Courtney Dawson

It is different for me.

No more terminology.

Four minutes of jokes, but that it's a great time.

And it's always a big party.

And you're like... Yeah, that is brutal.

I've been in the audience of the gala and also the green room.

A couple of years, I've just had a few wines in town and then be like, hey, let me into the green room.

Let me drink some of your wines.

So yes, yeah, that is brutal.

But I'm very excited.

Did I say you took a year off comedy?

Yes, I did.

I took a year off last year to do my level three and four te reo classes at Te Wananga o Aotearoa.

When you take a long break from comedy, it is sort of like you get on stage and it's like I've never written a joke.

I've never said a funny thing in my life.

Like it does feel like you haven't done it for a long time.

So even if it's just like for a week, sometimes I feel like that.

But the experience I've had this time coming back to it is that I care way less.

Like I'm way less hard on myself if things don't go well.

I find it like easier to write because like,