COMEDIAN, Wazi M Kunene hopes to win big at the Savanna Comics' Choice Comedy Awards on Saturday, 13 April, at the Lyric Theatre in Joburg.
She's nominated for the Breakthrough Act of The Year Award, alongside Ebenhaezer Dibakwane, JamJam The Comedian, Shanray Van Wyk and Vafa Naraghi and hopes to bring it home.
Wazi (32) from Pietermaritzburg in KZN spoke to Daily Sun about being nominated again.
She won the Savanna Newcomer Award in 2023.
“Life after winning the Savanna Newcomer Award has been wonderful. It’s really showing that everything matters and is unfolding the way it should. I’m still happy and glad about my award.
“I was sad to see that in this year’s nominees for Newcomer, there are no female comics. I was hoping I had opened the flood gates and that other women would be nominated, but am happy for all the nominees. I’ve also been rooting for them,” Wazi said.
Wazi said the nomination took her by surprise.
“I always expect good things to happen. Also, I get surprised when they happen. But it's Comics Choice, and comics vote for you. So, if you haven't put in the work, they won't see you. Every category this year is really tough, including mine. There are big comics who are doing well out there. But I’m hoping to win."
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The comedian is passionate about women doing comedy.
“I’ve been running a show called Women Who Kill for close to two years now, creating space for more women to step up and do comedy. We have great women in comedy, but they're few and far between. However, they're great. We go around the country making people aware of women in stand-up comedy.
“There're women who are so dope and great, but people don’t pay much attention to them,” she said.
Wazi added that she's working on a few projects.
“I’m doing cameos. I don’t want to jinx it, but there’s going to be some fun writing work that's coming in a few weeks' time.”
