Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement tell Lydia Jenkin how their love of vampires and 20-year friendship inspired a movie about a bunch of bloodsucking mates flatting together in Wellington.

Where have we seen you before? I was a gynaecologist on Shortland St, a street comedienne in Power Rangers and a gossip on Good Morning.

We have been performing together for 17 years plus three times at the New Zealand Comedy Gala.

Seven Englishmen, an Essex girl and a Northern Irishman walk into a casino. Actually, the joke among the Best of British 5 Star Comedy Preview on Thursday night was the speed of SkyCity lifts, but that's not quite as catchy.

Guy Williams will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Rhys Mathewson will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Chris Martin from the UK will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Normally I would do everything in my power to ignore it but being on 7 Days means I have "to be aware of things other people care about".

Lisa Chappell's self-penned, one-woman show is a macabre comedy that takes us a million miles away from the wholesome, girl-next-door persona of McLeod's Daughter.

We round up the year's best and worst April Fools' hoaxes.

When US comedian Laurie Kilmartin found out that her 83-year-old father was dying from lung cancer she decided to "surround him with love and sarcasm".

How on earth did Jeremy Elwood end up being a comedian? There is no use asking him, he doesn't really seem to know.