 Well, it's Friday and you know that we like to add something a little bit different on these days. Yes, it's another celebrity knock feature today. We are not just featuring a professional excelling at his craft, but we are also highlighting a series that's been quite the rave. Get ready to laugh because he's a stand-up comedian and the creator of the comedy series slightly unhinged. Usually we would give you a little more background, but today we'll allow the man himself to give us the details and hopefully make us laugh somewhere along the line. Welcome, doft and doffy shepherd to the celebrity knock stage. Really great to have you here. We do these kinds of things on a Friday, even though it's a sports show, I don't know if you have any interest in sport generally. Of course I do, I'm a sport fan. Any sport in particular? Wow, I think all sports, I played basketball, football, cricket, track and field. You look for them. Physically as if you do some working out. A shirt. A shirt. It's just a shirt. A shirt. I still do play basketball. Yes. I think that's... Who's your favourite NBA team? Golden State Warriors. Golden State Warriors. Steph Goldsman. Yeah, so I love how the team has been rebuilding this year and we're poised for a second half run. Oh, you are? The first half was a bit dodgy. Yes, it was. The main reason is that for every season you're content and you have to change the role of players. You have your main players and you have the younger players you have to develop. So there's going to be some hard knocks up. The first half of the season, players like Jonathan Komingo, Pozinski has been playing Moody's, coming into his own, Sarich, we had to integrate him into the team. So these players are playing well and we won last night. A big win as well. Yes, yes, yes, and there was one spot I think where a game and a half behind him. Yeah, yeah. So... Well, there's nothing funny about what you have said in the last couple of minutes. So let's shift away from that now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you like to laugh and you like to make people laugh. Slightly unhinged. Yes. Talk to us about that. Slightly unhinged. It was something I wanted to do being in stand-up comedy for about ten years. Every stand-up comedian has a stand-up comedy special that they did. And I thought it was a time. Mike Epps came here for a show several years ago. I was on that show, had a very good performance. The next day I was like, hey, let me do my own stand-up comedy special. Did a one-off show 2019, then COVID. And I was like, what am I going to do? Because I wanted to do a second year. So I turned it into a series. And now it's been going strong since 2020. Yeah. What led you to go the spot in your career? My parents, their genes. Oh. It's all their fault. My parents are the most comedic persons I know. When I'm around them, I'm not the comedian. They are. For real? My siblings, they are comedians. So it's their genes. My dad is hilarious. My mom has an, you know that person that laugh at him? Yes. And when they start laughing, everybody's laugh. Yeah. It's contagious. It is more than contagious. So she laugh at you, you feel embarrassed. You go home. You go home and cry. You go home. What cry? So yeah, I did 10 years in corporate, 10 jobs in 10 years. And I'm like, what? What am I going to do? This wasn't it. This wasn't it. No. The comedibles came about. I entered. I came like fifth. I didn't win. But I gained a valuable experience. And then I said, hey, let me jump into this world. And I said to my mother, mommy, I'm leaving corporate to do comedy. She said, keep your job. And she wasn't joking? No, no. She was dead serious. She said, keep your nine to five. Don't. But I pushed against the grain. And here I am now. I can honestly say I'm a stand-up comedian. Yeah. Stand-up comedy from a Caribbean cultural perspective is not the norm. It's not something that people gravitate towards in the Caribbean. Is that changing, first of all? And how influential do you think you can be in that process? Wow. So it is changing. And I think it has changed. It's very interesting that when you have stand-up comedy shows, they're all sold out. Persons are in tune to stand-up comedy. And if you think about this, Jamaica alone, on every corner there is a bar or a church. And in bars, everybody laughs. So stand-up comedy is just another form of comedy. And I think people actually gravitate to it quite well. Am I contributing to it? Of course. And there are other persons in the industry who are contributing to it, too. So, namely, Christopher Johnny Daley is doing work there. You have other comedians like Bossy Boy Floyd. You have Christopher Larmond. You have Diego DeCrosse and Villan. You have some young comics, Elias Fennell. You have Paco. You have Curly Roberts from Monty Obey. You have Chris Larmond, as I said, he's from Mandeville. So you have a lot of comedians who are in the space. You have I.T. Ellis, who, of course, him and I.T. and Fancy Cat. You almost said that couple. You had Blacker Ellis before that, who was partnered with Bello. So you had comedians right through the year. Of course, Elva Ruddock, who transitioned several years ago. So we have been doing it. And I think what has happened is with the advent of social media and a lot of persons now watching more stand-up comedy specials on streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu and all of that. Then we just needed to add our flavor to those platforms and know we are doing well. How difficult is it, though, to deal with these gigs that you have? Because I guess when people go to a comedy show, they want to laugh. Yes. And they are prepared to laugh. No. They aren't. No, they want to laugh, but they are not prepared to laugh. So they give you a hard time? So they pay to laugh and then they come and they go, met me last. Yeah. They're daring you to laugh. Is that difficult? It is. I get nervous before every single stand-up comedy show. If I don't feel nervous, something is wrong. Yes. Something is definitely wrong. But you prepare by just every day. You tell your own story. Your perception of things, your translation of what happens in real life. So in times now when you have the local government elections coming up, stand-up comedians look at what happens and look at the stuff in a whole different light. Yes. We are listening to the ads. We are watching persons jumping over the fence. We are watching persons who you go to the lady gate and one person help her put on the light. And ten minutes later somebody has to help her put on the light. Give me the best joke you've ever given. That I've ever given? Yes. Wow. That I must say is the best question I've ever been asked. Best joke I've ever given. No, no. I don't have one joke that I can say I've ever given. But it's situational because some persons connect. I try to tell my story. There's a story that I think I experienced. I'm a woman. Oh, you are? Yes. That's the best pool in this hemisphere. Listen, I'm man. I know you were great. Minus the hair. I know you were great. Yeah. That's all right. I see you shining through. And let's just say I had cold curry and milk for lunch. And cold curry. It had to come out quickly. And it didn't go up. I hear you. I'm just saying work the math. Do the math. Do the math. You have a big show on the first of March. Right upstairs here, this building. Right. On the top floor. Right. So Slightly Unhinged is under my company, Dasherport Entertainment. And we partnered, when did you say we partnered? Our sports club partnered last year to put on a stand-up comedy show. It was in the parking lot. And this year, Shermua Rowe, should I have called her name? Shermua Rowe? Yes. All right. Good. That's good. Right. She contacted me and said, hey, let's do it. What date? So she chose March first. And now we have a stellar lineup. We have Curly Roberts, who is from Montego Bay. Fabulous comedian. Kathy Tandedegrant, the lone female on the lineup. We have Eli Sfennell, who's a young comedian. And we have Bobby Smith, who a lot of persons know him from Royal Parmesan State. I know him, yes. Yes, Inspector Martin. He's a security man. Right. But he is a stand-up comedian. I saw him on the TVJ stand-up comedy series, which you were a part of. I thought that went over reasonably well as a television product. Right. Because I guess from a Caribbean perspective, we don't have stand-up comedy as a television product. No. So I think that's a new avenue there that would have opened some people's eyes. We need to put more content out that features stand-up comedian. And of course, I'm going to be on the show, and I'll be the emcee for the entire evening. So March first, right here on the roof, where we're going to be entertaining the digital staff and whoever else is invited. Yeah, well. Please ensure that they are there. It's great to have you on the show, Duffy. And I've been watching you doing your stuff. Please. And you can follow my stuff. Yes. On social media, Doftonship.org, there's Slack and HintJA. Or you can just go to Slack. And HintJA.com. Yes. And we have clips of the shows there and all of that. Great. Talk again soon. And I'll see you on the first of March. Yes. Upstairs, the Digicel building here in downtown Kingston. Bye. We'll be back with more on this. No Korean milk. That was one after this.