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Funny Roots

Season 1 2012

  • 2012-05-08T18:00:00Z on TV3 (DK)
  • 30m
  • 4h (8 episodes)
  • Denmark
  • Comedy
New Zealanders are funny people, but what makes us funny? Is comedy in our DNA or does it come from the people and places that surround us? Funny Roots asks just that, as the nation’s finest stand-up comedians travel to the country of their birth or ancestry to find out about their funny roots. Each episode features a different comedian finding out what makes people laugh in a different country by observing local culture and meeting with local comedians. Do people in a foreign land laugh at the same things as us, or is their humour completely different? The ultimate test then comes when the comedian performs stand up comedy in front of a foreign crowd! Does our comedy work abroad? Or will these stand ups fall down? Finally the comedian has an emotional discovery as they ask where their comedy comes from and who, where and what it is that has helped shape their sense of humour.

8 episodes

Series Premiere

2012-05-08T18:00:00Z

1x01 Steve Wrigley

Series Premiere

1x01 Steve Wrigley

  • 2012-05-08T18:00:00Z30m

Steve investigates his funny roots with a long-avoided visit to his mother’s side of the family in Amsterdam, Holland.

2012-05-15T18:00:00Z

1x02 Paul Ego

1x02 Paul Ego

  • 2012-05-15T18:00:00Z30m

Funny Roots returns to the place where he (Paul) was born and where his stand up comedy career began, England, to find out whether his heritage has played any part in his sense of humour.

2012-05-22T18:00:00Z

1x03 Ewen Gilmour

1x03 Ewen Gilmour

  • 2012-05-22T18:00:00Z30m

Ewen Gilmour retraces his great, great grandfather journey through Prague and Germany in search of his funny roots. Along the way he tries to make German people laugh on stage.

2012-05-29T18:00:00Z

1x04 Jarred Christmas

1x04 Jarred Christmas

  • 2012-05-29T18:00:00Z30m

Jarred Christmas travels to Scotland to see if his highland heritage plays any part in making him one of our most successful comedy exports.

2012-06-05T18:00:00Z

1x05 Cori Gonzalez-Macuer

1x05 Cori Gonzalez-Macuer

  • 2012-06-05T18:00:00Z30m

Cori returns to the place he was born, Santiago, Chile to reconnect with his family and find his funny roots in his native tongue. While there he finds out about the Chilean sense of humour by meeting stand-up comics working the streets before performing his own New Zealand stand-up set in Spanish for the first time. But will his comedy get lost in translation?

2012-06-12T18:00:00Z

1x06 Jeremy Elwood

1x06 Jeremy Elwood

  • 2012-06-12T18:00:00Z30m

Jeremy Elwood goes in search of his funny roots in the country where he was born, Canada. While there he attempts to get a grasp of Vancouver humour, before writing and performing an all new set.

2012-06-19T18:00:00Z

1x07 Ben Hurley

1x07 Ben Hurley

  • 2012-06-19T18:00:00Z30m

Ben Hurley sets off to find his funny roots in his ancestral homeland of Northern Ireland. While there, he learns how his stand up comedy style may have been shaped by the Irish Troubles.

2012-06-26T18:00:00Z

1x08 Irene Pink

1x08 Irene Pink

  • 2012-06-26T18:00:00Z30m

Irene Pink travels to her mother's homeland, Niue. During the course of her stay Irene discovers what life would have been like if she'd grown up in Niue, before performing what a stand-up comedy set.

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