She won comedy’s top award, reinvented the romcom and now hosts Junior Taskmaster. So why does the New Zealand comic need Buddhist podcasts to get through the day?
ose Matafeo is bad at endings. So bad that, after stepping away from standup in 2018, the New Zealand-born comic is now back with a new show,, her 20s. “I was surprised with how bad I was at all types of ending,” she says. “The show is me coming to terms with that. Things end: it’s not the end of the world.”, appeared on Taskmaster, was appointed host of Junior Taskmaster and made three series of Starstruck with her co-writer Alice Snedden.
She returned to the “immediacy” of standup, where you can have a thought one morning and discuss it on stage that night, to explore these ideas. “That was very helpful. And fun. And you get a show out of it – that’s cool.”Today, we’re in London chatting over tea and the most antipodean item on the menu – a platter of lamingtons, which are light sponges coated in coconut. Having been in London for nearly a decade, she received indefinite leave to remain in the UK last year.
Starstruck asked big questions about the types of love that can enrich our lives. In the third series, Matafeo’s character Jessie is still navigating a relationship with her ex while friends are having children and getting married, and she realises others expect the same for her. The existential issues facing Jessie are “now coming true” for Matafeo, she says. “When marriage or having kids, those milestones of adulthood, are things you don’t want, it’s harder to be like, ‘I got this.
She is adamant that nothing she, or any comedian, says on stage should be taken as wisdom though. “This is just me at this moment. It’s a snapshot,” she says. “In the live show, there are more questions than answers. What is next? Really, I have no idea.”Last year, Matafeo “got a lot of shit” for saying she regrets making a romcom. But it came from “intense self-reflection about what romance is”, she says. “Every other type of love is as important, if not more important.
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