On Sunday night Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston was transformed into a classroom with the acts being the teachers and host Elva Ruddock the principal for the staging of the stand up comedy event, Mi Nah Laugh.

From the get go, it was clear that students would not be able to keep a straight face during lessons.

Kicking off the first course was comedian Leighton Smith. It’s amazing how he can saunter on stage all easy and relaxed, wearing a dead pan expression and yet manage to deliver belly-busting jokes.

Grandfather and Son managed to score with their ‘old man vs young boy’ dance routine.

The minute comedian Tubeless came on the stage you couldn’t help but smile. On the fat side of life, he came on in an outfit with the words printed across his chest “lose weight, ask me how!”

His ability to play on words while being naughty proved to be a winner as he skilfully gave the ingredients for making love. Tubeless also seemed comfortable being overweight as he gave his idea of a balanced diet — “two plates with the same amount of food fully stocked.”

Zimbo never managed to make that connection with the crowd — and when he indicated he had one more poem to do — the crowd showed they had had enough by clapping loudly .

Lecturer, who ruled in the days at the now defunct Cactus night-club, was back with some of his same old jokes — and some updated ones which hit the funny bone.

Hilarious Granny knows just how to “work the crowd” and that (s)he did ensuring that (s)he had them cracking up with the stage antics and funny dance moves.

When he invited two women on stage — one slim and the fat and dubbed the danceoff Spice vs Pamputtae — the crowd went wild. The women who proved to be good sports , gave the crowd something extra in their attempt to outdo each other.

Dwight Samuels started off well, but unfortunately most of his jokes were not ‘fresh’. However, one joke found its target and that was a crack at dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel bleaching. “We have a lot of white artiste doing dancehall, but wi proud a Kartel, a fi wi own white bwoy dat!”

The crowd could not contain their laughter when Christopher ‘Johnny’ Daley zoned in on the ‘Mannat Floops and Fleps” circus.

In between acts host Elva made it impossible for anyone to keep a straight face in the house with her witty comments and suggestive jokes.

Sometimes the members in the audience came under fire from the sharp-tongued comedian as she engaged them in friendly banter. This proved to be just as entertaining as the comedians on the stage.

Even when she was chiding them for their uncharitable behaviour to repeat jokes she still managed to stay in their good books, “jokes affi repeat, it’s the nature of comedy. Low di comedians, some haffi repeat. When deejays perform the same thing over and over unno raay!”

Rohan Gunter organiser of the event delivered the last lethal blow of the evening which brought the house down, “Vybz Kartel celebrate Black History month in a different way — his black is history!”