The two popular casts of the Mark Angel comedy, Mark Angel and cousin Emmanuelle who rose to fame after a short while of venturing into the comedy business have shared how they almost lost their platform.
According to Mark Angel, he almost sold out the Facebook page to one popular company in Nigeria at a whooping sum of over N100 million.
He disclosed that if not that he later realized that money is not all that matters in live that by now many people that used their Facebook page as a source of joy and laughter would by now have given up on life.
He said;
“Recently, a company wanted to buy out our Facebook page. I thought it as a scam but this company is well known and they offered us $400,000 when I converted it to Naira, it was more than N100million (N144m). My first thought was ‘guys lets sell it. But we can’t sell it because it’s not all about money. Money cannot buy what we do. If you think about it, you can sell it and start again but there are people who can only get a laugh through that channel and by selling it, you will deny them that chance,” Mark Angel said.
He also shared reasons to why all of his videos are been done in port Harcourt rather than Lagos and he revealed that the cost of settling agbero’s is too high in Lagos.
He said,
“To work in Lagos is very hard. If you want to start shooting, Agbero’s will come and start demanding outrageous sums of money from you. There was a time we were asked to pay N170, 000 settling these touts before we were allowed to shoot. That’s why we shoot in PH and market our skits in Lagos”.
