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Dai Henwood honoured - Lilith7 - 02-06-2025
Dai Henwood & others have been honoured in the King's birthday honours list.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562810/king-s-birthday-honours-dai-henwood-tim-southee-and-jude-dobson-among-those-recognised
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - heisenberg - 02-06-2025
pity they couldnÔÇÖt find a funny NZ comedian
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - king1 - 02-06-2025
there has been plenty of decent comedians from NZ over the years...
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Oh_hunnihunni - 02-06-2025
I think it takes a certain level of courage to deal with a terminal diagnosis and treatment as a tv special. Before that I pretty much ignored him. But that special was a good watch. Authentic.
There's that word again.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Lilith7 - 02-06-2025
(02-06-2025, 02:44 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I think it takes a certain level of courage to deal with a terminal diagnosis and treatment as a tv special. Before that I pretty much ignored him. But that special was a good watch. Authentic.
There's that word again.
And he's managed to  do some good with it, by making it public & encouraging others to get checked.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Oh_hunnihunni - 02-06-2025
Education is a benefit of our media age. For better and worse... Just as my Victorian grandfather predicted in his diary, opining on the advent of television...
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - heisenberg - 03-06-2025
(02-06-2025, 01:49 PM)king1 Wrote: there has been plenty of decent comedians from NZ over the years...
Apart from Billy T i canÔÇÖt think of any
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - harm_less - 03-06-2025
(03-06-2025, 05:58 AM)heisenberg Wrote:It would seem you live in a very much darker world than most of us.(02-06-2025, 01:49 PM)king1 Wrote: there has been plenty of decent comedians from NZ over the years...
Apart from Billy T i canÔÇÖt think of any
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - king1 - 03-06-2025
Mcphail and Gadsby for one, Paul Ego, Rhys Darby, Te Radar, Oscar Knightley, Tape Face. Pamela Stephenson was good in her day...
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - king1 - 03-06-2025
Taika Waititi probaby rates a mention as well, some of his movies are hilarious
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Oh_hunnihunni - 03-06-2025
He is right though, Billy T was something special. His name is the first when I think of comedians...
I think it was his lack of ego.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - harm_less - 03-06-2025
(03-06-2025, 08:35 AM)king1 Wrote: Mcphail and Gadsby for one, Paul Ego,  Rhys Darby, Te Radar, Oscar Knightley, Tape Face.  Pamela Stephenson was good in her day...Not to forget John Clarke. One of our funniest and most intelligent comedians, lost to Aussie but still very much enjoyed here.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Oh_hunnihunni - 03-06-2025
Oh yes, the inimitiable Fred Dagg. Loved him.
And not just because my maternal grandmother was a Dagg.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Olive - 03-06-2025
John Clarke's lasting contribution was Clarke & Dawe, the series of political satires which were so prescient that they come to mind every time I  hear a press conference by the present PM or many of his Ministers.   Todd McLay's presentation and delivery are a dead ringer for Clarke as PM.   The most famous sketch is "The Front Fell Off" but all of them were hilarious.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Lilith7 - 03-06-2025
Yes John Clarke was brilliant. We have no lack of comedians here & they sometimes turn up on that Aussie programme, Thank God You're Here which has just finished. I've seen Urzila Carlson, Guy Montgomery & Mel Bracewell on that so far.
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - king1 - 03-06-2025
(03-06-2025, 01:32 PM)Olive Wrote: John Clarke's lasting contribution was Clarke & Dawe, the series of political satires which were so prescient that they come to mind every time I  hear a press conference by the present PM or many of his Ministers.   Todd McLay's presentation and delivery are a dead ringer for Clarke as PM.   The most famous sketch is "The Front Fell Off" but all of them were hilarious.
Never seen that, thanks for posting...
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Lilith7 - 03-06-2025
(03-06-2025, 02:08 PM)king1 Wrote:(03-06-2025, 01:32 PM)Olive Wrote: John Clarke's lasting contribution was Clarke & Dawe, the series of political satires which were so prescient that they come to mind every time I  hear a press conference by the present PM or many of his Ministers.   Todd McLay's presentation and delivery are a dead ringer for Clarke as PM.   The most famous sketch is "The Front Fell Off" but all of them were hilarious.
Never seen that, thanks for posting...
Love that one. And this one,the whale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPq3IO6tus
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - heisenberg - 03-06-2025
(03-06-2025, 08:35 AM)king1 Wrote: Mcphail and Gadsby for one, Paul Ego,  Rhys Darby, Te Radar, Oscar Knightley, Tape Face.  Pamela Stephenson was good in her day...
paul ego rhys darby te radar are about as funny as a burning orphanage
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - king1 - 03-06-2025
(03-06-2025, 04:11 PM)heisenberg Wrote:(03-06-2025, 08:35 AM)king1 Wrote: Mcphail and Gadsby for one, Paul Ego,  Rhys Darby, Te Radar, Oscar Knightley, Tape Face.  Pamela Stephenson was good in her day...
paul ego rhys darby te radar are about as funny as a burning orphanage
lol, each to their own...
RE: Dai Henwood honoured - Oh_hunnihunni - 03-06-2025
Oscar is pretty funny. Same lack of ego. We New Zealanders do enjoy a bit of self deprecating humour.