May 13, 2026 • 9 mins
Comedian Karen O'Leary joins Nick in the studio to chat "Poneke House Party", a comedy music mashup show raising funds for the Mayoral Relief Flood Fund.
The NZ International Comedy Festival and NZ Music Month partner to bring you Pōneke House Party, a night of jokes, songs and surprise special guests at Wellington’s Opera House, Sunday 17 May, 6pm.
Karen joins the heavy hitting line up of stars including Tofiga Fepulea'i, Tami Neilson and host James Nokise.
Buy tickets here for a night full of comedy and music, while helping for a great cause.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from News Talk said, b.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A little bit of split ends for music, music money.
Who I thought you I thought you might have.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You'll know her from Wellington Paranormal She's where she has
somehow managed to keep a dead pan police work and
one of the funniest things on television.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You would have seen her on Taskmast The New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
She pops up with Paddy Gower has this She's now
She sounds like part of one of the loosest, funniest,
most Wellington nights of the year, the Poniquy House Party
at the Wellington Opera House this weekend comedy, music, chaos.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's that describes Karen O'Leary, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, a surprise guest.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, she'll want it to be all about her, but
that's okay, and for all for a bloody good cause
helping raise money for the Meuror flood.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Really fun. Karen joins me. Good morning Filder and good morning,
good to see you again.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
It's lovely to be seen by you now.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
You've just the way you did a bit of relieving
at Wellington High which I gave a plug to the
other day on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Well, I'm glad you did because it's the big school
in Wellington or maybe itself. Yeah, I do relieving in
between my amazing television whatever it does, I do. I thought,
I hate not having anything to do, so I went
back to my old high school. I went in the
nineties and said it was my early childod degree can
be a reliever And they kind of looked at me
and said you want to be a reliever and I
said yeah, and they said, but we just put you
on the Wall of fame. I said, oh, I don't care.
I'll be worn to be a reliever. And so now
(01:31):
heaps of the kids I used to teach at my
early child center are now there as awkward teenagers and
I walk into class and they're like, Karen, what are
you doing here? I'm like, hah, I'm your teacher again,
and it's really great.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I was talking to a relief teacher at Razimee the
other day and he gets four hundred dollars in the
hand a day for relief teaching.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's money, good money.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I look, you know, I never do it for the money, Nick,
I do the I do the TV stuff for the money.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Buck a day, I'd be a relief teacher. You have
different degree.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean maybe I need to go to that school.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, maybe I did to go bet Well.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Tell me what about? Tell me about the show. I
mean it's at the Opera House. I know that it's
going to have music, comedy, it's going to Are you
hosting it?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
No, I'm not hosting it. Go amazing James Norki is
going to host it. But like, I think you pretty
much nailed what I was, all the things that I
was going to say in your opening intro. But it's
just a really amazing celebration of two of the things
that bring people joy, which is music and humor. And
I think you know, it seems crazy that you know,
this is the thirdieth anniversary of the Comedy Fest and Wellington.
It seems crazy that we haven't joined that with New
(02:26):
Zealand Music months before. So this is the time to
do it, and it's going to be an absolute banger
of an evening.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So tell me how it works financially. Obviously, the council
give you the venue for nothing, you get all production
for nothing, Everything gets looked after for nothing, and people,
is it a set fee to come on.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You buy yourself a ticket. You can get tickets online
and so you buy us yourself a ticket. And I
don't know about all of that other stuff. I presume
there's people that organize that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Nik.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I just come and talk to you on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's my main the famous one.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Then I'm just the famous fate and I'm not famous
at all, but I'm just a face and a voice.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, I'll mean, I want to just quickly go back
to this teaching thing because I mean I remember when
I was at school and the New Zealand cricketer would
turn up or something, or you know, you'd go everyone
would go gaga and stupid and wander around like kids do. Yeah,
I mean, having a famous person like you wandering around
the school grounds.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I mean that's pretty pretty out there, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well, I think the good thing about Wellington High School
is that everyone just is who they are, and you know,
there's no one's, no one's more special than anyone else,
so I think. And also a lot of the kids
know me anyway from they used to be two and
three and four, So I'm not that special, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You are, and it would be quite a weird. I
feind it quite weird.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wellington is a different city, right, We're just talking about
the individual individuality of Wellington high But in comedy circles,
we're a bit smarter than your normal city in New Zealand,
aren't we.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We've got higher standards in Wellington. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Oh, I think comedy across is of a very high
standard and I would hate to knock any of my
lovely comedians.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The people coming to the shows, yes.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Oh, the people coming to the Wellingtonians that came around
that they know, they know heaps about comedy. Yes, the
audience is a you know, the top notch for so yees,
I'm expecting people would definitely be laughing because they're also
smart and Wellington.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I mean, is the comedy scene alive and well in Wellington?
I mean could if I had a guest, say next Wednesday,
I had a guest coming from out of town and said,
take you to something that funny, take me to a
comedy show.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Would I be able to do that? Is it that open?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It is definitely open. Yeah, There's there's definitely things you
can go to, things popping up all over the place.
It's just a matter of knowing where to look right and.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
How would you find? So how would our listeners find
something they wanted to go out?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How to night?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's really different. See somebody like you performing and have fun?
What would they do?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
What would they do? Is they've gone this thing.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It's called the internet, right, so people get you get
on that and then you put in a search and
then it's amazing that you put the words in and
you put comedy tonight in Wellington and then all of
these answers pop up and an amazing thing. I don't
know how it works, don't understand it, but.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Done that exactly?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, absolutely, I'll do that for everything I need to do.
How do I get here? What do I need to
buy from the supermarket? Everything?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah? Do you use AI? No?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't like AI. I'm scared of it. We're not
scared of it. I just I think, No, it's making
us a dumber I don't like.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I unquestionably think it's making us some form of us dumber,
but some form of us brighter because I use it
for absolutely everything.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, well, I think if it was used only for good,
not evil, then fantastic. But we know that's not going
to happen, not with the way that people are these days.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah political, now make a short break, But I mean
I understand. But if I was buying a shirt, say,
for instance, now this is how reliant I'm on it.
If I'm buying a shirt this afternoon, AI and say
I like this type of shirt, where would I best
get the best price in the best shirt?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And it will come back with three options. That's pretty good.
That's pretty smarter, though, what about those?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But otherwise you might walk into town, you might bump
into lots of people, have some nice chats with some shopkeepers,
and then maybe that would be even better for you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but I could do that as well as.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Okay, you're going to answer, then you're still gonna go
do all the other shops look too smart for me.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
The show is called Piniky House Party. It's on the
Wellington Opera House.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What night is it not?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's on Sunday, Sunday Sunday, And we're going to find
out where the tickets are Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Go to take it Master. You get yourself some tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
She expected me to be able to remember all that.
And it's forty dollars from forty.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Dollars from forty dollars.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You can pay more if you want to. I'd say
why not, because it's going to a good.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Course, unbelievably good cause. Tell me who else is on
the show, Well.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
An unbelievably good cause. But talk about an unbelievably good lineup.
We have got some amazing talent from all over the country.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Can you just explain what they do as you go
through a little bit so that now punters can know
if they don't know who they are and what they.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
About for sure?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
For short, Tammy Nielson, now I know even you know
Tammy Nielson sing one of his songs for me.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now, Nick, let's give it a go.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You tell me a joke. Now, you tell me a
joke now, and I'll tell you your side.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
What do you call a lesbian on fire?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I thought you want to go there? I want to
keep my job.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Let's move on, Move on, moving on?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Do you call a lesbian on fire?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
LGBBQ? Okay, we've got to a finger. He's he's a
very very funny guy. He's also on Taskmaster, so he's
going to be there. He will be cracking people up
left Roden Center. We've got Michelle a court Justine Smith,
both amazingly funny women.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Who are we doing some comedy.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
We've got my good old school friend Sam Scott and
Luke brought her from the Phoenix Foundation playing some amazing music.
We've got funny and musical Wilson Dixon. He's going to
be coming down with his guitar.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
There's going to be.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Lila Junior, and we've also got another up and coming
band Dropper.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
They're going to be there.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
There's going to be saxophones, there's going to be tap dancing.
This is going to be basically anything you can imagine,
and probably more.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's Sam guy. Was that the guy that you went
to the other night? That what he say? His name
was Sam Scott?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Sam Scott from the Phoenix Foundation. You find enough Tom Scott.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I was thinking of Tom Scott. No, but I got it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I know the Phoenix Foundation is so I knew them.
Now you've become one of those people that everybody in
Willington loves and knows. You walk down the street. I mean,
how's life. How's life going for a comedian?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
My life is great. I love my life.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I do such a variety of things and I get
to meet so many lovely different, interesting people. So I
feel very very fortunate, and I think being a Willingtonian
is a massive part of that, you know. I think
people in Willington are generally speaking, pretty friendly, pretty open
and keen to have a good, open, honest conversation.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Do you feel that we're heading in the right direction?
Do you feel that we're getting over the We've had
a pretty tough time the whole in New Zealand, the
whole the world's had a pretty tough time. Do you feel,
you know, in your line of work as a comedian,
as an entertainer, as a teacher, that we're getting there.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Well, there's a lot of different hats that I'm wearing
all at the same time, and I think in some
that's a very big question as well. I've always I'm
very fortunate to have a very positive outlook and very optimistic,
some would say stupidly optimistic. So I always feel positive
about the future, but certainly there are things that we
need to change in order for the future to look bright, right,
and don't I don't have time to go into all
of those.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What's the one thing that Karen O'Leary would actually change
in Wellington if she could.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh what would I change in Wellington? The government?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
The government couldn't resist. Sorry, no, no, no, you know,
he runs entitled to their opinion. But I think, you know,
I think we need to look at you know what
i'd improve. I'd improve the fact that we look after
everyone in our in our city, in our community.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I think we do that pretty damn well, though, don't
we as a city doesn't think.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Wellington does it pretty well. But we need to do
it across the board.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, I mean you're a classic example of doing something
well for our city. I mean the party, the party
is called I'm going to call it the party. It's
it's going to be a party.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's going to be a massive party.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Okay, Puniky house party, well Inton Opera House this Sunday.
Karen O'Leary, thanks for coming. And I know you're going
to go back to the fourth fifth period, fourth period.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
A fourth period, go teach you to the future of tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, but you've got lunch break coming up, you'll be right.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
No, they don't have lunch to want twenty Do they
have lunch? I don't know. I don't understand they have
lunch one? You know, who need one?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
More class period of Thanks for changed in mind since day,
Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Hey, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Breaking here on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh I hope not.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You're not supposed to say that entertainers break a league
is make sure it's a good show.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
For more from Wellington Mornings with Nick Mills, listen live
to news talks It'd be Wellington from nine am weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Wellington Mornings podcast with Nick Mills
from News Talk said, b.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
A little bit of split ends for music, music money.
Who I thought you I thought you might have.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You'll know her from Wellington Paranormal She's where she has
somehow managed to keep a dead pan police work and
one of the funniest things on television.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You would have seen her on Taskmast The New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
She pops up with Paddy Gower has this She's now
She sounds like part of one of the loosest, funniest,
most Wellington nights of the year, the Poniquy House Party
at the Wellington Opera House this weekend comedy, music, chaos.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's that describes Karen O'Leary, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yes, a surprise guest.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Well, she'll want it to be all about her, but
that's okay, and for all for a bloody good cause
helping raise money for the Meuror flood.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Really fun. Karen joins me. Good morning Filder and good morning,
good to see you again.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
It's lovely to be seen by you now.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
You've just the way you did a bit of relieving
at Wellington High which I gave a plug to the
other day on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Well, I'm glad you did because it's the big school
in Wellington or maybe itself. Yeah, I do relieving in
between my amazing television whatever it does, I do. I thought,
I hate not having anything to do, so I went
back to my old high school. I went in the
nineties and said it was my early childod degree can
be a reliever And they kind of looked at me
and said you want to be a reliever and I
said yeah, and they said, but we just put you
on the Wall of fame. I said, oh, I don't care.
I'll be worn to be a reliever. And so now
(01:31):
heaps of the kids I used to teach at my
early child center are now there as awkward teenagers and
I walk into class and they're like, Karen, what are
you doing here? I'm like, hah, I'm your teacher again,
and it's really great.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
I was talking to a relief teacher at Razimee the
other day and he gets four hundred dollars in the
hand a day for relief teaching.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That's money, good money.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I look, you know, I never do it for the money, Nick,
I do the I do the TV stuff for the money.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Buck a day, I'd be a relief teacher. You have
different degree.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I mean maybe I need to go to that school.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, maybe I did to go bet Well.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Tell me what about? Tell me about the show. I
mean it's at the Opera House. I know that it's
going to have music, comedy, it's going to Are you
hosting it?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
No, I'm not hosting it. Go amazing James Norki is
going to host it. But like, I think you pretty
much nailed what I was, all the things that I
was going to say in your opening intro. But it's
just a really amazing celebration of two of the things
that bring people joy, which is music and humor. And
I think you know, it seems crazy that you know,
this is the thirdieth anniversary of the Comedy Fest and Wellington.
It seems crazy that we haven't joined that with New
(02:26):
Zealand Music months before. So this is the time to
do it, and it's going to be an absolute banger
of an evening.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So tell me how it works financially. Obviously, the council
give you the venue for nothing, you get all production
for nothing, Everything gets looked after for nothing, and people,
is it a set fee to come on.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
You buy yourself a ticket. You can get tickets online
and so you buy us yourself a ticket. And I
don't know about all of that other stuff. I presume
there's people that organize that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Nik.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
I just come and talk to you on the radio.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's my main the famous one.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Then I'm just the famous fate and I'm not famous
at all, but I'm just a face and a voice.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, I'll mean, I want to just quickly go back
to this teaching thing because I mean I remember when
I was at school and the New Zealand cricketer would
turn up or something, or you know, you'd go everyone
would go gaga and stupid and wander around like kids do. Yeah,
I mean, having a famous person like you wandering around
the school grounds.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I mean that's pretty pretty out there, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well, I think the good thing about Wellington High School
is that everyone just is who they are, and you know,
there's no one's, no one's more special than anyone else,
so I think. And also a lot of the kids
know me anyway from they used to be two and
three and four, So I'm not that special, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
You are, and it would be quite a weird. I
feind it quite weird.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Wellington is a different city, right, We're just talking about
the individual individuality of Wellington high But in comedy circles,
we're a bit smarter than your normal city in New Zealand,
aren't we.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We've got higher standards in Wellington. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Oh, I think comedy across is of a very high
standard and I would hate to knock any of my
lovely comedians.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The people coming to the shows, yes.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Oh, the people coming to the Wellingtonians that came around
that they know, they know heaps about comedy. Yes, the
audience is a you know, the top notch for so yees,
I'm expecting people would definitely be laughing because they're also
smart and Wellington.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I mean, is the comedy scene alive and well in Wellington?
I mean could if I had a guest, say next Wednesday,
I had a guest coming from out of town and said,
take you to something that funny, take me to a
comedy show.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Would I be able to do that? Is it that open?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It is definitely open. Yeah, There's there's definitely things you
can go to, things popping up all over the place.
It's just a matter of knowing where to look right and.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
How would you find? So how would our listeners find
something they wanted to go out?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How to night?
Speaker 3 (04:32):
That's really different. See somebody like you performing and have fun?
What would they do?
Speaker 4 (04:36):
What would they do? Is they've gone this thing.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
It's called the internet, right, so people get you get
on that and then you put in a search and
then it's amazing that you put the words in and
you put comedy tonight in Wellington and then all of
these answers pop up and an amazing thing. I don't
know how it works, don't understand it, but.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Done that exactly?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, absolutely, I'll do that for everything I need to do.
How do I get here? What do I need to
buy from the supermarket? Everything?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah? Do you use AI? No?
Speaker 4 (04:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
I don't like AI. I'm scared of it. We're not
scared of it. I just I think, No, it's making
us a dumber I don't like.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I unquestionably think it's making us some form of us dumber,
but some form of us brighter because I use it
for absolutely everything.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Yeah, well, I think if it was used only for good,
not evil, then fantastic. But we know that's not going
to happen, not with the way that people are these days.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah political, now make a short break, But I mean
I understand. But if I was buying a shirt, say,
for instance, now this is how reliant I'm on it.
If I'm buying a shirt this afternoon, AI and say
I like this type of shirt, where would I best
get the best price in the best shirt?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And it will come back with three options. That's pretty good.
That's pretty smarter, though, what about those?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But otherwise you might walk into town, you might bump
into lots of people, have some nice chats with some shopkeepers,
and then maybe that would be even better for you.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Yeah, but I could do that as well as.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Okay, you're going to answer, then you're still gonna go
do all the other shops look too smart for me.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
The show is called Piniky House Party. It's on the
Wellington Opera House.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
What night is it not?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
It's on Sunday, Sunday Sunday, And we're going to find
out where the tickets are Ticketmaster, Ticketmaster.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Go to take it Master. You get yourself some tickets.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
She expected me to be able to remember all that.
And it's forty dollars from forty.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Dollars from forty dollars.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You can pay more if you want to. I'd say
why not, because it's going to a good.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Course, unbelievably good cause. Tell me who else is on
the show, Well.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
An unbelievably good cause. But talk about an unbelievably good lineup.
We have got some amazing talent from all over the country.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Can you just explain what they do as you go
through a little bit so that now punters can know
if they don't know who they are and what they.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
About for sure?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
For short, Tammy Nielson, now I know even you know
Tammy Nielson sing one of his songs for me.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Now, Nick, let's give it a go.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You tell me a joke. Now, you tell me a
joke now, and I'll tell you your side.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
What do you call a lesbian on fire?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I thought you want to go there? I want to
keep my job.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Let's move on, Move on, moving on?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Do you call a lesbian on fire?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
LGBBQ? Okay, we've got to a finger. He's he's a
very very funny guy. He's also on Taskmaster, so he's
going to be there. He will be cracking people up
left Roden Center. We've got Michelle a court Justine Smith,
both amazingly funny women.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Who are we doing some comedy.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
We've got my good old school friend Sam Scott and
Luke brought her from the Phoenix Foundation playing some amazing music.
We've got funny and musical Wilson Dixon. He's going to
be coming down with his guitar.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
There's going to be.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Lila Junior, and we've also got another up and coming
band Dropper.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
They're going to be there.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
There's going to be saxophones, there's going to be tap dancing.
This is going to be basically anything you can imagine,
and probably more.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's Sam guy. Was that the guy that you went
to the other night? That what he say? His name
was Sam Scott?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Sam Scott from the Phoenix Foundation. You find enough Tom Scott.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I was thinking of Tom Scott. No, but I got it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
I know the Phoenix Foundation is so I knew them.
Now you've become one of those people that everybody in
Willington loves and knows. You walk down the street. I mean,
how's life. How's life going for a comedian?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
My life is great. I love my life.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
I do such a variety of things and I get
to meet so many lovely different, interesting people. So I
feel very very fortunate, and I think being a Willingtonian
is a massive part of that, you know. I think
people in Willington are generally speaking, pretty friendly, pretty open
and keen to have a good, open, honest conversation.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Do you feel that we're heading in the right direction?
Do you feel that we're getting over the We've had
a pretty tough time the whole in New Zealand, the
whole the world's had a pretty tough time. Do you feel,
you know, in your line of work as a comedian,
as an entertainer, as a teacher, that we're getting there.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Well, there's a lot of different hats that I'm wearing
all at the same time, and I think in some
that's a very big question as well. I've always I'm
very fortunate to have a very positive outlook and very optimistic,
some would say stupidly optimistic. So I always feel positive
about the future, but certainly there are things that we
need to change in order for the future to look bright, right,
and don't I don't have time to go into all
of those.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
What's the one thing that Karen O'Leary would actually change
in Wellington if she could.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Oh what would I change in Wellington? The government?
Speaker 5 (08:49):
The government couldn't resist. Sorry, no, no, no, you know,
he runs entitled to their opinion. But I think, you know,
I think we need to look at you know what
i'd improve. I'd improve the fact that we look after
everyone in our in our city, in our community.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I think we do that pretty damn well, though, don't
we as a city doesn't think.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
Wellington does it pretty well. But we need to do
it across the board.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah, I mean you're a classic example of doing something
well for our city. I mean the party, the party
is called I'm going to call it the party. It's
it's going to be a party.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
It's going to be a massive party.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Okay, Puniky house party, well Inton Opera House this Sunday.
Karen O'Leary, thanks for coming. And I know you're going
to go back to the fourth fifth period, fourth period.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
A fourth period, go teach you to the future of tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, but you've got lunch break coming up, you'll be right.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
No, they don't have lunch to want twenty Do they
have lunch? I don't know. I don't understand they have
lunch one? You know, who need one?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
More class period of Thanks for changed in mind since day,
Thanks for joining me.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Hey, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Breaking here on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Oh I hope not.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
You're not supposed to say that entertainers break a league
is make sure it's a good show.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
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