Heather Duplessy-Allen

I don't know why I wasn't on it this year, but I do support the New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Australia's more important?

No.

Is that why you weren't at the New Zealand Comedy Festival?

No.

It's just because I toured, like, it had been under a year since laps, you know, and I was like, I can't, it can't be, like, eight months between shows.

Like, let's give it a bit of time.

So is this basically the future and the situation now?

If you're working in the entertainment industry in New Zealand, you need to be prepared to live between the two countries, right?

I think most comedians do it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I do think about it a little bit like a candle, you know, that doesn't burn wide enough.

And when it goes down, it sort of snuffs itself out because not enough oxygen is getting in.

Like you do have to grow the candle wider.

So that does include Australia because it's just, we just don't have the economy of scale.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah.

How do you find the – I'm always obsessed with what our audiences are like in New Zealand.

Do you see a difference between the two?