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- Dave Smith - Funny As Interview
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- NZ On Screen
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In 1969 Dave Smith acted in New Zealand's first televised comedy sketch show, In View of the Circumstances. In this lively Funny As interview, Smith talks about New Zealand in the 60s, starting out in comedy, and more, including: Moving from "crazy" England to conservative New Zealand in the 1960s, at age 18: "No restaurants, the bloody shop's shut on the weekend, the pubs shut at six o’clock, and everybody's supposed to be delightedly happy" Working with playwright Roger Hall and John Clark...
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- Video
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- https://www.nzonscreen.com/interviews/funny-as-dave-smith-2019
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- victoria university / helene wong / roger hall / john clarke / fred dagg / wellington / downstage theatre / satire / revue / one in five / in view of the circumstances / brian edwards / edwards on saturday / jack marshall / keith holyoake / legal action / 1960s / stephen whitehouse / political satire / knickers / cathy downes / peter cook / politicians / tony rimmer / robert muldoon / a week of it / avalon / political comedy / live comedy / comedy review / new zealand culture / sixties / 60s / television comedy / new zealand comedy / tommy handley / it's that man again / english comedy / british comedy / itma / rsa / patrica bartlett / downstage / immigration / rugby / sports / joe musaphia / grant tilly / john marshall / catherine downes / muldoon
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