Majah Hype’s nationality is one of comedy’s best kept secrets.

The New York-based comedian likes to say he’s simply from the Caribbean.

“If I said I was Bermudian the Bermudians would flock to my shows, but other people would be disappointed and stop coming,” he said. “You know how Caribbean people are. I want to be a unifier for Caribbean people.”

It’s a formula that seems to be working for the man who bills himself “The King of Caribbean Comedy”. Some of his one-man skits have been looked at more than 650,000 times on YouTube and Instagram, and he’s done comedy all over the United States, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.

Next Friday, he’ll be turning his wit on Bermuda when he stars in the Curing Cancer with Comedy show, organised by Hustle Entertainment. He also performed for Hustle last November.

He’s staying mum about material for his latest Bermuda show, but Hustle Entertainment organiser Hafiz Dill is hoping he’ll finally do a Bermudian accent.

“I’m almost positive he’ll try,” said Mr Dill. “He was practising after last year’s show, and he’d almost got it down pat.”

Hype said he felt right at home in Bermuda.

“Bermuda has the same kindness and respectability that many islands do in the Caribbean,” he said. “Everyone says good morning. Of course, we all have our histories and culture, but as far as our personalities and morals go, we are all the same.”

Hustle will donate $5 from every ticket sold to Bermuda Cancer and Health.

“Cancer is a topic dear to my heart,” Hype said. “Eight years ago, my grandmother developed breast cancer. I didn’t immediately think the worst. I knew it was fightable. My family is very religious and we prayed about it.”

He and his family were overjoyed when two years later she was deemed cancer free.

“She’s still alive today and in her nineties,” he said. “She’s never made it to one of my shows, but she clips out everything that’s written about me. She’s very proud of me.”

A talent for comedy and accent imitation emerged when he was a child.

“I always liked to joke around,” he said. “My family said I should be on the stage. They thought I was naturally funny. But I wasn’t interested in comedy when I was younger. I was more interested in music. By the time I was 9 or 10, I played seven or eight instruments. My main instrument was the alto sax.”

When he moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York, at age 12, he had a difficult time.

“As a child changing up your environment, it can be difficult transitioning into things,” he said. “Back then, Caribbean people weren’t acknowledged as much as we are today. We were called The Banana Boat Kid and Coconut and names like that. Eventually, ignorance transitioned into respecting Caribbean cultures. People like Marcus Garvey and Bob Marley made a voice in America that was from the Caribbean.”

He said he eventually adapted, taking on an American accent.

“But I also had my family at home who still spoke the way they always had,” he said. New York gave him exposure to many other accents.

“It’s one of the most diverse cities in the world,” he said. As an adult, he worked as a DJ with a group called Massive B, and also as an electrician.

He finally took his family’s advice and started dabbling in comedy six years ago by posting funny memes about Caribbean culture on Instagram. Then he lost his job as an electrician.

“I didn’t see it as the end of the world,” he said. “I am always a positive person.”

He threw himself more into comedy and began making videos comparing different Caribbean cultures.

One of his most popular, When You Try to Rob A West Indian, compares how different Caribbean cultures might react to a mugging. He plays a Grenadian, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Jamaican, a Bajan and an American mugger all in the span of one minute and 19 seconds.

“It went viral,” he said.

To date, the skit has had 698,849 views on YouTube. Most of his videos are meant for mature audiences and contain profanity and adult topics.

Not long after he started posting videos, he was asked to do stand-up comedy at a college.

He had no idea how much comedians were paid, so he gave his fee as $300.

Since then, he’s figured out a few things, and is now making a comfortable living cracking jokes full-time. He does stand-up comedy all over the United States, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom.

In July, 2016 he released his first independent film Foreign Minds Think Alike. It can be seen on Vimeo.

Curing Cancer with Comedy will be hosted by Rashaun Reese and will also feature American comedian Meme Simpson.

The show will be held at the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium at CedarBridge Academy. Doors open at 7.30pm and the show starts at 9pm.

General admission is $60 and VIP is $85 available at Ptix.bm.

•Look for Majah Hype on YouTube and Instagram.