Young and talented Taaooma is undoubtedly one of the country’s most followed Instagram comedians at the moment.
Taaooma who has carved a niche for herself in a short while has opened up on how she started out as a comedian.
According to her: “I never thought of making skits, it was never part of my plans until I met my boyfriend, Abula who is a music video director in Nigeria. So, I met and asked him to teach me how to make birthday videos, join pictures together and as a result, I started learning to edit and I started making skits to be able to learn to edit. Because I cannot just learn how to edit without clips, that was how I started making skits,” she told Pulse.
Known for the signature slap she gets in her Instagram skits, Taaoo noted that her mum doesn’t slap her like that in real life.
“I exaggerated the slaps for the sake of humour. Not like mum slaps every time like that although she nags and does all those things, I just added the slap as a signature to make the story funnier. I noticed that people like the slap more and when I don’t even add the slaps to the skits, people will be like ‘why didn’t taaoo get slapped’ so I decided to all my skits as a signature. There are so many things that Taaoo would do that doesn’t warrant a slap but I have to add it to all of them but that was not the way I was raised, not even close to it,” she said.
Asked about the skit that made people start paying her attention, she said: “I think it was when I uploaded the skit when your mum drives you to school and everything started changing. And I never thought it was going to be this big or it was time yet. I didn’t know the time had come for me to become Taaooma.”