebox together. So if you saw Gogglebox, you'd see us doing that together. Now in this great moment, we chat about how comedy can be one of the most powerful forms of communication. He certainly proves that. And how humor helps us tackle difficult topics, challenge politics, question the society we live in, all those kind of things. It's a great episode and we hope you like it. And if you really like this little great moment, you can click on the full episode, which is in the show description. Just click on the link. Okay, you ready? Here we go. Enjoy this great moments with Munya Chihuahua. Do you know what's so amazing about your careers? You leave Sheffield studying psychology.
You decide that you want to go into this industry. But you were told, unless you had 30,000 followers, you probably wouldn't get an agent. So you went, right, I'm going to go and post a video twice a week on my social media. So you made a video twice a week. I think it was four years or something until one of them really popped off. Yes. So first of all, to get in that room, I would lie to agents saying that I was Idris Elba's son in the email. LAUGHTER In the email. And then oftentimes either they would figure out it was a joke and go, okay, you got me. Like, this is quite interesting. Come in. I want to meet you. Or they'll be like, you know, they would believe I was his son. So I get in there on this one occasion and they're like, look, we really liked your email.
It was very smart what you did. Watched your showreel. It was good. You've got, you know, you've got charisma, you've got what it takes, but how many followers do you have? And I was like, oh, I don't know, like 2000. They went, no, no, no. If you have 30,000 followers, maybe we would have connected you to someone in the digital team. So I mentioned this because it's a very important, uh, it's very important within the dissection of what the term influencer means, for example, right? I slightly have beef with the term because I think in many cases it disguises a person's actual talent or skill, right? This is less in reference to me. It's more in terms of my peers even. What do you mean by that? So what I mean by it is this.
In press...
What makes comedy a powerful form of communication?
you know okay so thus far in when i have been reviewed in the press or whatever oftentimes journalists will steer away from calling me a comedian or a satirist even though that's predominantly what i do you know i've been called a youtuber despite the fact that i rarely put anything on youtuber on youtube when i went on bake off they described me as a podcaster i don't even have a podcast jamie you know how mad that is i don't even have a podcast it's I've been called a rapper, even though rap is sometimes what I do within my satire. And I think, okay, and of course I've been called an influencer, which is interesting to me. Influencer, in people's minds, is somebody whose only skill is being popular, right?
That's what the term is used to imply. It's like, oh, you're just a popular person. Mm-hmm.
How does Munya Chawawa define the role of humor in society?
However, to gain popularity, especially now, surely requires oftentimes some sort of skill to be amazing at cooking or music or dancing or something, to actually entice an audience to go, oh my God, that's amazing.
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