David McPhail: from satire to spandex...

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David McPhail: from satire to spandex...

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Alongside fellow comedy legend John Clarke, David McPhail was one of the first people to get New Zealanders laughing at their television screens, thanks to 1970s sketch show A Week of It. McPhail and his comical partner in crime Jon Gadsby moved on to McPhail and Gadsby, Issues and rural sitcom Letter to Blanchy. In 2005 McPhail was invited to play an appallingly politically incorrect teacher in Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby. David McPhail died in May 2021. In this ScreenTalk interview condu...

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