It is only two years ago, Melvin Kakooza won the DM in the standup and made his name as one of them, you should keep an eye on.
Now he is outright hard to miss.
in addition to his career as a standupkomiker has a 28-year-old Melvin Kakooza, in record time, moved into the screen in the very best broadcasting time in the programmes as ‘the Grandmaster’, ‘all black’ and not least the tv series ‘Sunday’, which right now is running on its second season.
the Latter series has the comedian even created in collaboration with director Jesper Rofelt, and here plays Melvin Kakooza kenyan Sunday, who come to Denmark to play in the football club FC Fredericia.
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the Series is inspired by Melvin Kakooza and his parents ‘ own experiences as they came to Denmark in the early 90’s. And the main character, Sunday, has the traits from both his father and his mother.
– the Idea with the series is to collect some of all the prejudices and the things that lie in the meeting of cultures that happens when you come from abroad and Denmark, explains Melvin Kakooza.
– There are so many small things that can quickly be misunderstood, he explains.
He was himself only a year and a half old when his parents moved from Uganda to Denmark – more specifically the town of Fredericia.
Melvin Kakooza together with Theresa Kofoed. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
Here it was not everyone who welcomed the african family the warmest welcome.
– My mother experienced violent things, when she came to Denmark. But she chose not to break her down, explains Melvin Kakooza.
– She has experienced that there were some who threw tomatoes at her and said that she should take home. So total she the tomatoes up and took them home and cooked with them, they should not go to waste, says Melvin Kakooza.
– the Entire mindset, as my mother has, and she has taught me, is the nature Sunday built up around the, he tells.
Several of the things he experienced as a child, he has made to the scenes in ‘Sunday’.
He remembers, among other things, how his father after a successful visit by a put and take lake, where he had caught the fish and got them home, thought, that the same principle applied in the local park, where there were klappegeder around.
The episode has Melvin used in the series, where he’s going to make stew out of the a ged from a school.
– All the situations in ‘Sunday’ is taken from something that happened in reality, and I think it makes it more real and easier to understand, says Melvin Kakooza, who is happy that he can use some of the funny stories about his father in the series.
When the comedian was 11-12 years old, his parents divorced. Since then, he has no contact had for his father.
– To have a father who disappears out of his life, when one is so young, has of course influenced me the whole game. But to tell all the good things about him have done, that I am not bitter and sour, he says and elaborates:
– It has been a sort of therapy for me to tell all the funny stories about my dad, also although there have been many bad. But if you sit down in the hole, so you accept that you’ve lost, he says.
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In high school he took an active decision to focus on the good, as his mother has taught him.
– There I said to myself: ‘Ok, you have two options now: Either you can be bitter about, that you do not have had a father like everyone else, or you can also choose to think that you have an insanely strong mother and an insanely strong family and enjoy it,’ explains Melvin Kakooza.
The strong family include an uncle in Kenya who also is in the first season of “Sunday”, as his mother also plays with in the series.
On the way ‘Sunday’ a bit of a familieprojekt. It is also through conversations with the family in Uganda, to Melvin Kakooza has quite found the right body language and just the right accent to Sunday.
And then he has been a frequent guest with his Turkish friends and their families, where he has practiced on how to behave when one does not understand a word of what is being said.
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Melvin Kakooza, who originally studied to become a teacher, as komikerkarrieren took off, had no skuespilerfaring, when he first stepped onto the set of ‘Sunday’, where it is managed and director Jesper Rofelt, to score big names to the cast.
– It was nerve racking to sit on the side of the table and having to hire people for my small project, tells Melvin Kakooza, who among other things has to Esben Christensen, Birthe Neumann and Lars Hjortshøj ” the idea for ‘Sunday’.
While the former footballer Thomas Gravesen made a so-called cameo, where he appeared as himself in the series in season one, among others, AGF-coach David Nielsen and greece, and goalkeeping coach, Lars Høgh, with in season two, which right now can be streamed and viewed on the YouSees tv channel, Xee.
Even try Melvin Kazooka to take the attention and the success in stride.
– It is not really gone up for me, that there has been so much in a short time. But that is not really the time to wade around in the success, for that is all the time a new task in front of me, he says.
– Our sayings at home is your feet on the ground and head in the sky. You need to be humble and take things quietly, but you must also go with tall and believe in themselves, he says.
