Many of her friends had dreams of becoming policewomen, doctors or social workers. Bini knew she didn’t have to worry about a career for many years so she didn’t.
All of that changed when Bini saw Vicky Pollock on TV. It was like Vicky reached through the screen and flipped a switch in her brain. All of a sudden Bini knew what she wanted to be when she grew up, she wanted to write jokes and more than that, she wanted to perform the jokes that she wrote – on the grand stage.
Vicky Pollock was one of the funniest stand-up comics in South Africa. She was also a judge on a reality competition called Make Us Laugh. The show gave aspiring stand-up comedians a chance to tell jokes and possibly win R250 000.
Bini watched as contestant after contestant came up to perform a five-minute stand-up comedy routine. Some of their jokes were funny, but most of them she didn’t understand.
Right at the end, Vicky would do a short routine before ending the show. She told clean jokes with punchlines that even a child, like Bini, could catch.
BINI’S big sister, Diane, was also her biggest fan and was the only person in the house that knew of her pursuit of being a comedian Both of them agreed that their father would not approve of Bini’s career ambitions, and thus they decided to keep quiet about it.
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