On Saturday at the Expo it may have been all business but on Friday night at the bliss, it was laughs by the bellyfull at the George Mckesey national story telling and comedy championships. Taking top honors for both comedy and story telling was consummate performer DJ Kenny Morgan. Morgan first regaled the audience with his story about his uncle Leroy, known as "preacher lee" who claimed to need only the powers of god to fend off any adversary. To prove him wrong a friend took him on a hunt for a tiger, and here's what happened when that tiger met the indomitable preacher Lee:
Kenny Morgan - Comic
“Preacher Lee said: Watch this fool…
And the tiger is coming, and the tiger is coming and it’s getting closer.
And my boy is hanging on good because he said: When this tiger bite this fool I’ll see if he is going to try to run up this tree.
And the tiger is coming…
And Preacher Lee, my uncle, is there flipping pages. When the tiger is just about to reach him, he drops on the ground and begins to pray.
And the tiger is coming…
My boy on the tree almost fell on his head…
Because the tiger is coming harder and the tiger brakes… he stops… walks around leeroy, begins to smell him.
He almost fell from the tree when the tiger kneels down and started to pray too…
Imagine that…
The man so frightened he lost his grip and falls and he says: what preacher Lee, you are a bad boy.
The tiger is praying and preacher Lee takes his time and gets up dusts himself off and he says: when I tell you I have powers my boy believe in me because I’m dead serious. Me bad preacher Lee…
Tiger says: Mr. Why don’t you have any manners? Why are you making noise when I’m saying my Grace Before Meals?”
For each first place award, Morgan won one thousand dollars. The event's namesake Geroge Mckesey was a famed Belizean storyteller.