Comedian Churchill: I Turned Down Opportunity to Study at Chicago University

Veteran Kenyan comedian Daniel Ndambuki, well known as Churchill, says that he regrets having turned down an opportunity to study in the United States.

In an interview when he celebrated his 40th birthday recently, the entertainer, credited for nurturing hundreds of top comedians in the country through his Churchill Live show, said he had been given a scholarship to study drama at Chicago University but rejected it.

He admits that he could probably have achieved more by now had he embraced the opportunity to school at one of the most renowned institutions of higher learning in the world.

"You see after high school I could have joined drama school immediately. I got an opportunity to study drama via a scholarship in Chicago University in the United States but I hesitated. I let that chance go. Maybe if I had grabbed it, I would have been doing things differently today and maybe I would have been much better at comedy," He said.

He adds: "It has taken me a long time to get where I am right now, 15 years is quite some time you now. But I tend to think that had I joined Chicago University, I would have achieved what I have now earlier and faster. For instance, I would have learnt production earlier which is something I have had to take lessons on while on the job. Juggling production and comedy hasn’t been easy. Not having the knowledge of production earlier made me lose much both financially and creative wise."