{"id":453508,"date":"2018-01-09T20:30:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/09\/i-was-called-a-fool-comedienne-jacinta\/"},"modified":"2018-01-09T20:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:30:22","slug":"i-was-called-a-fool-comedienne-jacinta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/09\/i-was-called-a-fool-comedienne-jacinta\/","title":{"rendered":"I was called a fool &#8211; comedienne Jacinta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Tuesday,  9 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-01-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/95208993.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jacinta Com9\" title=\"Jacinta Com9\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ghana\u2019s only Comedienne Heiress Jacinta<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515529822_261_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ghana\u2019s only Comedienne Heiress Jacinta has stated it has never been easy opting for a career which is not only male dominated, but regarded as one for disappointed lots.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr, Tuesday, January 09, 2018, the eloquent Comedienne stated she has entertained all sorts of invectives, but had to wear a thick skin to breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers made me feel I didn\u2019t have sense when I started comedy,\u201d Jacinta opined in the segment dubbed \u2018Gender 101\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>She averred she made a conscious effort to educate herself to the tertiary level in order to rub shoulders with her contemporaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople said nice girl like you, why do you want to fool. I look at people like Basketmouth [a Nigerian comedian] and I see that they are learned. I\u2019m not into comedy because I don\u2019t have anything to do, I have something to fall back on. I can\u2019t be on stage for life. A time will come I have to move into consultancy or become maybe the president and I don\u2019t want people to search for my certificate and will not find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Jacinta, her aspiration was to become \u201ca motivational speaker because I felt people dwelt too much on issues. And I wanted people to smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, her mother convinced her into comedy having realized her humorous jokes at home. She said she has never regretted her decision although comedy as a career never crossed her mind as a child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never saw myself as a comedienne \u2026 later when I decided to go into comedy I told myself I\u2019ll go to school. I attended a Comedy Club in 2012 to launch my career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t feel comedy when I came to Ghana. GhOne TV did an auditioning for comedy and that was the deciding moment. I was scared. I made it to the top 20 but couldn\u2019t make it further and returned to campus to do \u201cmy thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater I met David Oscar who took me to a Comedy Club and I teamed up with DKB for corporate comedy series among others. I had my first TV interview on GTV\u2026 I\u2019m still growing,\u201d Jacinta, who is a fixture on Starr FM\u2019s weekend entertainment show Morning Zoo, stated.<\/p>\n<p>She encouraged young females, hoping to take comedy as a career, to \u201cbe natural, confident, and God-fearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cYou\u2019ll be exposed to a lot of things. If you don\u2019t have what you stand for, you\u2019ll fall for everything. You\u2019ve to be original. Nothing is new anymore, but there must be originality in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born to Alex Dzabaku Ocansey and Eucharia Ocansey, Jacinta is the first and only daughter of her parents. Her younger brother is called David. Her father is a building constructor while her mother works for SOS Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Jacinta has bagged some awards including Ghana Tertiary Awards 2016 Most Influential Student Comedian, Most Popular Student and Most Entertaining Student.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 73 updated by: 73 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Tuesday, 9 January 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-01-09 Ghana\u2019s only Comedienne Heiress Jacinta Ghana\u2019s only Comedienne Heiress Jacinta has stated it has never been easy opting for a career which is not only male dominated, but regarded as one for disappointed lots. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr, Tuesday, January 09, 2018, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":453510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}