Radiradirah
from The NZ Herald, by Jacqueline Smith
This time last year Mitchell and bro'Town co-creator Oscar Kightley bid the kids of Morningside "laterz", wiped their brows, and asked each other, "what next?"
Kightley was keen to get his sketch comedy group the Naked Samoans back on television. Mitchell was a bit hesitant. Sketch is just one of those genres that screams "risky".
"I was like 'hmm ... sketch show'. I don't know, there was something about the phrase, and we kept trying to think of a new word for sketch but couldn't really find one. But then you look at things like Little Britain and Monty Python and you don't really think of them as sketch shows," she says.
One meeting with TV3 later she was convinced to go ahead with the format, which quickly evolved from being a solely Naked Samoans show into a collage of what she calls sub-shows.
It was named Radiradirah because bro'Town's Mack (the gay character) was particularly fond of the phrase and, as Mitchell says, it's kind of silly and open to anything....
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Radiradirah features Auckland Actors Madeleine Sami, Shimpal Lelisi and Mario Gaoa alongside Oscar Knightly, Rhys Darby, Taika Waititi and John Clarke.