KEY POINTS:
Why should we see your show?
Because if you don't we will not get our resident's visas and will be kicked out of New Zealand, and that means New Zealand will be less funny.
Tell us a joke in 25 words or less.
What occupies the last six pages of the Lada automobile user's manual? The bus and train timetables.
Who is the funniest person you know and why?
Brendhan Lovegrove, for being the only recipient of the NZCG Best Male Comedian Award to say while giving his acceptance speech: "Of course I won [the award] it would be kind of weird if somebody else did" - I found it hilarious.
Borat - yay or nay? Why?
I prefer not to comment on members of my own family.
When were you last embarrassed?
Two weeks ago I asked a girl out, who I met in a bar - I was drunk and acted like an idiot, she turned me down. Three days later I was at my friend's birthday party and she was there, it turns out she was his new girlfriend - not a good start.
What's the worst line you've ever delivered?
I said "thank you sir" to an elderly person in the crowd - not realising that it was a woman.
What were you like as a child?
A little KGB agent.
If you weren't a comedian you'd be?
I'd be a Russian mobster or a vodka taster, one of the two. Or I'd be vodka-tasting Russian mobster - something like that.
* A Russian Guide To Culture with Paul the Soviet, Jim Brown and Tevita Manukia at the Drake, 2 Drake St, from tomorrow night until Saturday, 8.30pm.
