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Nigerian Wicked
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A breathless trailer narrator presents Nigerian Wicked, the latest knockoff from a Nollywood studio. Trainee witches Glinda and Elphaba share a pink dorm room and clash at once: there is a slap, an argument about class and a lingering smell of egg, while their lessons are taught by an actual goat. After a makeover the pair travel to LagOz to ask the fabulously rich Wizard for favours, Glinda wanting a designer handbag and Elphaba a gravity-defying cosmetic procedure, only to find that he is broke and can offer them nothing but Baileys Irish Cream. The trailer then rushes through drama, flying monkeys and the late news that the whole film is a musical, before rolling a garbled cast list that ends with Cynthia Erivo's full name.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 3
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Come to find out, the wizard is broke.
Also, the whole thing is a musical.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Ayoade Bamgboye
Writer
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Written by cast member Ayoade Bamgboye and directed by Will Farrell. Cynthia Erivo, who played Elphaba in the Wicked films, plays Glinda here. Hammed Animashaun also voices the trailer narration. Chortle reported that the clip drew more than 4.5 million views across YouTube, Instagram and TikTok within two days of broadcast.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
From Holy Ghost Productions, the producer of classic Nollywood films, comes another blockbuster with a stressful sound mix. Nigerian Wicked. Glinda and Elphaba are studying to be witches.
- 00:14
Glinda ?
I'm a witch.
- 00:15
Elphaba ?
So am I.
- 00:18
Elphaba
Glinda, you slapped me.
- 00:20
Glinda
Yes, because you are very classless.
- 00:24
Glinda ?
What's that smell?
- 00:25
Elphaba ?
It's egg.
- 00:27
Glinda doesn't like egg, so the relationship is very strained. but all is not well in the land of leg oars why are you not talking goat talk the goat is the professor now the witches must become friends and have a makeover
- 00:45
Elphaba
linda i can't afford this
- 00:48
Glinda ?
when we get to the wizard it will all pay off
- 00:50
Elphaba ?
the wizard
- 00:51
Glinda ?
the wizard
- 00:52
Elphaba ?
but i'm a virgin
- 01:00
the journey to the wizard begins now he lives there in the emerald water and emerald city they say he's very rich that he can make anything appear that's why they call him the wizard what were you asking for
- 01:16
Glinda ?
i want him to get my birkin
- 01:17
Elphaba ?
i want a skinny bbl
- 01:19
she wants a bbl that defies gravity give it to them Jigu, Jigu. Can we Come on, stop that?
- 01:39
The Wizard ?
Hello pretty ladies.
- 01:41
This is the wizard?
- 01:43
The Wizard
Yeah, I'm the wizard, yeah.
- 01:45
I thought you said you had no legs. What do you call this? That's a no legs. That's funny, that's what they call it at the market.
- 01:53
Come to find out, the wizard is broke.
- 01:55
The Wizard ?
Can I offer you pretty ladies some Baileys Irish cream?
- 02:00
Excuse me, who are these people?
- 02:02
The Wizard ?
Then my cousin, how do you like the Baileys Irish Creme?
- 02:07
Hmm, it's all. This movie has drama. Look at you! Get to the grass! It has flying monkeys. Where did they get these? Get down! Also, the whole thing is a musical. Ayoade Bagubori and Cynthia Onye-Dimnazu China-Isoku Oezuki Amarachuku Ochimina Inigo. Also known as Cynthia Inigo. So what do we do now? Nigerian weekend! LGBTQ
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