Kavelle Anglin-Christie, Staff Reporter
Johnny (left) and Iceman. - FILE
PATRONS LAUGHED all night long at 'Lyrics, Laughter and Love' at the Hylton Hotel, New Kingston Sunday night.
There were 22 fun-filled performances and they were in the form of poetry and drama. The comedians performing included Blakka Ellis, Ity and Fancy Cat, Pretty Boy Floyd, Elva, Ice Man and Johnny.
In one of Blakka's pieces, Blessed I Yam, he played a Rasta Man 'Ras Ital'. "The yam bury under the earth like how I bury under oppression ...Yam dat I am," he recited at one point of the presentation.
He also stated that when Moses parted the Red Sea, he did not use a 'staff', instead "'I-roneously' ... The staff was those dat work with Ras Moses ... It was the yam that make a splash and parted the Red Sea."
YAM AS PROTECTION
He went on to say that the yam could be used for protection: "All you do is dash di yam after di s'maddy ..."
The members of the audience found it impossible to contain themselves throughout the piece.
Elva gave a detailed description of what women went through to use public bathrooms, especially at the workplace: "You know sometime yuh well want go ennuh, but yuh in deh and yuh pat and look roun and fix up," she motioned as if putting on makeup. "Then di sinting all ah bum up pon yuh ennuh. Yuh go back a yuh seat and bump all start tek up the whole of yuh face from di pressure ..."
Ice Man and Johnny, the next performers, went into detail about what men go through when they use the public bathroom - illustrating the thug shake and p-s and the nerd's 'wee-wee' followed by a small shake. However, they also touched on the recent hot topic of being in a relationship for 10 years with a woman then having her leave you for your rival.
'HANGRY, MIH-HISERABLE'
"Yuh can imagine, yuh go home and talk to this woman every day about the same man ... 'Cross, hangry, mih-hiserable' and she go deh wid him after?" they said.
Pretty Boy Floyd also performed well. He spoke of the Motorola Razr phone and how everyone has one these days and when he first got his passport with a 'one month entry' he took it everywhere, "so yuh can imagine now dat me get di ten year?" he asked, whipping out a passport from his back pocket.
Though comedic performances dominated the night, there were also dances by the Dance Theatre Xpressionz and Kemesha Bolton, while music was provided by Jah Children, Aston Ellis and company and Simiji from Sierra Leone.
... when Moses parted the Red Sea, he did not use a 'staff', instead "'I-roneously' ... The staff was those dat work
with Ras Moses ..."
