Nosa Afolabi (born 20 April 1989),[1] better known as Lasisi Elenu, is a Nigerian comedian, actor, and Mc[2][3] from Offa, Kwara in Nigeria. One of Africa's most popular influencers, he is known for his skits with a 'wide mouth' disguise filter[4] during performances and on social media. Elenu was recently featured in Netflix thriller, The Ghost and the Tout.[5][6]
In 2018, he was nominated for The Future Awards Africa Prize for Comedy.[7][8][9][10] In March 2020, he was named one of Nigeria's Top 25 Under-30 Nigerian Superstars.[11] and he is a very funny entertainer who is into diverse areas of the entertainment industry as well as one of the winners of the second edition of the Trendupp Awards.[12][13][14]
Career
The comedian is one of the continent's most popular social media influencers with 75,000 followers on TikTok[15] and over 3.4million followers on Instagram.[16][17]
His skits focus on varying themes from law to cybercrime, the economy, insecurity[18][19] and philosophy. He started out as a musician[20] before diverting to the business of comedy. He performed at the Mama Tobi Homecoming concert.[21]
His most recent project, Mama & Papa Gods power, is a series of 16-minute episodes focusing on a low-income household in Nigeria.[22][23][24]
Personal life
In 2022, Lasisi Elenu married Nonso Adika, now Nonso Afolabi and the couple welcomed a daughter in October of the same year.[25][26][27][28]
Controversy struck in July 2020 when Elenu was warned by members of the Nigerian Bar Association, who claimed his jokes were misrepresenting the legal profession[33][34][35] and threatened to sue him.
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