Munya Chawawa: Why Comedy Matters Right Now | GREAT MOMENTS
Great Company with Jamie Laing
Jampot
4.6 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Munya Chawawa is one of the sharpest and funniest voices on social media, known for his brilliantly observant takes on society, politics and the news cycle.
In this Great Moment, he explains why the real satisfaction in comedy comes from holding up a mirror to society - and getting people to question the world around them.
For Munya, comedy is more than entertainment. It’s a language we all share, and a powerful way to start conversations about the things that can be hardest to talk about.
Because sometimes the best way to make people think… is to make them laugh first.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang, and this is Great Moments. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey guys, welcome back to our great moments. Who do we have today? We have Munya Chihuahua. |
| 0:14.9 | Munya is the satirist and social media creator behind some of the sharpest and funniest social media content out there. |
| 0:20.1 | He's a genius. He's the best. We also did Gogglebox together. So if you saw Gogglebox, you'd see us doing that together. Now, in this great moment, we chat about how comedy can be one of the most powerful forms of communication. He certainly proves that. And how humor helps us tackle difficult topics, challenge politics, question the society we live |
| 0:37.8 | and all those kind of things. It's a great episode and we hope you like it. And if you really |
| 0:41.7 | like this little great moment, you can click on the full episode which is in the show description. |
| 0:46.3 | Just click on the link. Okay, you ready? Here we go. Enjoy this great moments with Munya Chihuahua. |
| 0:52.1 | Popa Bopopopopop daiaiaia. moments with Munya Chihuahua. |
| 1:02.7 | Do you know what's so amazing about your career? |
| 1:04.7 | You leave Sheffield, stunning psychology. |
| 1:06.9 | You decide that you want to go into this industry. |
| 1:12.5 | And, but you were told, unless you had 30,000 followers, you probably wouldn't get an agent. So you went, right, I'm going to go and post a video twice a week on my social |
| 1:17.1 | mate. So you made a video twice a week. I think it was four years or something until one of them |
| 1:21.5 | really popped off. Yes. So first of all, to get in that room, I would lie to agents |
| 1:26.3 | saying that I was Idrisalba's son in the email. In the email. And then oftentimes either they would figure out it was a joke and go, okay, you got me. Like, this is quite interesting. Come in. I want to meet you. Or they'll be like, you know, they would believe I was his son. So I get in there on this one occasion and they're like, look, we really liked your |
| 1:45.1 | email. It was very smart what you did. Watched your show real. It was good. You got, you know, you've got charisma. You got what it takes. But how many followers do you have? And I was like, I don't know, like 2,000. They went, no, no, no. If you had 30,000 followers, maybe we would have connected you to someone in the digital team. |
| 2:01.0 | So, I mentioned this |
| 2:03.0 | because it's a very important, it's very important within the dissection of what the term |
| 2:08.2 | influencer means, for example, right? I slightly have beef with the term because I think in many |
| 2:16.2 | cases, it disguises a person's actual talent or |
| 2:19.3 | skill right this is less in reference to me it's more in terms of my peers even what do you |
| 2:23.7 | mean by that so what I mean by it is this uh in press you know so okay so thus far in when I have |
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