Chris Martin from the UK will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Guy Williams will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

Rhys Mathewson will be perfroming during the 2014 New Zealand Comedy Festival.

One of the problems with writing about television is that I have to look at more of the stuff than might actually be good for me.

What sort of voice should we read your answers in?

It is that time of the year when mirth abounds, as the International Comedy Festival rolls into town and suddenly everybody's a comedian.

Comedians Guy Williams and Chris Martin join us for a live chat as they prepare to embark on a New Zealand tour together as part of the 2degrees Comedy Convoy.

I'm not too sure what my 5-year-old Mia made of Dr Brown at first, an odd-looking man wearing white tennis shorts, a suit jacket, shirt and tie, woolly hat and safety goggles. He was a fruity fright.

They aren't in fact billed together, but Britain's young gun Chris Martin and American veteran Tom Rhodes create a great comedy face-off in their respective festival gigs.

What sort of voice should we read your answers in?

What sort of voice should we read your answers in?

What sort of voice should we read your answers in?

Trevor Noah's one man show, The Racist, blends comedy with social comment.

Comedian Brendon Green explains his deceptively personal songs and deep seated wish to possess Emma Stone's voice.