Mark Angel (born 27 May 1991) is a

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comedian, scriptwriter, and video producer. He is best known for the Mark Angel Comedy series of shorts on

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, often featuring child

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s such as his cousin, Emmanuella Samuel (age ), his niece, and her cousin "Aunty" Success Madubuike (age 8). Angel's YouTube channel was the first African comedy channel to reach one million subscribers. Mark angel also has a wife who also acts comedy at mark angel comedy caretaker series with his fellow actors which are Mr Azu, Baze10, Ebere, The Law, Mimi, Kingsley Brown.

Early and personal life

Angel was born in 1991 in Port Harcourt,

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. He attended Obafemi Awolowo University to study medicine, but left for family reasons. After college, he studied cinematography in India and spent time in Nigeria gaining experience in

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and

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, but could not find stable paying work in

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. He began

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making in 2013 under his studio, Mechanic Pictures. He is a supporter of Chelsea FC. He can understand both Igbo and

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, the two most-spoken native languages in Nigeria.

Mark Angel Comedy

Angel is best known for Mark Angel Comedy, a series of YouTube comedy shorts that feature a number of people from Angel's family and neighborhood in Port Harcourt. Many of the shorts involve clever children, primarily Emmanuella and Success. Angel's first well known short is "Oga Landlord," wherein a man late on rent (Angel) is trying to hide from his landlord (Daddy Humble), and tries in vain to have a child (Emmanuella) cover for him (e.g. "My uncle is not around. He just told me."). Samuel is Angel's longest-appearing actress. She has won comedy awards in Nigeria and

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for her work with Angel, and is Africa's youngest YouTube award winner. She started film work in school as part of a class video project, prior to being chosen by Angel for his stable of actors. Samuel's videos often reach up to a million views in the first week after posting. Mark Angel Comedy received a plaque from YouTube for having reached one million subscriptions in 2017. It was the first Nigerian-based YouTube channel to reach that threshold. In 2018 it was announced that Samuel would be attached to an upcoming

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feature film. On 2 April 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdowns, Emmanuella, Success, and Regina Daniels were featured in a skit by Ofego titled " Lockdown" on his YouTube channel, using archive footage.

1xBet ambassador

In the summer of 2021, Mark Angel signed a contract with

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, an online gambling company popular in Nigeria.

Social media presence

Angel has tens of millions of followers on

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, including 12 million followers on Facebook, 1.5 million on Instagram, 1 million on

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, and 8 million subscribers on YouTube.

Film style

Mark Angel works mostly with multiple camera formats and close camera angles. Filming sometimes includes shaky camera techniques to give them a natural and down-to-earth feel, something Angel calls "freestyle comedy." Angel primarily films within his family's lower-class neighbourhood in Port Harcourt, as a means to portray the environment he grew up in and relate to other common people in Nigeria.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Angel, Mark 1991 births Living people Nigerian film producers Nigerian male comedians People from Port Harcourt People from Rivers State Comedy YouTubers Nigerian YouTubers Nigerian media personalities Nigerian screenwriters Igbo comedians Igbo people