Isbae U Said He Didn't Want to Be "One of the Skit Makers," and Every Headline About That Quote Still Calls Him a Skit Maker

Isbae U went on The Morayo Show and explained why he pivoted from regular skits to his interview series, Curiosity Made Me Ask. His reasoning: "I was done being mediocre, being average. I didn't want to just be considered part of them, part of the skit makers, one of them." Bold statement. Confident delivery. The only issue is that literally every single article reporting this quote still opens with "skit maker Isbae U says..." Sir, the label followed you into the article about escaping the label. That's not an exit, that's a very persistent shadow.

To be fair to him though, the show itself has genuinely delivered. His guest list reads like someone built a random-generator and let it run wild: Pete Edochie, Kate Henshaw, Teni, Bella Shmurda, Bisola Aiyeola, Bobrisky, Tacha, Charly Boy, and then, somehow, sitting right in that same lineup, former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Not just appearing either. Singing along to the viral "I remember when I was a soldier" sound, on camera, with Isbae U right there hosting it like it was the most normal booking in the world. A former Nigerian head of state doing a TikTok meme moment on a former skit maker's couch is genuinely one of the funniest sentences Nigerian entertainment has produced this year, and somehow it's just... a Tuesday for this show now.

Isbae U says he still writes content for other people quietly, in case anyone thought he'd fully retired from the skit game. And his real dream now is landing an interview with Donald Trump, which, considering the man already got a former Nigerian president to sing a meme song on request, is honestly not the craziest ambition on the list anymore.

From "one of the skit makers" to potentially interviewing a sitting US president. Growth really does move fast when you commit to the bit.