Hear Chukwudi Iwuji make his debut in improv as he recalls how he conned his father into sending him from London to Yale in order to pursue theater under the guise of an Economics degree, and how a worn-out VHS tape of Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole’s “Becket” inspired him as a child growing up in Addis Ababa.

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