Phil Nicol

I think it might've been off the back of that award.

Well, in this case, I was just very lucky because I, after being invited the first time, I genuinely meant that I've been going to comedy festivals all over the world, that the New Zealand Comedy Festival was indeed the best comedy festival I had been to at the time.

Oh, wow.

Awesome.

Because it was small.

And all the comedians you met here working, like, and Jase, you know, all the comedians here working for the love of the art, not just for the... Not for the money.

Not for the money.

No, for the free wine.

But that was something that really intrigued me as a performer, and so I kept trying to get Scott to bring me back, and he sort of rang me out of nowhere and said, I think it's time you come back to the festival.

So I accepted immediately.

Yeah, well, I mean, I've just moved into a house in London.

I bought a house with my partner who has two children, two 11- and 10-year-old boys.

And so to get away from them is fantastic.

How good is that?

Yeah, what a great goal.

Sorry to have them in the first place.

It's so good.

I woke up today just whenever I wanted to.

No, well, there's not much nudity.

Not much.