This interview was done via e-mail and received back on the 20th of November 2000.
What was it like to do a show with Greg Fleet at the 2000 Melbourne Comedy Festival?
I didn't actually do it with Greg Fleet. He's a very busy man and basically didn't end up having the time to do the show. Luckily he has a number of doubles who showed up each night and did their best. They weren't up to Fleety's normally high standard but they gave it a good Aussie go and that's all you can ask.
You've been in a couple of movies, what did you prefer being in, Siam Sunset or the Craic?
Siam Sunset because I had more to do and therefore more chance of getting at least one bit of it right.
You had a fairly large rold in Siam Sunset, how did it make you feel to get such an important role?
Shocked. I didn't really believe it. I only started believing I'd really got it when I walked onto set and security didn't kick me off.
Describe your best ever performance.
I was four and asked to play the Little Drummer Boy in the school nativity play. What a drummer was doing near such a young child I'll never know. Anyway, I didn't have a lot to do, just one drum solo. Just as I had launched into my big solo I saw my Mum and Dad. I stopped playing, dropped the drum and ran over to them to see if they were enjoying it.
What were you thinking when you demonstrated the love scene cut from Siam Sunset with Rove McManus?
Hey, how many times do you get to dry hump a cute young bloke on national television. Anyway, he started it.
What made you decide to get into comedy?
I was going to be a priest. Comedy's like the priesthood with rooting.
Who are your favourite performers at the moment?
Gerard McCullock (Winner of Best Newcomer at the 200 Melbourne International Comedy Festival), Toby Sullivan (Australia, perhaps the world's only designated economics stand-up) and Morecambe and Wise (Dead English blokes. I was banned from watching them when I was a kid because I used to actually wet myself.)
How would you describe yourself?
The one who will forgive the world's sins.
Excluding the bare essentials such as food, water & oxygen, what is the most important thing in your life?
Jesus and punk rock.
If you only had ten more minutes to live, what would you do?
Embark on a big project.
What is it like to be a New Zealander comedian based in Australia?
It's like being a scarecrow made of sweet potato in the field full of angry vegetarian ravens.
How did you feel when you found out Siam Sunset won an award?
Well given the fact that it was the Rail D'or and the award was a piece of golden railway track I was...well...bemused...but hey, it was France.
What are your opinions of the Internet?
I love it. Information. Anarchy. Bea Arthur in the nude.
Is there anything else you'd like to say?
No, I'm finished.
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