The recently crowned king of comedy, Eric Omondi, is mostly known for his hilarious jokes and acts but very few people know of his career before comedy.
Speaking exclusively to Kenyans.co.ke, the comedian narrated his journey before the famous Churchill live show broadcasted on NTV.
Eric went to Daystar University, pursued Journalism and was granted the opportunity to practice his internship at NTV.
"NTV at the time used to have a program called Story Moja, where they would scout for young journalists from various institutions to do storytelling," he began.
"The prize was an 8-month internship. The event held at Impala and the former CEO of Nation Media Group Linus Gitahi was in attendance. I did a narrative titled Utensils and I emerged the best and that is how I got the Internship that went from part of 2006 to 2007," he narrated.
During the period, he would do tags and tickers(the writing that appears below the screen during news hour) and on Saturdays, he would do storytelling for a kids program.
Like most journalists, Eric disclosed that his ultimate goal was to become a news anchor, but that was not to be.
"I wanted to read news but I was fascinated by reporting. I loved going out to look for stories," the comedian recalled.
Towards the close of 2008 to early 2009, I began reporting. I went all the way to Kampala in Uganda where I did one story about the Kabaka and the Buganda Kindom.
Later on, he embarked on a feature story in Athi river where he met Daniel Ndambuki alias Churchill.
This saw Eric switch from the newsroom department to production as a comedian.
"I was in the newsroom for three years and only left NTV in 2010 after leaving Churchill show," the king of comedy stated.
Eric left the show stating that he needed to create room for budding comedians.
"Churchill nurtured me but it got to a point when he had so many budding comedians in the show. I felt like a 42-year-old who lives with their mother. I also felt like I was eating up the space of young upcoming artistes,” he stated.
