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When OB Amponsah, the optometrist comedian, broke ribs with a Kumasiano

In a country where a lot more things can anger than excite, its always good to have something like this to smile and laugh over.

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If you are a fan of stand-up comedy, or better still a lover of our brothers from Warri and the other Naija towns and suburbs who storm this country each and again, then you would have realised that the scene has changed a lot.

Some of us experienced the mastership of Fritz Baffour, Tommy Annan Forson, Kwaku Sintim-Misa from the old school (Hi KSM). Indeed KSM has become like the bridge between the oldies and the newbies. The new kids on the block have taken up the challenge and oh boy, are they delivering!

Shouts to Comedian Aglah, Khemical, Foster Romanus, DKB, Lexxy, Jacinta, OB, Kalybos, James Brown and all the young men and women who have made it part of their business to make us laugh, and to make us feel proud again as Ghanaians that our own can make us laugh.

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Let me talk about OB Amponsah in this piece.

He spent 7 years in the medical school - I'm not sure if it was optometry he wanted to study or that was what the University pushed on him. Who cares. He learnt it and he's actually supposed to be called Dr. O.B. Amponsah. This is not a profile of the young man so let's leave some of the details out for later.

OB has deliberately decided to make his followers on social media laugh everyday. The things he says are the things that we know and indeed sometimes say to ourselves but he says them in the way that will make you smile, laugh and sometimes laugh out really out loud.

On Friday September 23, OB and another comedian based in Kumasi, Michael Owusu Afriyie decided to go at each other on Facebook with the hashtag #AccraVsKumasi in the spirit of fun and to give their fans a good view of what they have in their repertoire.

I think I probably laughed from the screens of my phone more than I did at the last comedy event I was at.

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Let me share some of them with you, starting from OB Amponsah's missiles;

Now let's share a bit of what Michael Owusu Afriyie did.

I must say I know very little of him. I followed him upon the recommendation of a social media friend. Clearly he's got a lot of comedy in him and his trolling skills are undoubtedly dope as well. Here goes;

Conclusion

In the end it was a lot of fun going around and it leaves me satisfied that we have a lot of talent here. It also makes me appreciate the tolerance level of the Ghanaian. In a country where a lot more things can anger than excite, it's always good to have something like this to smile and laugh over.

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