The Watercooler - Series One

This first series of The Watercooler features stories about sauna etiquette, nurse–patient relations, Trans-Tasman cricket rivalry, and urination. The web series is based mostly on yarns provided by the show’s Facebook audience,  supplemented by a couple of creator and star Mike Minogue’s own awkward stories. The allegedly true stories are reenacted by a cast that includes Jonathan Brugh, Cohen Holloway and Abby Damen (The Māori Sidesteps). Each story is introduced as a chat over the office watercooler, with the storyteller and their audience also playing the main characters. A guide to all six episodes is here. 

Yeah I've got a treat for ya. It's this little poem I've been writing; you like poems? Alright here we go. Verse one, line one: HADLEE'S A WANKER...

– 'Bastard Aussie' McGill (Mike Minogue), to kids trick or treating as Richard Hadlee and Lance Cairns

Key Cast & Crew

Mike Minogue

Creator, Director, Writer, Actor
(episodes 2, 4, 5 and 6)

Andy Campion

Director, Editor

Charlie Bleakley

Director

Olly Coleman

Director, Visual Effects

Brigitte Yorke

Producer, Executive Producer

Desray Armstrong

Producer