Te Radar – sustaining the laughter - ScreenTalk

Te Radar – sustaining the laughter

Posted on 30 November 2009

Credits: Interview, Camera & Editing – Andrew Whiteside

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Comedian Te Radar (aka Andrew Lumsden) has made his mark in stand-up comedy, documentaries, and the top-rating popular factual series Off the Radar. His other screen credits include Pulp Comedy, Homegrown, Intrepid Journeys, B & B, and Hidden in the Numbers – a three part documentary series about statistics.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Te Radar discusses:

The genesis of the name ‘Te Radar’
Why he thinks Pulp Comedy was one of the most important NZ comedy programmes
Why it took years for him to appear in an episode of Intrepid Journeys
His fight for life after being bitten by a scorpion in Mali
The chaos and fun of the talk show/sitcom B & B
How Hidden in the Numbers made statistics ‘fun’
His delight that Off the Radar was a hit with children
And the state of NZ TV comedy

This video is available on YouTube to embed via a Creative Commons licence.

Comments

by TeMiha on 7 December 2009 at 7:10am

He’s a talent; good homegrown unaffected humour. Only we can laugh so much at the horror of being stung by a scorpion, because we come from a land where you can take an afternoon summer nap in the middle of a paddock blissful in the knowledge that nothing nasty is going to try and eat or poison you!

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