We already dealt with how to get a sponsor.Now we will look at how to unget a sponsor.

You have never heard that word right? Unget, it means to dismiss or get rid of something.
Example; the woman was humbugging me so I “unget” she!
Use it as often as you can, it is from the Boyce dictionary.

Here’s how to respond to potential sponsors when you are meeting with them and they put nothing on the table but yet want coverage:

Like when they say they don’t have any money but will give you giveaways, then they smile like you are to be happy about this.

I have never understood how you not giving money but give aways help me but maybe its because as NCF says I am sorta slow.

For your edification I have prepared a number of responses to positions often heard from potential sponsors That you need to unget..

* I have no money this year, but will come on board and give you money next year!

Response: see you next year!

*We gave all our sponsor monies to the NCF, have no more but still want in

Response: see you at NCF events.

* I have no money but will give you stuff to give away!

Response: give away a bye bye!

If a company does come with a tangible non monetary contribution that can save you cash by all means take it.

But if they don’t help pay the bills, what’s the point? Remember Dorsie and the lights and sound people only accept cash, they don’t accept flour and biscuits!

When a sponsor offers you that only, it is time to unget them!

Support 100% Bajan Movies ….

Doesn’t it make you proud to be a bajan when you look in the newspaper and see not one but two local films showing in our Olympus cinemas?

Kite Flyer and Hit for Six, even the names of the movies sound Bajan. Movies starring Bajans made for Bajans, so as Bajans we need to go out and support.

I saw the poster for Kite Flyer displayed in the Olympus, it looked tight*. It looked like a movie I would want to see regardless. I am not really a cricket fan, but I will see “Hit for Six” too, I hear the production values are high.

About the “Six” poster (above) look closely at Andrew Pilgrim and that guy, it looks like they are going to kiss, it looks very Broke Back Mountainy. I recommend they change the poster before they release in Jamaica.

See you at the bajan movies now showing at an Olympus cinema near you.

Also big ups to Olympus owner Phil Hardin for giving our local films the chance to be featured in his cinemas along with Spiderman 3.
* Good

I get curse this weekend!  And real bad too.

This man walk up to me and start busing like there was no Crop Over.  At first I was vexed until he pointed out that he had read my blog post To Curse or Not to Curse and he was following  my instructions.  So I told him continue.

His bone of contention was my blog I Like Women Badd.

He said that it was men like me who was stopping the black man from progressing resulting in the general decline of morale of society symbolized by men no longer being seen as effective role models.

And how was I doing this?

He said I went to the Caribbean Comedy show on Mothers Day, saw hilarious performances by Fudd Straker Jamaican Bobby Smith (star of Royal Palm Estate) Learie Joseph, Louise Antoine, Damian Melville and eating expert MC Alf.

Did I not mention any of the outstanding performances of the men, NO! All I could talk bout is how I like women Badd. “You should be shame” he said “You are like a clown and should be working at the NCF!”  Now that is where I drew the line, to curse me is one thing but to tell me I should be at the NCF that is where I draw the line.

So for the record and to prevent future cursings…

MC Alf was in fine eating form, the women were just lapping up his jokes, it was the best MCing from Alf I had ever seen.  Television star Bobby Smith proved that not only could he act but that he is also a top class comedian.  Ok I admit almost all the male comedians were good, but I still like women Badd!  

The good news is that the show is being repeated on fathers day 17th June as a fund raiserfor Trevor Eastmond so you can still get a chance to catch it and judge for yourself.  It will be a show of BRAND NEW JOKES!

I thanked the guy sincerely for cursing me and putting me in my place, some times you have to do that!

What is the boyce boy doing in Jamaica? I will expand on my reason for visiting here later but right now I will tell you this.

While in Jamaica I am keeping a low profile as you know how Jamaicans are. They can be “funny” when it comes to certain “funny” issues in a violent aggressive kind of way. (funny here meaning gay)

Some people also cannot decipher between fact and fantasy!

Next thing you know, I would be walking through Spanish Town, somebody will recognise me as Madd from Barbados that group that got in “dat botty boy” archiebull cox. Of course I would vigorously deny it and claim I would never be associated with such a group. Somebody would say “nah de boy does be pun de radia talking funny” next thing yuh know I dead! (that would raise some peoples hopes there) you could imagine a man could get dead so easy for playing a role. That is like meeting actor Tobey Maguire and throwing him off a building and expecting he would shoot web and swing himself down!

An Entertainer can find himself in danger if his professional persona gives a perception which in no way represents his true self. People also should not be so quick to act on perceptions as happens here in Jamaica where attacks on supposed “gays” occur regularly. It dawns on you as you walk around here, that that could easily happen to you.

So while I am here I talk with extra bass in my voice, drink beer and if any one recognises me I walk pass them like I have never seen them before.

By the time people read this I should have flown out of their air space and on my way back to Barbados! More on Jamaica later, Irie mon!

I like women badd! Not just for the reasons you think but because of their ability to excel in all areas.

Some of my favorite movies star women, like Kill Bill and Long Kiss Good Night.

This is my lead in to complimenting the outstanding performances of the only two female acts on the Mothers Day Comedy show recently held at the gymnasium, our own Jennifer Walker and Yolanda Holder in Double Laffs and Trinidad’s Raquel price.

Double laffs was wucklessly funny but yet delivered a serious message, the need for men to be tested for prostate cancer along with commenting on other social issues.

Jennifer and Yolanda was so tight then, they did a great job representing bajan women.

Presenting a new improved slimmer Raquel Price, with curves too in the right places. She was Hilarious as hell! Her entire routine was commentaries on the Akon incident, church hypocrisy, raising children, politics and gay rights. all mixed with some wicked talk about her attempts at anal sex. She was like an X rated Oprah.

Good comedy should not just be funny, but should also educate and these ladies did just that.

They were excellent!

Thats why I like women Badd, They Rock!

Warning to men; Do not ever dare to heckle Raquel Price at a show!

She has this ability to stand from the stage and publicly identify what ever sexual activity you engage in with your mouth, and it is not usually with the opposite sex! Nuff Said!

As you should know by now comedian Trevor Eastmond was injured in a fire on last Sunday 13th May where he also lost his house and all his possessions. Trevor was discharged from the hospital on Monday and is staying by a friend. I took the time to visit him earlier this week to see how he was doing. Trevor suffered burns to his back and right arm and is now painfully recuperating. He now has to visit the hospital every morning to have his injuries attended to and bandages changed.

Despite his challenges Trevor is still in good sprits and considers the ordeal an experience he will learn from. Efforts are now being made to organize a benefit show for Trevor on 17th June Fathers Day. Listen out for more info and entertainers come out and support your own and public come out too.

One thing that Trevor told me that stayed with me is that on Sunday when he was in the hospital in immense pain unable to move, a man came up to him and said “Ah want a Joke!”.
Can you imagine that?

Hi, sorry for the noise, I am writing this while at the Mothers Day Caribbean Comedy Festival at the gymnasium, de jokes tight then. You should be here too there are still a few empty seats. From in the audience I am conducting research to see who laughing the hardest at the wuffless jokes the comedians are telling. You know who laughing the hardest at the oral sex jokes?

De women!

You know who putting up them hands when MC Alf asks who like oral sex?

De women!

You know who getting on de worse when de comedians describing the fine art of oral techniques?

De women!

De men hardly moving, we get stuck trying to be cool. It is therefore puzzling as a comedian when you hear the moral critics (I will not call Ricky Jordan’s name) who publicly berate wuffless jokes at comedy shows claiming they degrade women. When it is de same women that like them jokes de most! Them just lapping it up then.

Over all it is quite an entertaining show and a good showing by all the performers. Raquel Price was particularly outstanding, she touched on social issues and finished with a bull by ball … sorry I meant ball by ball commentary, on her attempts to have sex through her back door that was an eye opener, or some other kind of opener.

You should have been there, watch for the Best of Barbados Gone Madd Comedy show in November though..

OK, Gotta run, Dem just crack another eating joke, de women are laughing like Madd…!

I received a call during Mothers day with some bad news .

Trevor Eastmond who was scheduled to perform later that same evening at Caribbean Comedy Festival, had been hurt in a house fire and was hospitalised. At the same show later on, it was announced that a benefit concert would be staged to raise funds for Trevor soon. Madd Entertainment will support that effort 100% and I know the entertainment fraternity will too.

It will be interesting to see what the government and NCF will do for Trevor, especially since he is not one of their favorite people.
Eastmond has been contributing to our comedic art form for over 30 years, not only locally but internationally. The Government has this tendency to come with a lotta pretty talk when it comes to supporting artistes and when some misfortune occurs and you need their assistance all of a sudden they disappear or just point blank say NO!. (Check what happened to Romeo)

Trevor will need the support of the entertainers and the public and we should be there for him in his time of need.

Read the story here.

What is decency? who defines decency?

Is decency defined not by what is said and done but by who says and does it, and where..?

Explanation to above igrunt statement!

I recently attended the play written by Austin Tom Clarke entitled ‘The Polish Hoe’ featuring accomplished thespians Allyson Sealy Smith and Tony Thompson. Twas an excellent theater production.

During the course of the play some colourful language aka cursing was utilised.

The word I will focus on is the use of the word ‘dickey’ referring not to a man name Dickey but what a man gives a woman. And don’t play you don’t know what I mean!

Now If KB Kleen or Mac had been mcing Bacchanal Time and had let go some of the language including saying a woman gun get some good ‘d__key’ (they censored me) we would be de worst ting in the world and de Call In programs would be hot de next day saying how we contributing to de decline of moral standards of society.

But when it is uttered in a play at Frank Collymore Hall, it is all good!

Again don’t think I am decrying the play, it was a first class production, I am just making a *f______ing point. You see, now you think less of me, if I was in Frank Collymore Hall it would have been fine, hence my opening paragraph.

Is this a double standard or what? What do you think?

*Note; the word I used was “freaking” ok, you have a bad mind.

Did you get to see Andy Armstrong in the Glen Lovell play “Going For Love” staged at Frank Collymore Hall recently?

Andy Armstrong did a magnificent performance acting in the show, he was a real Robert De’Niro or Jim Carrey or some thing.
The comedic production was very entertaining, it reminded me I need to get out more and support local theatre productions.
And so should you! Instead of stopping home and watching dvds all the time.

It was a two person play featuring Andy and actress Carla Springer who not only performed well but looked good too, I would not mind being in a play with her. Keann Walters had a guest cameo voice role as an irate outside woman, I thought she fitted that role quite nicely. She reminded me of Nicole Kidman! You know I must always big up my Bacchanal people.

Andy Armstrong is an example of how as entertainers we need to diversify. He has gone from being one of the lead singers of the now defunct band Square One to a proliferic producer (Redd Head Records) and now an actor too. Not only did Andy star in the play but is also a part owner in the company (SAYGE) that produced it.

Kudos to Andy!

I look forward to ‘Going For Love’ the sequel!