hafital | Give Pete A Chance

We take a break from our continuing coverage of the strange 70s rainbow colored crack that is Life On Mars to bounce and clap our hand with glee over the adorableness of Murray Hewitt, the world's worst (best!) band manager. Aka Rhys Darby impersonating a robot.

How does your stand-up act differ from your TV persona?

It's quite different. I do lots of voices and characters. And I also do mime with sound effects, so it's a few miles away from the subtle humour of Murray.

Surely mime doesn't have sound effects?

This is my new mime I've brought out. When you look at mime, quite a lot of the population were missing out. The blind, for example, didn't know what was going on. But with my mime, they're getting in on the action as well.

Is that how you met Jemaine and Brett from Flight Of The Conchords?

They were in Wellington and I was in Auckland, so it was a definite bus drive to get to each other. But we connected mostly when we arrived in Edinburgh for the Fringe Festival.

We were amongst the only two New Zealand acts on at the time and we helped each other out. I did their flyers, Brett did my lighting, and handed out biscuits at half time in my show.

Aww!