Comedians at the TV2 International Laugh! Festival tell us what makes them ticklish.
Introducing ... Cal Wilson
Name of show: Hell Kitty
Is being a comedian the job you've always wanted or an escape from a proper one?
Discuss with examples of previous employment: This year it's five jobs - I'm playing four different characters and doing stand-up. Different from being a checkout chick for three years, when I wasn't allowed to be anybody.
Your major point of difference from all the other acts at this year's festival? There's the whole characters thing, and my show also contains a live lap dance. No, really.
Your urge to get up on stage and make people laugh - more a result of a) psychological imbalance or b) towering confidence? Oh, all right a), but not as much of an imbalance as wanting to get up on stage and make people vote you into Parliament.
Who, or what makes you laugh? Competitive ballroom dancing
And when you do, do you snigger, chuckle, giggle, guffaw? I hoot. As a consequence, I'm always surrounded by owls.
Is comedy still the new rock 'n' roll? Yep, comedy is still the new rock 'n' roll; which makes Ewen Gilmour the Keith Richards of comedy; Radar looks like one-fifth of the Village People, and this year I guess I'm the Supremes.
Simpsons or South Park? South Park. I'm from Canterbury - I'm used to boys with no necks.
Shortland St or Coro St? A combo - I reckon a sizzling love triangle between Fergus, Minnie and Percy Sugden. And Bet Lynch taking over the R Bar.
Review your show in a sentence of 25 words or less: Wilson is a cast of thousands in an hour of twisted comedy, music and a lap dancer called Krystelle.
Now give it a censorship warning: There really is a lap dance. Really.
Complete this sentence: Please come to my show because I really need the money to: pay the lap dancer.
* Cal Wilson: Hell Kitty opens at the Laugh Lounge (Auckland Town Hall) tonight, 8.30, and runs until Saturday.
Laugh! Lines: Cast among characters
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