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So You're a Man (1995)
By: Sylwia Date: January 21, 2018, 5:47 pm
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[quote]Rich Cory-Wright: I took this pic of the boys before they
became famous outside of nz, for a promo shot of them appearing
at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, I think around 1995 or
1996.[/quote]
from Wikipedia,
[quote]So You’re a Man were a five-man comedy troupe, who
performed in the mid-90s in both New Zealand and Australia.
Members were Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi,
actor Carey Smith and theatre director David Lawrence. They met
as members of the Drama Club at Victoria University of
Wellington, (where Clement, Waititi and Lawrence were studying
theatre and film, and McKenzie classics and music) and first
appeared as a quintet in a segment of a show called ‘Bodyplay’,
conceived and directed by Duncan Sarkies.
‘So You’re A Man’ premiered at the Basement Theatre in Auckland
in May 1996, played a sell-out season at BATS Theatre in
Wellington in October/November 1996, and then a month at the
Last Laugh in Melbourne, Australia in March/April 1997, with
one-off performances and university Orientation gigs in between.
The show was a 1950s-style mockumentary guide to coping with
manhood, covering such topics as proper urinal ettiquete,
interactions with women, facial hair, personal grooming and how
to find the clitoris. The five actors performed in
flash-coloured ‘nudie-suits’ and all played the guitar.
This group was a precursor to both The Humourbeasts and Flight
of the Conchords. After the Melbourne comedy festival, where
they played on the same bill as Simon Pegg, Ed Byrne, Tommy
Tiernan and Peepolykus, the group broke up to pursue other
interests.[/quote]
HTML http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/arts/television/10itzk.html?pagewanted=print
[quote]New in Town, Talking Funny
By DAVE ITZKOFF
JUNE 10, 2007
[...]Beneath their relaxed demeanors, Mr. Clement and Mr.
McKenzie are both motivated, determined performers. In the
mid-1990s, while they were still students at Victoria University
of Wellington, they were already touring New Zealand and
Australia with a five-member comedy act called “So You’re a
Man.” At a time when their island nation was still largely
served by just three television channels, and homegrown
production was scarce, they found their comedic influences in
offbeat British and American imports like “Blackadder” and “It’s
Garry Shandling’s Show.” [...] [/quote]
HTML http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/kiwi-fruits/2008/05/10/1210131325673.html
[quote]Kiwi fruits
Alexa Moses
May 12, 2008
[...] it's been a lengthy collaboration for the pair who met in
the 1990s at Victoria University in Wellington. "We met when we
were doing this show in drama club," Clement says. "We ended up
together in a group of five guys and our topic was male body
image. We tried to do something weird and offensive and it
really didn't work. It ended up being a show called So You're A
Man, which we did in Melbourne, to little success."
"It almost got closed down," McKenzie says.
"We were young," Clement says. "We were doing sketches like
urinal etiquette, finding the clitoris."[/quote]
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Re: So You're a Man (1995)
By: Sylwia Date: January 21, 2018, 5:54 pm
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Just today this thing surfaced on Twitter!!
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[quote]PeterAotearoa @MoaVideos: Here's a program I found for a
play put on by the Victoria University drama club in 1995. You
can see Jemaine Clement on the cover, and also Bret McKenzie and
Taika Waititi in the cast. (Waititi was a Cohen back then, lol)
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I remember the play well. Everyone wore flesh coloured bikepants
with penises which velcro-ed on and off. They were making some
kind of statement about body image and cisnormativity[/quote]
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