Wellington comedian Rhian Wood-Hill was 21 when first met his father.
"I grew up in a very white middle-class family and didn't really have much to do with my dad's side of the family," he says. "I knew of him.
"I think one of the major things is my stepdad and mum are both sort of well-to-do high-school teachers and my biological father is ex-Mongrel Mob, he's been in jail half my life."
The dynamics around all of that, what went wrong and the discovery of his Samoan identity form the basis of How I Met My Father.
Wood-Hill is bringing his hour-long story-telling show to Lucky Bar + Kitchen in Whanganui this month as part of a national tour.