Heather Duplessy-Allen

I know.

And we are obsessed with it.

New Zealanders love to be like, and we're a tough audience, aren't we?

And we take a sort of weird sycophantic pride in it.

It's horrible.

And I'm like, get off.

I actually find Kiwi audiences to be totally the same as anywhere else.

I will say the sort of general consensus around comedians around the world is that New Zealand is one of the hardest places to do comedy.

I think because you walk out there and we go, so why do you think you're funny?

That's our immediate attitude for some reason.

Whereas I think like in Australia, they're like, oh, all right.

They kind of hear you out for a second.

Because I'd wondered about, is this a deep set ingrained part of our culture where we don't have fun until we have fun?

Like, we don't have a – we just – we have little compartmentalised fun bits, but our life is not full of fun.

Everybody is laughing at your shows consistently, yes?

Yeah, they're scoring with laughter.

But I do think – yeah, but I do think it is part of that maybe tall poppy thing, I don't know, where it's like we don't really –

want to see someone out there who sort of believes that they're funnier than us.

Or we want to understand why they think they can do that.

And that's our immediate kind of position as an audience.