One of the great talents of the new generation of Australian comedy explains why, for the longest time, she didn’t think people found her funny
‘When you’re a sad little loser teenager and you get on stage and everyone has to watch, even if you bomb … it feels pretty good.’ Photograph: Isabella Moore
It’s a vulnerable moment that’s swiftly punctured by the conversation-ending roar of a Qantas jet over our heads. Oyama is, as that résumé suggests, one of Australia’s next generation of comedy talents, as in-demand as a writer as an actor and standup. “I don’t know what I should identify as in terms of labels,” the 31-year-old says of her increasingly multifaceted career. “I guess I’m comedy-fluid. I don’t care what I do, as long as it’s to do with being funny.”
“I think you have to be a little bit messed up to want to go on stage and make a bunch of people laugh,” she says. “I don’t think that’s a response that a well-adjusted person has to life.” We’ve taken a seat on one of the benches that overlook the park. As we chat, a dog stops to sniff Oyama’s oversized Darwin water bottle, which she has placed on the ground next to us.“Oh, well now I know that no dogs have wee’d on my drink bottle yet, which is wonderful,” Oyama quips.
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