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MC Fungututi

MC Fungututi alias Brian Kirui Wamalwa is a Kenyan comedian, TV Producer and marketer who has featured in various TV dramas and comedy shows as an actor and performer respectively and also produced and directed comedy shows for the recently launched Kenyatta University based TV station Kenyatta University Television-KUTV. He is also a show host and a professional events MC.

Family and Early Life
MC Fungututi, born Brian Kirui Wamalwa was raised in Bungoma County on the slopes of Mount Elgon by his two parents. His mother, a primary school teacher moved with him across schools in her transfers until completion of his Primary School education where he joined Chesamisi High School, also in Bungoma County. It is there where he developed interest in the arts and started performing in the Kenya Secondary Schools Drama Festival and music festival as an acclaimed young actor and performer. He was later to join the Kenyatta University.

Early Career
MC Fungututi was admitted to Kenyatta University after his High School education to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Education (B.Ed Arts) in 2008 and it is there where he discovered his true joy de vivre was in the performing arts. Kenyatta University is a well known Kenyan institution of higher learning that serves as an Alma Mater to a majority of professional artists in Kenya. There were two major theatre groups in KU at that time; the Kenyatta University Travelling Theatre-KUTT and Triple E theatre. KUTT was mainly for Theatrical plays and Triple E centered majorly on comedy. Fungututi’s childhood friend, Boniface Lukunza, an actor on KTN’s TV Show, Gavana served as a great influence at that time and made him audition for Triple E theatre group. Here he established and grew his comedy scripting skills and directed many short skits, performed in official university functions from his second year: Matriculation and Graduation ceremonies among others. He became a household name around KU as an actor, comedian and MC for Triple E and there shows. His journey to stardom began then.

Professional Career
In 2012, the Kenyatta University AIDS Control Unit partnered up with I Choose Life-ICL and organized a comedy competition dubbed Night of 10000 Laughs where the winner bagged a whooping Ksh. 10 000. It was a tight competition and Churchill Show’s Sleepy David won the cash prize. MC Fungututi finished in the top 5. Among the attendees of the competition were high profile comedians and comedy TV producers among them Raptcha Tha Sayantist, a popular comedy icon and currently a radio host with Hot 96. This opened up doors for him. He was featured in K24’s comedy show LOL that was later scrapped from the TV station on its first season. In advancement of his acting career, MC Fungututi was featured as a recurring actor in many TV Dramas, the most notable being his role in the highly rated family drama; Lies that Bind, the first season of Dramas of Life, Citizen TV’s Machachari in 2015 among many others. He was also a recurrent standup comic at Churchill Show open mic in 2012. In January 2015, MC Fungututi pulled a great show before the former Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olive Mugenda among many other KU dignitaries during the trophy handing over ceremony for sports and arts at the Kenyatta University Amphitheater. He terms his performance then as “my breakthrough performance” that also came in handy. Kenyatta University as on the verge of launching their TV Station and as a bid to recognize and support young talent, Prof. Olive Mugenda on her address offered MC Fungututi a job for his consideration. He accepted the offer and was contracted by KUTV as a TV Producer, Content Developer and Marketer. In his period there he has Produced, co-hosted and starred in one of the biggest comedy shows in Kenya, the Comic Show, directed part of the first season of the etiquette show, Wacha Ufala which he also produces and a new soon o be launched TV show – The Office. He is highly motivated and eyes at being an international brand and also taking his shows outside Kenya. His key drivers to excellence are persistence, perseverance and patience.