{"id":51392,"date":"2023-03-29T20:52:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/29\/ill-be-retiring-from-stand-up-comedy-in-5-years-basketmouth\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T20:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T20:52:47","slug":"ill-be-retiring-from-stand-up-comedy-in-5-years-basketmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/29\/ill-be-retiring-from-stand-up-comedy-in-5-years-basketmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll be retiring from stand-up comedy in 5 years &#8211; Basketmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Basketmouth-Ghana-Jollof-copy-1024x554.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Nigerian comedian Basketmouth says he will be retiring from stand-up comedy in five years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Daybreak Hitz<\/strong> on <strong>Hitz FM<\/strong>, the comedian said that he has plans to stop comedy at the age of 50. He added that in five years, he would mark 31 years of stand-up comedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, I told myself and my team that I am going to do comedy and after years, I am quitting. I want to start a new journey, experience something new,\u201d Basketmouth said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of five years, that is like 31 years in the game, that is a lot of time, pretty much more than half of my life, so I want to do something else,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Basketmouth said that prior to making this decision, he slowed down on performing stand-ups for some years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I did was I kept a London show going, so for every February I do a show there, so I don\u2019t get rusty. So, for the past six years I have just been floating,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Basketmouth said he wants to explore other interests including, expanding his knowledge of films, TV shows and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be remembered for everything I do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Basketmouth is currently in Ghana for his much anticipated \u2018Unprovoked\u2019 show, scheduled for April 8.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CqIKswstfSW\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian comedian Basketmouth says he will be retiring from stand-up comedy in five years. Speaking on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM, the comedian said that he has plans to stop comedy at the age of 50. He added that in five years, he would mark 31 years of stand-up comedy. \u201cLast year, I told myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>I&#039;ll be retiring from stand-up comedy in 5 years - Basketmouth - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/29\/ill-be-retiring-from-stand-up-comedy-in-5-years-basketmouth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I&#039;ll be retiring from stand-up comedy in 5 years - Basketmouth - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigerian comedian Basketmouth says he will be retiring from stand-up comedy in five years. 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