Audience members were howling with laughter from the beginning to the end of Rhea-Simone “Simmy De Trini” Auguste’s comedy show, Stand Up for Something, on March 5 at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s.
The lineup of stand-up comedians took on a range of topics from relationships to sex to societal expectations.
Host Keevan “Keevo” Lewis did an amazing job at keeping the mood light in between performers, giving dating tips, relationship, and marriage advice.
Kevin Soyer told the audience that his disability, evidenced by his walking on crutches, was not due to the J&J vaccine. He shared some of the comments made by people while he was in hospital after becoming paralysed.
“'Look at your condition, nah. Allyuh come see this! You feel somebody work something on you? You need a bush bath?'
"And that was the doctors, nah.”
He also talked about how people infantilised him while he was in a wheelchair, as “in Trinidad people assume a physical disability means you’re mentally disabled.”
At one point there was dead silence throughout the theatre as he slowly lowered one foot to the floor, only for laughter to explode when he said, “I put my foot down against bullying.”
Next on stage was Kwame Weekes, who said he found women terrifying, for two reasons. He said once he sent a woman an intimate picture, and her reaction was “Awwww,” at which point the entire audience (or at least the women) also said “Awwww.” His second reason was because the Bible warned that “hell hath no worry like a woman scorned.”
Weekes said love felt like work, as there were certain parameters which had to be followed that felt just like a job.
[caption id="attachment_1004944" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Rhea-Simone "Simmy De Trini" Auguste, right, listens to singer Genisa “Nisa” Sellier during Auguste's show Stand Up for Something on March 5 at Queen's Hall, St Ann's.- courtesy Anniel Morales[/caption]
“I have to check in every morning with good-morning texts, I have to check out at night with 'I love you,' if I miss a day I get a warning, and if I miss three days, I might come to work to find a next man at my desk.”
Stan the Feminist Man (Louris Lee Sing) described how he was a bad man who had 27 children by 22 child mothers.
“When you see a man wearing sunglasses indoors, he’s a bad man... or he could be blind. You have to check. They call me Eric Williams because I’m the fathering of the nation. Women are my vice – well, I drink, smoke, gamble a little, and tief...but only from the government, so is mine.”
He said he didn’t burden the children’s mothers with his presence, and if he had to take care of his children he would drop them off at Casualty for the day, because they could be there all day without seeing a doctor.
Kes Ramsey of the Christians Can Laugh comedy show treated patrons to a number of observations about the Carnival period and what Christians do during that time.
“Did you jump up for Carnival? Sinners. I’ve never played mas, I went to church camp. My mom said, 'Kes, don’t carry your valuables to churc
