Josh2Funny: “The year after my viral ‘don’t leave me challenge’, everything went down for me”

How did Josh2Funny go from high school drop out to being one of Nigeria’s truly international comic acts - delivering multiple trending topics from ‘gbas gobs’ to ‘don’t leave me’?

How did he survive feeling he was inferior to his peers in secondary school (he said to me “poverty defined my life” to being supremely confident today?

He shares exclusively the testimony of how he was praying when he got the call from America’s Got Talent. He tells me how that is the most beautiful moment that has ever happened in his life.

This made me smile so much.

But he tells me that after he was on America’s Got Talent, some of his family and friends told him he messed up! And then the very first comment he saw on social media was a negative one from a blogger.

What did that teach him? Why is he going into music next? And how did he survive a surgery last year after about 11 years (!) of excruciating pain - and why didn’t he do the surgery earlier?

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