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Jordane Ngassa's Bar: Breaking Down a Cameroonian Web-Comedy Phenomenon

An open-air counter, a handful of comedians crossing paths from one channel to the next: how Jordane Ngassa's "bar" became a recurring fixture of Cameroonian online comedy.

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Jordane Ngassa's bar is real — not a place you visit, but a sketch setting that has become a regular fixture of Cameroonian online comedy, sometimes labelled "Bar Show" on Moustik le Karismatik's Facebook page. An open-air counter serves as the backdrop for neighbourhood disputes, debt stories and rumours, in episodes later reposted across the various participants' channels. As fans often put it, it's a bar "you won't find on Google Maps, but everyone knows."

Jordane Ngassa is the fixed point. According to Cameroonian outlet Écrans Noirs & Blancs, which interviewed her in April 2026, she's a rising figure in Cameroonian entertainment: beyond the bar, where she plays the owner or Moustik's stage partner in sketches racking up millions of views, she has also acted on screen — notably in the film Les prostituées converties — and holds a background in marketing and communications. Her own YouTube channel (just over 2,000 subscribers, 385 videos) serves as the starting point for some episodes, where the day's plot usually revolves around her — a dispute with a "brother-in-law," a debt to settle in front of witnesses.

The concept is co-led by Moustik le Karismatik, real name Hubert Martial Tagne Tagne, a comedian born in Yaoundé and known since 2010, when his sketch "Le témoignage de Lucas" made him known on state broadcaster CRTV. With 588,000 subscribers on his own channel, he most often hosts the episodes shot at the bar, under recurring titles like "Moustik Karismatik feat mythique bar" — the latest published in early September 2026.

Another regular, Haricot — real name Georges Edzisna, sometimes credited "Haricot Beans" — belongs to the collective Les Rigolards de Mbalmayo, a group of comedians from Mbalmayo, in Cameroon's Centre region, founded under the name Vimli, the town's former name. The collective claims about 110,000 subscribers on YouTube and close to 600,000 on Facebook, alongside other regular members like Moa Minga or Stivo la Vitesse. His running gag at the bar: threatening to "bite" his opponents, a line endlessly quoted in episode comments despite the recurring joke about his missing teeth.

Babadi — or "Mista Babadi," real name Emmanuel Nke — and Del Piso — real name Eric Manga — round out this trio of Rigolards de Mbalmayo regulars alongside Haricot, under producer Ghislain Amougou. Del Piso's collaboration with Jordane Ngassa goes back several years, well before the bar's recent popularity (joint appearances date back to 2022), and he has since developed his own spin-off, "Le Comptoir," on the collective's channel.

Around this trio orbit more occasional participants: Grand Barack, Arthur Paye, rapper Ténor, creator Eric le Retour, or crossovers with other Cameroonian comedy channels like Defo Premier TV (Defo Premier, Blacky Star) or Fingon Tralala Officiel, which has for instance staged an "undercover spy" commenting on political news from the bar.

The format is anything but a fixed series: new episodes keep coming out across different channels, with no announced schedule, which partly explains why no single channel centralises all of the bar's episodes.

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