Zvirikumbofamba Sei to Uncle Richie, Baba Tencen?

IT appears the bags of jokes that introduced once popular comedians Richard “Uncle Richie” Matimba and Pepukai “Baba Tencen” Zvemhari to the comic world a few years ago have dried up, such that some arts critics have certified a spent force tag on them.

It seems the emergence of Uncle Richie and Baba Tencen on the showbiz scene, where they hogged the limelight was another fairy-tale run of fly-by-night entertainers where “real” comedians in the mould of Carl Joshua Ncube, Doc Vikela and the P O Box TV crew also doing online comedy among others have sustained their visibility over the years.

The two comedians who are famed for Zvirikumbofamba Sei?

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