Watched an Alex Mwakideu interview the other day he was talking to the legendary judge from Vioja Mahakamani. Millennials, you know her ~That no-nonsense mama who took zero nonsense in that courtroom.
Now here’s the wild part they never had scripts. Not a single one. They’d just show up, pick roles, agree on the case, and go. Cameras rolling, take one, done.
So every punchline Alphonse Makacha and Dot Makokha ever dropped? Pure improvisation. No rehearsal. Nothing prepared. Just talent doing its thing in real time.
Kenya really had something special with that crew.
And here’s the part that gets me AG Amos Wako was fully behind the show. He’d supply them with real court cases and actual judgments from Kenyan courts. So when the judge passed her verdict on screen, it wasn’t made up. It was legally accurate, straight from the constitution.
Comedy on the surface. Civic education underneath.
That’s a level of craft most productions today can’t touch.
Golden era. Salute to those legends. 🫡
Scandinavian winters are so dark, so draining, that when spring comes one becomes manic with joy. Even though it happens every year, one is left overwhelmed by the sense that they had forgotten it was possible to feel this good.
Your roommate wakes you up to tell you your alarm has been ringing.
You sit up and realize it’s 2007 and everything else has been a dream.
What’s the first thing you do?
The BEST thing I learned this year was how to still enjoy my life during my storms. As long as we have life we will have problems. My entire world can be in chaos & I'll still try to find a reason to laugh and smile.