(By Oris Aigbokhaevbolo)--Bovi, king of Nigerian comedy, goes to the movies in It’s
Her Day
The contest for supremacy in Nigerian comedy has been
taken out of stand-up comic performances and into the movies. With It’s Her
Day, top comedian Bovi enters the ring.
The Nigerian film industry loves the comedy form. It’s
fast, it’s fun, it’s frequently foolish.
But foolishness has its uses. The last time somebody put
a foolish Nigerian on the big screen, he cashed in so much that his film ended
up in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-earning Nollywood film
at the box office. That somebody was the comedian Ayo Makun, aka AY, the film was 30
Days in Atlanta. It is a film that irked many but drew many more to the
cinemas.
