Andre Jebbinson, Staff Reporter
Belinda Reid (left) and Delroy Harris enact a scene. Harris plays a man who tries to escape marriage by making up stories.
Members of the clergy loosened their collars for an evening of laughter and limerick on Saturday as Clergy in Comedy played at the Karram Speid Auditorium, Constant Spring Road, Kingston. There were familiar and not so familiar names, but that did not prevent the auditorium from erupting into uncontrollable laughter and applause at times.
Dorothy Cunningham, most popular for her role as Miss Zella on Lime Tree Lane and the Captain's Bakery commercials, served as MC.
If there were people who had health concerns about what to eat, that was not the place for them. Reverend Eniola Davis played a janitor who mischievously pretended to be the doctor on a radio talk show programme. One of the many blunders he made was telling a caller that cows eat grass so steak is actually made from vegetables.
And if you think someone is stupid enough to buy that, a patient visited the doctor (Wintson 'Bello' Bell) because he mistakenly answered his iron for his cellular phone on two occasions.
Not so funny reality topics
In addition to supplying much laughter, the different acts managed to touch on topics that are not so funny in reality. Faith Gordon and Courtney Sappleton played a couple that has been married for 25 years. Sappleton's character was disgruntled by the fact that his wife's weight had doubled since they got married and now he wanted to find another young sexy girl. He, however, quickly changed his mind when his wife threatened to also reduce all of his possessions.
The holy men and women also poked fun at the now relentless cry for 'justice'. The conflict surrounded exploitation coming from the personnel department at a factory. The personnel officer, played by Stotrel Low, told workers that skinny employees would get 30 minutes for lunch and fat people would only get five minutes since that was all the time they needed to drink a slim fast.
Though most of the audience probably did not know what she was talking about, Deon Silvera recapped her experience of attending Bogle's funeral. Her brazen description left nothing for the imagination.
Honouring one's parent is paramount in the Christian faith and some of the church leaders shared some of the things they learned from their mother. One member learned about consequences, 'Cross road mek car lick yuh down and kill you when you get home.'
The audience got a few pointers that they could walk away with. It is not necessarily a bad thing to get an infection as smiling is infectious. Another lesson learned was that if you do not have a driver's licence, you should probably not drink and drive.
And what more appropriate way to end but with some current affairs. The Portmore toll crisis was not off limit as the entire cast gagged the not so funny subject. The punch line, "Portmore toll, whole heap a bangarang."
