Dr Kingsley 'Raggashanti' Stewart (left) and his sidekick, Pretty Boy Floyd, at Blue Beat's Martini Comedy Night last week Thursday in Montego Bay. - Photo by Janet Silvera

WESTERN BUREAU:

Recently crowned 'King of Mix Up', talk show host Dr Kingsley 'Raggashanti' Stewart, along with his sidekick, Pretty Boy Floyd, gave a royally hilarious performance at Blue Beat's Martini comedy night last week Thursday in Montego Bay.

Both comedians, dapperly attired in 'pimp' costumes, slid easily in place with the number of men who roam the Hip Strip nightly, looking for business, but it was their tambourines and elocution that differentiated them from Gloucester Avenue's 'Men of the Night'.

Like preachers in a church, Raggashanti and Pretty Boy Floyd deliciously combined Raggatini's (Martini coined with his name in mind), Chocolatini's and Appletini's, while rebuking the large audience, which was primarily women, for appearing with borrowed men with short pockets.

But it was the uptown hypocrisy of skin exfoliation that had the audience in stitches. "Downtown people bleaching them skin, while uptown people are exfoliating," they claimed.

Not as innocent

Olympian Usain Bolt also came in for some verbal jabs for wrecking his luxury vehicle on the highway now named after him with three women in it. "Bolt must tell us what was happening with three women in his car when he had the collision," said the two in unison. "We know he is not as innocent as he wants us to believe."

Before long, the two took their lashing to embattled Member of Parliament Kern Spencer and his Cuban light bulb scandal. This line of comedy lit brightly with an audience hungry for the mix up.

Even though most of the evening it was the women who received most of the spontaneous bantering, they wallowed in the attention, calling for familiar jokes heard on News Talk 93 FM, Raggashanti's talk show.

"Tell wi bout di woman dem wah deh call demself wife, and the dog and the man a yard nuh know dem, and dem nuh have verandah ratings," shouted one woman in the audience. "Ragga, come here Ragga, mek mi tell you wah mi ah hear," shouted another. Between the joke about the woman who had sex with the vacuum cleaner and the penis-theft panic that hit the city, the adult-only audience became energised by every word that came out of their mouths.

Throughout the 90-minute performance while downing Martini, Pretty Boy Floyd and Raggashanti showed why their popularity had taken not just Jamaica by storm, but the Diaspora.

The men in the audience, though small in numbers, weren't shy when asked who have been victims of 'bun', and neither were the women, some sitting next to their men, were quick to put up their hands up when commanded "All who know dem give bun sometimes put up unnu hand."

The rib-tickling comedians had the large audience glued to their seats and at 1a.m. when the show ended, the patrons refused to get out of their seats.

The 'mix up' audience that invaded Blue Beat last week Thursday night got a show to remember for years to come.

janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com