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Wan Pot’s Rosaline: I’m still into comedy

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson 

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 AWE-MEDIA.SL in Makeni that he’s still into comedy.

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

Horner a male in real life is famous for his creativity and top level delivery as a female character with his popular Rosaline role acting throughout as a house wife during the “Wan-Pot” comedy show that was nationally shown on television in the last decades.

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

In the last decade until now, Horner took his acting career on high as he fully ventured into the national movie industry and has so far being featured in a lot of Sierra Leonean films where he now remains very popular among upcoming Actors and Actresses he has crossed path with ash is still rolling with who sees him as a mentor.

The comedian who 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 as the commander.

With a broad smile on his face, Ernest “Rosaline” Horner while speaking to AWE-MEDIA.SL’s Alusine Rehme Wilson on Saturday discloses further that, he’s “not ready to retire yet from being a comedian and that he will continue to act and crack fun as a stand up commedian for as long as he is being healthy and hearty.”

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