Skit maker Officer Woos has opened up on why he walked away from the police comedy that made him famous, saying the character started to feel like a trap.
Speaking on the BTS Reality Show podcast, the comedian said creators, not viewers, were the ones who grew tired after years of the same grind.
“I believe many people got tired of skit making, not viewers I mean the creators doing something for almost 6 years and at that point everybody started seeing money and the platform where we were seeing the money stopped paying, so it felt like wasted effort to post on instagram when facebook isn’t paying anymore. Everyone started looking for alternative ways to make money,” he said.
He added that being famous for a niche was not enough reason to stay stuck.
“Just because I’m known for skit making doesn’t mean I’ll die on it even when it stopped paying when I have a family to feed. Personally, I got tired of skits and doing Police content, but the brand name was already Officer Woos and I was fine with that. I wanted to do other things and explore other ideas. I do a court room comedy show, a mechanic series, and some other things because I was tired of the police content and I didn’t want to keep forcing it.”
The numbers he shared were even sharper.
“It took me 2 years to make my first ₦1M from skitmaking. I was missing out on $200K monthly from Facebook and YouTube while begging brands for ₦100K on Instagram which they’d sometimes price down to ₦70k. I made sure my brother Shank didn’t make the same mistake when he started skit making.”
Officer Woos, whose real name is Jubril Oladapo Gbadamosi, built his name as a stammering police officer after breaking out around 2019 in videos with Broda Shaggi. He studied Theatre Arts at the University of Lagos and later expanded into longer YouTube comedy, including titles such as Oga Mecho.
His account lines up with a wider shift in Nigerian skit culture. Facebook once paid creators heavily for short videos. When those payouts dropped, many of the same faces who once posted daily comedy began chasing YouTube series, livestreams, brand deals and other formats. Woos said Instagram brand rates never matched what the bigger platforms had offered, and that begging for ₦100,000 deals after watching larger sums slip away felt like a loss.