Basketmouth said: "My colleagues will agree with me that stand-up comedy in Nigeria is actually dying. The culture of stand-up comedy is bleeding terribly.
The ace comedian said his father disowned him after he started doing stand-up comedy in 1988, because he never saw a future in what he took up as a career.
Social media comedians are very talented and creative, but they cannot run down (replace) stand-up comedy. A lot of them don't have their own comedy shows. Stand-up comedy is always very different.