Top 5 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Paraffin

Paraffin was a popular Zimbabwean comedian who rose to prominence in the early 1990s with the drama series ‘Paraffin’ that made him a household name and he was gone too soon but never forgotten. Paraffin died at the peak of his career on the 29th of June 1997. So talented was Paraffin that on many occasions he would go off script but still would not change the essence of the message being put across by the producers of the local comedy drama. Check out Top 5 Funny Facts You Didn’t Know About Paraffin below..

1. Born Phillip Gadzikwa Mushangwe.

2. Before venturing into a distinguished acting career, Mushangwe worked for Cresta Lodge as an accounts clerk and also for Greatermans department store as a salesman.

3. Paraffin was a talented actor who gained notoriety with his jaw-breaking humour. In the ‘Paraffin’ series, he acted as an illiterate individual and inconsiderate individual with no other purpose in life but to feed his stomach.

4. Also known as ‘Baba vaSorobhi’, Paraffin’s combination with Rhoda Mtembi (mai sorobhi) was so perfect that many people thought that the two were married in real life.

5. Here are some of his famous quotes below

• Ndamboti ndakaenda ku University here ini? Inongori scop medula blangata yangu inongori sharp.
• Amai Sorobhi izvi zvine mashura, ndati zvine mashura katsi kuitira tsvina pamusuwo nevakafundawo vane makuhwa . . . Makutoita clinic ino kaempire kenyu kehukamalism . . . Kutosvikawo panevamwe varume hanzi ndiri gentleman neiwo mazitye ezvikomba. Tikukwaziseizve vachitiviri ndimimunodayi kuchena nemazitye.