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       So You're a Man (1995)
   DIR By: Sylwia
       Date: January 21, 2018, 5:47 pm
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       > 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.
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       from Wikipedia,
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       > 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.
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       > New in Town, Talking Funny
       > By DAVE ITZKOFF
       > JUNE 10, 2007
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       > [...]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.” [...]
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       > 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."
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       Re: So You're a Man (1995)
   DIR By: Sylwia
       Date: January 21, 2018, 5:54 pm
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       Just today this thing surfaced on Twitter!!
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       > 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)
       > -----
       > 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
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