The Making of Shank Comics in Today’s “Doing Life With…”

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This week, we are doing existence with Shank Comics (Adesokan Adedeji Emmanuel), a comic, skit maker, and YouTuber who has emerged as doubtless the most main voices in Nigeria’s new wave of digital comedy. Identified for his signature catchphrase “Lit Gang,” Shank has expanded himself previous short-make comedy into live performances and global collaborations. In 2025, he acquired $10,000 at Kai Cenat’s Streamer University occasion, which marked his entry into streaming.

Revel in the dialog!

Howdy Shank. How are you feeling these days?

Howdy. I’m doing enormous, and you?

Quite loads of folks loved watching your recount as a creator. Why did you alter to streaming, and how did you understand it turned into as soon as time?

Hmm, to me, streaming is true added price to earn what I desire from my profession. 10 months previously, I didn’t must be a streamer, nonetheless alongside the street, I stumbled on that streaming is a extremely efficient weapon I’m able to add to my brand. Giving me extra probabilities to total my objectives as a inventive, and what I desire is easy: “The sphere must hear my name”. Now… I’m a skit maker, streamer and a YouTuber. Day after these days, I could possibly well add something else. Whatever aligns with my imaginative and prescient, I enact…shamelessly!

Please clarify us about your background –schooling, childhood, profession poke and an aspect of your childhood that fashioned who you is probably to be these days?

I’m able to’t be awake what took order in my kindergarten days, nonetheless I’m optimistic I didn’t know e-book, lol. I attended Goodness and Mercy Non-public School, Olambe, Ogun Converse, for my foremost college and Lagos Converse Mannequin School, Meiran, for my secondary college. I studied Digital and Electrical Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun Converse. After university, I knew deep down I didn’t must work for any individual. I started as a Twitter influencer in 2019, and one day, a video I posted went viral, and since then, it has most attention-grabbing been God. I don’t even perceive how I purchased right here.

When did you realise comedy would possibly possibly well change into greater than true skits on-line, that it would possibly possibly probably probably if fact be told be your profession? 

After I started getting paid. Omo, I locked in. Secure God no shame us.

What’s been basically the most tough effort you’ve attach into your profession up to now, and what did you learn from it?

I attach plenty into it. At every point in my existence, I repeatedly strive something completely different because I earn bored with out difficulty. 2019 turned into as soon as Twitter; 2020 turned into as soon as 3 Gains videos; 2021 turned into as soon as Evangelist A. A Alao videos; 2022, I started Lit Gang; in 2023, I started making YouTube videos; in 2024, I mixed skits and YouTube, and in 2025, I started streaming. I esteem being excited. If I’m no longer excited, I receive something to excite me.

Attempting abet at your poke up to now, what has recount introduction taught you about Nigerians and about yourself?

Nigerians–if fact be told, folks in long-established–don’t know what they wish till you give them something. So don’t overthink, true enact. Folks true must be entertained.

Ought to you weren’t doing recount introduction, what’s one unexpected profession direction you specialize in you’d be on correct now?

I specialize in I’d be a copywriter, making sales pitches for producers.

What’s one private skills that has fashioned the make of recount or the make of initiatives you fabricate or work on these days?

Hmm, I’m true a random guy. I specialize in of basically the most “Oh my God, this can’t happen thing” and high-tail movie it. It’s stress-free.

It can additionally be complicated to true live or inform something with out taken with what critics would possibly possibly well inform. What fragment of Emmanuel are you continue to looking out to own previous Shank Comics?

 I don’t in point of fact know, nonetheless I judge that no longer all individuals if fact be told cares how I have faith. In actual fact. In actual fact. They don’t must know my fact.

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Many thanks to Shank Comics for having this dialog with us and answering all our questions – and snappy too, we must add.

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