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I will continue to act, crack fun as a stand up comedian for as long as I’m alive, healthy and hearty.” - Comedian Rosaline

By: alusinerehme.wilson@awokonewspaper.sl


One of Sierra Leone’s funniest comedian and actor of the famous Wan-Pot Television Show Ernest Horner alias “Rosaline” has said in a latest catch-up with Awoko Newspaper in Makeni that he’s still into comedy.

The decorated comedian who started his comedy journey in 1982 was among the pool of Entertainers  who were honored at the 4th Faces of the North Entertainment Awards-(FaNEA) 2022 Edition where he was gifted a honorary award for his outstanding work and consistency in the creative industry as both a comedian and actor.

In real life, Horner is famous nationally and internationally for his creativity and top-notch level delivery as a female character with his popular name “Rosaline.”

With his female nomenclature Rosaline, in the last decades, the experienced comedian has been acting throughout as a a house wife during the reign of the “Wan-Pot” comedy show that was broadcasted live on the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Services television now know as the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation.

In the field of comedy, Horner has acted together with the Late Foday Balion, Sarah D’Great, Jaokateh, Vanboi, Jabes and many others.

And in the last decade until now, Horner has slightly switched his acting career as he ventured on high into the national movie industry and has so far being featured in a lot of Sierra Leonean films.

Many movie makers, enthusiasts and other shakers of the industry believed Comedian Rosaline’s popularity is intensifying on a daily basis among both upcoming Actors and Actresses he has crossed path with and is still rolling with.

“To me personally and many others in the movie industry, Mr. Horner is beyond our rolling mate but remains a mentor,” Iscandri Sankoh, a Film Director making movies in the Northern region said.

Besides Comedy and Acting, comedian Rosaline is also a staff of the Sierra Leone Fire Force and is currently attached at the Wellington fire station in the country’s capital Freetown where he is gainfully employed as the fire station commander in the area.

With a broad smile on his face, Ernest “Rosaline” Horner while speaking to Awoko Newspaper’s Alusine Rehme Wilson during the FaNEA Awards ceremony said that, “I’m not ready to retire yet from being a comedian, I will continue to act and crack fun as a stand up comedian for as long as I’m alive, healthy and hearty.”

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