David Fane: a comedic delight...

Interview – 2011

David Fane failed comedy at drama school, which annoys him to this day. Since leaving Toi Whakaari, Fane has delighted audiences with his comic performances in The Semisis, bro’Town, Sione's Wedding, and Outrageous Fortune. Fane has also showed he can do drama, with shows The Market and The Strip, and horrror movie The Tattooist.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Fane talks about:

Failing comedy at drama school Toi Whakaari
Managing to get the only Samoan job on sketch show Skitz
Having Hori Ahipene as a wife on The Semisis
Wishing his Tongan Ninja character had a cooler name
The upsides of playing the barman on TV series The Strip
The birth of bro’Town, and occasionally dealing with serious issues like drugs and suicide alongside the poo jokes
Getting recognised on Cook Island atolls thanks to Sione's Wedding
The joys of playing Falani in Outrageous Fortune
Narrowly surviving the fight scene on Eagle vs Shark
Avoiding certain places thanks to comedy show Radiradirah
Hazy memories of working on movie Love Birds

This video was first uploaded on 1 February 2011, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – James Coleman

We wrote this episode and it was all about P, and then they said 'oh we can't actually say P, about you know, the drug.' Well, why can't we? It's decimating our society. What are you trying to hide? So in the end we came up with a clever thing: we said we’ll make a drug called 'upside down b'.

– David Fane on finding clever ways to touch on the dangers of P, in hit animated show bro’Town

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