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Why should we see your show?
I won Best Comedy at the Dunedin Fringe last year against stiff international competition. This year's show is funnier and funnier. And it's a late show! So late in fact I haven't even finished writing it.
Tell us a joke in
25 words or less.
Bit like saying to a builder, "Here's two pieces of wood and a nail, make me a house". Probably wouldn't be a very good house.
Who is the funniest person you know and why?
My friend Andre. He's always on, which can be kind of draining. I don't know how he does it. I bet when everyone leaves the room he just falls in a heap and whispers "Thank God!"
Borat - yay or nay? Why?
Borat is nuts. Brilliant concept and execution (that apparently will read differently in Khazakstan). Because it's so largely improvised, Sacha Baron Cohen really only gets one shot at it with each individual or group he interviews. He's so good we'll all be sick of him in a year, mainly because of people who keep going "Niiiiiiiiiiiiizzzze!!" and wearing obscene stretchy speedos to cricket matches.
What's the worst line you've ever delivered?
"I don't know anything about England" to a Caribbean cruiseboat full of only English people who just want to think they're still in England listening to Les Dawson's mother-in-law jokes.
What were you like as a child?
Loyal, honest to a fault, obedient, shy, cute, quiet, deaf, self deprecating, good at English, maths, woodwork and art. Pretty nearly the opposite of what you want to be a great comedian.
If you weren't a comedian you'd be?
A nobody. Just the drunk guy in the Hammer Hardware ads.
* New Zealand comedian Mark Scott performs Super Joker at the Classic, 321 Queen St, 9.45pm, Wednesday May 9 to Saturday May 12.
