{"id":112169,"date":"2019-09-16T17:27:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=112169"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:27:49","slug":"i-used-to-shave-the-dead-comedian-mtumishi-opens-up-about-his-hustle-before-the-his-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/i-used-to-shave-the-dead-comedian-mtumishi-opens-up-about-his-hustle-before-the-his-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI used to shave the dead!\u201d Comedian Mtumishi opens up about his hustle before the his breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Mtumishi did not start off at the top. Just like most comedians the fella worked his way to the top but after going through a few challenges here and there.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview with the Nairobian, Mtumishi revealed that he was once a street-boy but life got hard and was forced to find a new job.<\/p>\n<p>Mtumishi was then forced to look for a job at the mortuary where he became a barber for the dead. He opened up saying;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I worked as a barber in a mortuary. I used to shave the dead. It was a tough job, though it gave birth to my career. One day, I shaved a friend of mine and that experience really haunted me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Higher calling<\/h3>\n<p>According to Mtumishi, shaving his late friend left him traumatized and decided to exploit his talent and this is how he ended up at the Churchill show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I went back home and did a bit of soul searching. My dream was to be a comedian or actor and I knew, I was not going to die before achieving this. I decided that I will no longer seek employment but rather, exploit my talent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Mtumishi did not start off at the top. Just like most comedians the fella worked his way to the top but after going through a few challenges here and there. Speaking during an interview with the Nairobian, Mtumishi revealed that he was once a street-boy but life got hard and was forced to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6017,"featured_media":112170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97952,19,474],"class_list":["post-112169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ghafla-enetertainment-news","tag-ghafla-kenya","tag-mtumishi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112243,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112169\/revisions\/112243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}