Gado went back to the drawing board, plotting his next move. Then in November 2007, a TV journalist,
Marie Lora, came to interview him for a story about how editorial cartoonists viewed the upcoming
presidential elections in Kenya.
After the interview, Gado showed her the XYZ pilot. Straight away,
Marie thought that this show absolutely needed to be on the air - and she knew she could help. But the
next month, all hell broke loose in Kenya. We now call this period "the post-election violence", but
the term doesn't give justice to the madness of these terrible months. At that time, it became even
more obvious that Kenya needed a show such as XYZ. Humor appeared like the only possible way to dig
ourselves out of the dark hole we had fallen into.