Dai Henwood
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Dai Henwood has been a regular fixture on television screens across New Zealand with the topical comedy panel show ‘7Days’, ‘Have You Been Paying Attention’ and ‘Taskmaster’, as well as hosting ‘Dancing With The Stars’, ‘Family Feud’, and ‘LEGO Masters New Zealand’.
In addition to being across the nation’s TV screens, he’s one of the country’s most accomplished stand-ups, winning countless awards and having international success across the world.
In this episode we discuss Dai’s bowel cancer diagnosis, finding peace through comedy and the expectation that comes with being a TV comic.
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| 0:00.0 | You can see my award-winning climate comedy show spoilers at a festival near you, |
| 0:03.7 | provided you live near or are going to, McCuncliffe or Wells Comedy Festivals. |
| 0:07.6 | More dates added soon near you, conceivably, who knows what might happen. |
| 0:10.9 | And if you are at Mac, come and see ComCom Redacted live at 4 p.m. on the Saturday. |
| 0:15.1 | Go to Stuart Goldsmith today I'm speaking to |
| 0:27.2 | Die Henwood and Die is a rate I mean you'll you'll know him if you're a |
| 0:32.0 | kiwi you will know him and love him he's he's enormously famous in New Zealand |
| 0:36.6 | I don't know that his his fame extends to the UK so if you're listening here then I hope this is a really fun |
| 0:45.1 | introduction which is also I dare say an incredibly uplifting episode I love this |
| 0:52.1 | because as well as die being a regular |
| 0:55.2 | fixture on television screens across New Zealand in topical comedy panel show |
| 0:59.7 | Seven Days. Have you been paying attention? He's been on Taskmaster there as well as |
| 1:03.8 | hosting Dancing with the Stars, Family Feud, and Lego Masters New Zealand, which |
| 1:07.9 | isn't a thing that I knew existed. But as well as telling us all about those, he's also going to enlighten us as to his journey |
| 1:16.5 | through being diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer. |
| 1:20.8 | He is one of the country's most accomplished stand-ups. |
| 1:23.2 | He's won countless awards and scored international success as well. |
| 1:27.3 | And we are going to talk about Die's bowel cancer diagnosis and we'll also we'll also cover the expectation that comes of being a TV comic and his |
| 1:37.2 | his struggles at the Edinburgh Festival and all the sorts of things that a comedy life would |
| 1:42.4 | encounter and that crop up on this |
| 1:45.1 | this this podcast numerous times will get Dye's unique and wonderful outlook on all |
| 1:49.5 | of those things but I found Dye's attitude towards his cancer diagnosis and where he's at at the moment |
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