WATCH | Kuhle Sonkosi hits one out the park with his videos

From deciding what to do on a Friday night to analysing Christmas lunch and commenting on his newest haircut, Kuhle Sonkosi’s videos have proven that everything is worth a TV interview.

So much so that the Woodridge College rugby coach uses his sporting experience to offer “pre and postgame” commentary on topics as simple as washing the dishes in a series of videos garnering engagement from thousands of Twitter users.

Sonkosi, 28, started recording the videos as a pastime and shared them with a small circle of friends before posting them on Twitter.

“I love sport and I try to bring sport into everything I do.

“When you’re on lockdown and can’t play sport, you try to find ways that will keep you thinking about sport.

“So I thought, let me bring my love for sports interviews into my everyday life, and have interviews after playing PlayStation or washing the dishes,” he said.

Mimicking sportsmen through accent, facial expressions and dress style, Sonkosi pretends to be on camera while his brother, Sitsaba, plays cameraman and interviewer.

The videos of about two minutes each often come after a number of takes as he has to keep a straight face while answering questions during the “interviews” in sports lingo, Sonkosi said.

“The way I respond is what sports interviews sound like to me.

“A lot of them do sound clichéd, so it’s just taking the exact same thing that captains say and changing it up and talking about washing the dishes,” he said.

Sonkosi dedicates time to deciding what to wear and scripting questions for his brother to ask.

“A lot of thought goes into wardrobe because that plays a big part in making the videos look authentic, especially the videos where I’m doing the cricket tosses because cricket captains wear a blazer and cap when they do the toss.

“I spend more time deciding what I’m going to wear than what I’m going to say,” he said.

Though he has been sharing his videos for months, the last two weeks have seen him receive more than 8,000 reactions from Twitter users who find his content entertaining.

Among those are SA comedian Trevor Gumbi, sports broadcaster Motshidisi Mohono and cricketer Dane Piedt.

“The response has been amazing. I mean, getting a thumbs-up from someone like Trevor Gumbi is surreal.

“My Twitter has definitely changed from a couple of weeks ago,” he said.

The Woodridge intern teacher recently took over as head coach of the school’s first rugby team after being assistant coach for about four years.

A former Kings player, Sonkosi said sport had been a part of his life for as long as he could remember.

“My dad was big on sport and on us being sporty. Sport has always played a big part in my life and opened a lot of opportunities for me.

“I was lucky enough to play for the Kings for about four years after school, went through the academy and played a couple of years in the senior side, which helped me later become a coach at Woodridge,” he said.

Sonkosi said the videos were partly an acknowledgment of his second dream — to become a comedian.

“My brother judges my videos before I upload them because he doesn’t find me funny, so if I get a laugh or smile out of him, then I know the video is good.”