Why I Took Offense to Man Calling Me 'Skit Maker' At Event - Taaooma

At a recent press conference event for the Prime Video comedy reality show, Last One Laughing, Nigerian content creator Taaooma seemed to take offense when somebody at the conference called her a 'skit maker' to which she quickly corrected the person. Now during a new interview, Taaooma opens up about why she seemed to take offence to being called skit maker, and why she felt the need to correct the person who said it. Here is what Taaooma had to say.

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During an interview with The Will Downtown, Taaooma was asked "At the Press Conference, You corrected someone in the audience who called you a skit maker. Why don’t you like being called that?" She responded:

TAAOOMA: Skits are something very unplanned; I do skits sometimes. I actually don’t have a problem being called a skit maker; I just find that it belittles the work that’s put in. When people call you a skit maker, there is a particular way that they see you. I’ll give a perfect example. If I come into this building and the gateman refuses to open the gate for me because I came in a Toyota Camry but would let me in if I came in a Range Rover. That is what this thing looks like. You can call me a skit maker and acknowledge that perhaps I’m actually putting work into it. But when they call you a skit maker, they make it look like that is all I do, but I know how much work I put into my content, so you can’t just call me a skit maker. I won’t take that. It’s just the way I cannot just call you a janitor in an office where you are the CEO.

This is very personal. Even my mum sometimes confuses what I do as skits, and I’m like, “Mummy, please, I do a lot of work.” I know you feel like I’m playing because if you meet me on set, you will feel like I’m having fun with it, so you might not feel like there’s a lot of work in it, but there’s actually a lot of work. And for some of us that shoot, edit, sound engineer, and many other things, these are things that people feed their families with, and I do it alone. And at the end of the day, you want to call it just skits? No, I will not take that. That’s why every single time, I get to correct people. Please let us sensitise each other now so people won’t go out there and think I’m just having fun. I know I’m having fun, but at the same time, I’m putting in a lot of work.

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