Jon Bridges & Paul Yates - Funny As Interview

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Jon Bridges & Paul Yates - Funny As Interview

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Jon Bridges and Paul Yates met at university in Palmerston North, before performing with comedy group Facial DBX (see this Funny As interview). In this conversation they talk about their first TV gig Away Laughing and more, including: Being picked by Gibson Group producer Dave Gibson to work on his new TV sketch show Away Laughing  How the failure of 1995 comedy series Melody Rules caused networks to avoid Kiwi TV comedy for many years — "The question became 'Why aren't we funny on TV? Why a...

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