Comedy Club present “Tek Bad Ting Mek Laugh”
The Belize Comedy Club is hosting its second annual show on Friday and this time around it is geared towards bringing patriotism and optimism. According to the organizers, the two and a half hour event entitled, ‘Tek Bad Ting Mek Laugh’, is a medium through which youths can additionally find an alternative to guns, violence and crime on a whole. Through the initiative, the club also hopes to provide comic relief to the public, especially mothers who are feeling the pain of losing loved ones to violence. Coordinator, Raphael Martinez, explains.
Raphael Martinez, Coordinator, Belize Comedy Club
“What we are trying to do, we are trying to get our brothers—especially our young brothers—into something as an alternative for crime and violence in the city. The violence in the city has become such that every so often we see one of our young brothers dying and we see another mother crying on television. I think this will give them a little opportunity to move away from the sadness and this sorrow and relax a little while as we “Tek Bad Ting Mek Laugh” at the Bliss. You know, give them a chance to smile and its medicinal to go out there and laugh a while. So this Friday night at the Bliss at seven-thirty, we have “Tek Bad Ting Mek Laugh” and we have quite a line up. As a matter of fact let me just tell start with one of our main attractions, my good friend Lauren, just back from the Big Apple. She will actually grace us with her presence. You know Lauren is incomparable. All the way from Sugar City we have Dillon, Dillon Jones. Dillon is the one who speak about ih ma dah so much ad dehn dat dehn count dehn by foot. And then quiet unassuming brethren from San Ignacio Lionel Mangar but when ih start wid ih thing dehn. Dis dah di man weh seh dah PG dehn know all di jokes so yoh seh it by number. So yo just seh twelve and everybody laugh because they know weh kinda joke that.”
Performers on Friday night include veteran Lauren Burgess, Lionel Mangar from San Ignacio, Dillon Jones of Orange Walk, and Duets’ very own, Romy Plunkett and Elizabeth Tate. Tickets are available at the Bliss and are going at twenty dollars reserve and fifteen general admission. The show starts at seven-thirty.
