PaulHoran
- Producer
- Writer
Paul Horan co-founded the NZ Comedy Festival and The Classic Comedy Bar, kickstarting a vital Auckland comedy scene — and his own successful trans-Tasman TV career. His credits include The Topp Twins, Super City, comedy history series Funny As and Australia's Rove Live. After helping develop prime time formats like The Project, his company Slightly Uncomfortable Productions has specialised in hybrid news comedy shows.
Screenography
Biography
Writer and producer Paul Horan is Wellington-born, but Palmerston North raised. His father ran a pharmacy in the city's central square, and Horan attributes some of his success in dealing with performers to his dad’s approach. "All the old ladies liked to talk to ‘nice Mr Horan’. He told me ‘I might be the only person they talk to all week’. Dad taught me that totally focussing on these people was very important. He would chat for a couple of minutes, then went back to work”.
Awards
2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Comedy/Comedy Entertainment Programme (with Jessica Hansell, Simon Ward, Carthew Neal, Taika Waititi and Morgan Waru): for Aroha Bridge
“I'm extraordinarily proud to come from the comedy tradition in this country, because more than any other art form — and we are an art form — we've made our own way. We've created our own structures: the comedy festival, the Classic [Comedy Club]. All of these things, we've put this together ourselves for ourselves. ”