LIME Comedy Café delivers laughter
THE LIME Comedy Café returned to it’s home, at South Beach Café, Brompton Road, St Andrew, on Wednesday night and delivered two hours of non-stop laughter to a full house.
This year’s first instalment of the monthly comedy show got under way promptly at 8:30 p.m.. Comedic duo Ity and Fancy Cat opened the night’s show and had guests laughing so hard, some were almost brought to tears.
In their accustomed element, the hosting duo put a comedic spin on many currently controversial topics, including incarcerated deejay Vybz Kartel’s present dilemma. “All who glad fi deh outside say outside,” Ity said.
They also gave away numerous prizes courtesy of sponsor LIME.
The duo only whet the appetites of comedy lovers, preparing them for Internet sensation Dutty Berry (real name Russhaine Berry), the night’s opening act. Making his stand-up comedy debut, Berry graced the stage in his usual Dutty Berry nerd attire.
Cue cards in hand, he started a bit shakily, but held his own as the performance gathered momentum.
Admitting to being nervous, Berry told the audience he dreamt of being “bottled and stoned”, thanking them for accepting him.
Berry had guests erupting in sporadic laughter as he spoke about the ingenuity of Jamaicans. The highlight of his performance, however, came towards the end when Berry spoke about selectors at local dancehall sessions.
“Why our local selectors haffi come with so much sound effects? Is like dem talk so much, you hardly hear a which song a play,” he said.
Imitating a selector, Berry drove his point home, much to the delight of the South Beach audience.
Dutty Berry told The Gleaner, “I’m relieved. I experienced it, but it was like it was an out-ofbody experience for me and I’m just really grateful.
“Mi tink say people woulda boo mi, but it neva actually happened, and mi actually see people a laugh one and two time, so it was a good experience.”
SOLE FEMALE ACT
The night got better with Kathy ‘Tan Deh Deh’ Grant. The sole female act of the night, Grant had the audience in stitches, from start to finish, as she spoke about “ugly men (using one well-known politician as an example), ugly babies and hardworking women, among other topics.
Ending on a high, Grant mixed things up a bit by incorporating singing and dancing into her act, saying “unnu lucky. Mi a enjoy fi mi self. If unnu nuh waa enjoy fi unuself dat a fi unnu business. A unnu pay fi come in ya fi watch mi.”
The night’s closing performer was Dr Michael Abrahams, who thrilled the audience with his usual comedic social commentary. He opened with What AGwaan Inna Jamaica, his 2013 year in review, featuring issues such as Tessanne Chin’s victory on ‘The Voice’ and athletes testing positive for banned substances, among others.
Not even the prime minister was spared the comedic onslaught as Abrahams joked about her frequent flying and made fun of Simpson Miller not paying attention to current events.
It seemed Kartel’s court case was the hot topic of the night, as Abrahams also took his turn at speaking about the deejay’s situation, stating “mi can say anything mi want now cause him lock up.”
He ended the night on a high when he addressed his childhood and parenting, pointing out the differences in the latter between Jamaica and the USA.
LIME Comedy Café producer, Owen ‘Blakka’ Ellis, was pleased with the night’s turnout and pointed to further developments in coming months. He hinted at new acts gracing the stage each month and a co-host to join Ity and Fancy Cat.
Ian ‘Ity’ Ellis thanked sponsor LIME for its continued support for the business of comedy and the careers of comedians, while Alton ‘Fancy Cat’ Hardware said, “We would love to bring someone new every month that people don’t know about, to see what they’re going to come up with. So look forward to that.”