Ray O'Leary manages to combine philosophy, politics and big ideas in his comedy act.
He's been performing in Wellington for 10 months and is bringing it closer to home for the first time on July 16. He'll be on stage, with four others, at the Globe Theatre in Palmerston North.
"It will be really good to have my mum and dad there, and maybe some of my sisters and high school friends," he said.
Mr O'Leary went to Cullinane College. Leaving Whanganui at 18, he studied philosophy at Victoria University.
"I was mainly interested in philosophy but I took some other papers to tell my mum I wasn't just doing that degree."