Michèle A’Court: from kids TV to prime time comedy...

Interview – 2015

Michèle A’Court's comedy skills have been seen on everything from Pulp Comedy to 7 Days, but she began her screen career as a presenter on kids show What Now?. The multi award-winning comedian and columnist has also been a reporter on youth news show The Video Dispatch and has acted and written for Shortland Street.

In this ScreenTalk, A’Court talks about:

Having a blast making up stories and skits for What Now?
Making news stories for kids and politicians on The Video Dispatch
The challenge of trying stand-up for the first time on A Bit After Ten
How Pulp Comedy changed the perception of comedy in New Zealand
Exploring her French heritage in documentary Here to Stay
How acting in Shortland Street proved very helpful in Rarotonga
Loving the exhausting challenge that is comedy show 7 Days
Playing a version of herself for mockumentary series A Night at the Classic
Being terrified while acting on TV drama Go Girls

This video was first uploaded on 14 September 2015, 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 – Andrew Whiteside

The challenge was to take the week's biggest news stories and make them completely accessable to a 12-year-old. And according to all the legends it was appointment viewing for Members of parliment. They would all nip downstairs . . . to watch Video Dispatch go live to air for half-an-hour, so that they could get a handle what was going on in the news as well.
– Michèle A’Court on making the news comprehensible for kids and politicians in The Video Dispatch

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