Nigerian popular comedian and skit maker Denilson Igwe narrated how he found Mark Angel comedy and the hitches with his then collaborator, Mark Angel.
Speaking in a trailer released ahead of the upcoming episode of ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast, Igwe said he detached from Mark because he discover that Mark was cheating him and the other crew members.
He said he first started Mark Angel Comedy which had gained global recognition today.
According to him, he was the one filming the content which Mark usually post on Facebook at the initial stage of their Comedy but Mark didn’t tell him when the face page was monetized.
He further said that Mark gave him nothing from the money generated from the monetized Facebook page until 2016 when he gave him 50,000 after getting a car for himself.
Igwe allegedly narrated that Mark was paying one of the crew icon, Emmanuella, N20,000 monthly unbeknownst to them that their comedy was generating $160 monthly.
He said, “I was the one that started Mark Angel Comedy. I’m an orphan… Mark was the elder brother of the house. He was a security guard at Kilimanjaro, GRA, Port Harcourt.
“I was learning camera work from a man called Ifeanyi and I stole one of the cameras. So in our own free time, we will shoot comic videos.
“Mark then suggested that we should create a Facebook page [to post our comedy videos] which I accepted not knowing even when it was monetized.
“I just kept filming. Then suddenly in 2014, Mark bought a car. I asked him how he was able to afford it and he lied that someone gifted him the car and I accepted. I haven’t received a dime from Mark Angel Comedy revenue then.
“He started paying Emmanuella N20,000 monthly. Her parents were poor so they didn’t even know the value of what their daughter was doing.
“No one knew the revenue it was generating. 2016 was the first time he gave me N50,000 and told me that the comedy wasn’t generating revenue. And we were making $160,000 monthly off Mark Angel Comedy’s Facebook revenue then.”
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