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  • Comedian whose audition was a triumph! The audience gave him a standing ovation, and Amanda gave him a golden buzzer.

  • It's Daliso Chaponda!

  • (Cool music as Daliso enters)

  • I'm Daliso Chaponda. I'm 37. I am a malawian stand-up comedian, and I live in manchester

  • (Short loud trumpet-like noise)

  • So I started doing stand-up comedy in Canada. I was studying computer programming so I've come a quite sharp left turn.

  • I left Canada. I tried it in South Africa. I wasn't very good and then I moved to Manchester

  • (Music and Baby at the end of the music)

  • I travel all the time. I mean I've spent a lot of years of doing the circuit doing little clubs doing slightly bigger theaters

  • I would like to tour

  • Giant room screaming fans, and just always have an audience for my job. (Sassy snap) "Sometimes I think I don't appreciate myself!"

  • (Laughing, music enters and Amanda slaps golden buzzer)

  • When I got the golden buzzer... it was the last thing I expected

  • I was so happy. "You're bloody hilarious, and I really want you to win the entire series!"

  • Ever since Amanda has a golden buzzer

  • I've had those

  • 22 year old dreams come back into my head and think you can make it you'll be the next big thing you can make it

  • I've never won a competition. I think it's time that I won something. I really do!

  • It's my turn. I'm ready ready to

  • score the knockout punch

  • (Screaming)

  • (Laughing)

  • Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that welcome and thank Amanda for pushing that buzzer

  • Ever since then my life has been bonkers

  • People approaching me on the road saying well done, but the most common question I get is you're from where is it Mollie Maui?

  • But it's malawi and if any of you don't know where that is it's where Madonna adopted all the babies from

  • (Laughing)

  • Thats us!

  • Ya you're jealous. I do miss my little brother

  • (Laughing)

  • (Clapping)

  • and Angelina took my sister, so...

  • Been in the uk a while, I was tricked into moving here!

  • I was tricked because I was watching television, and I saw an angry guy came on television,

  • He said, "Oh, all these immigrants. They take all the good jobs, All the good women". I was like "Wow. That's what I'm looking for!"

  • (Laughing and clapping)

  • But I know sometimes comedy-(Unknown jamble) It's hard to laugh sometimes... cause the news is full of depressing stuff!

  • But I think the thing is it's misleading because amazing things happen every day little acts of kindness, but they don't report it

  • They put it on page 10 they open with the doom and gloom

  • If a BBC news of the made of yours, you'd never go over. look. I'm not going to that depressing barbecue

  • Imma go hand out with Cartoon Network but

  • [this] is amazing time to be alive people say stuff like oh, I miss the good old days

  • [but] all these were terrible we've got amazing stuff. We've got Wi-Fi

  • We've got rights we can vote

  • I'm black, [two] [hundred] years ago this would have been an auction!

  • oh

  • We've come a long way. That's all I'm saying

  • But even with the doom and gloom the m- the Malawian press is a lot worse than your press here

  • I'll tell you like I get the first ever comedy show in Malawi, which isn't an accomplishment. I'm the only stand-up comedian, right?

  • and I called the local press said send a reporter the editor said ah

  • Why don't you?

  • write the review Yourself and

  • You give me some money. [I] will say we wrote it. I

  • Was disgusted by the total lack of integrity in the Malawian press, but wow that was the [best] review ever got?

  • seven stars the Genius the African Michael Mcintyre

  • [that's] crazy. I'm on television right now because my ex always thought I wasn't ambitious enough

  • She always used to be like you're a comedian come on be more ambitious. [I] said hey

  • I'm happy she said you're not happy. [I] said I think I'm happy she said no be more ambitious

  • [I] did not sign up for somebody who's going nowhere. I snapped

  • [I] told her look you knew I wasn't ambitious the day. We met of all the women in the bar. I approached you

  • Yeah, you're laughing. I'm single now

  • I'm looking for love. I'll admit. I'm looking for love. You know got to get that citizenship. You know

  • But it's hard to date on a budget I

  • Remember going for then and the woman made a lot more money [than] me which is in the problem [were] in the 21st century

  • But I was ashamed [I] remember the waiter came up assumed. I was going to pay

  • Put the bill in front of me. I had to go, huh,

  • I'll get the next one

  • I'm so pathetic watching her pay. I wanted so badly to be part of the transaction so [I] just took the change I

  • Don't understand the British. I saw a beautiful British woman looking at a mirror upset. I said what's going on

  • She said can't you see it's a fat mirror

  • What do you mean the mirror looks fat she said this mirror makes me look fatter than I am I said well

  • I think my eyes have the same problem

  • I

  • Was not mocking her don't be angry with me. It was a cultural

  • [misunderstanding] I'm from Africa. [it's] different when we see someone overweight. We don't think going to diet

  • We're more like where did you get the food?

  • I think we gonna follow her home, heh. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, it's been a pleasure.

  • Thank you!

Comedian whose audition was a triumph! The audience gave him a standing ovation, and Amanda gave him a golden buzzer.

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