Years active 2007–present | Name Rose Matafeo | |
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Similar People Guy Williams, Jono Pryor, Ben Boyce, James Acaster, Dai Henwood | ||
Occupation Comedian, TV presenter | ||
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Rose Matafeo is a New Zealand comedian and TV presenter partly based in London. She is a writer and performer on the NZ late-night comedy sketch show Funny Girls.
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Life and career
Matafeo grew up in Auckland, New Zealand and attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School, where she was head girl. She has two brothers. Her father is Samoan and her mother Scottish-Croatian.
At the age of 15, Matafeo started doing stand-up comedy through the platform of the "Class Comedians" programme put on by the New Zealand Comedy Trust, and went on to win the "Nailed It on the Night" award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2007. She's been a regular at the festival since.
Since graduating from the "Class Comedians" programme, Matafeo went on to win best newcomer at the 2010 New Zealand International Comedy Festival. She became a host of the popular comedy festival show "Fanfiction Comedy" in 2012. She has had success with her solo stand-up comedy shows at the festival: Life Lessons I've Learnt from the 60s Based on Things I've Seen on Television (2011), Scout's Honour (2012) and The Rose Matafeo Variety Hour (2013).
Matafeo won the Billy T Award, which recognises the potential of up-and-coming New Zealand comedians, for The Rose Matafeo Variety Hour in 2013, having previously been nominated for her show Scout's Honour in 2012. Her 2014 show at the festival was titled Pizza Party. In 2015 she performed a duo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Guy Montgomery titled Rose Matafeo and Guy Montgomery Are Friends.
Matafeo was a TV presenter and host of U Live, which ran on the TVNZ U channel from 13 March 2011 until 31 August 2013, when the channel came to an end. Upon TVNZ U finishing, she took on a new role as a writer for Jono and Ben at Ten, a satirical news and comedy sketch show.
Matafeo has listed comedians and writers Taika Waititi and Tina Fey as well as actress Lena Dunham as her influences. She is a self-confessed Burt Bacharach fan, and lists him among the likes of Michael Jackson and the Bee Gees as being one of her favourite artists when she was younger. She even named her cat Burt Bachacat after the artist.
Matafeo currently hosts the podcast Boners of the Heart with Alice Snedden on the Little Empire Podcast Network.
Matafeo has previously dated English comedian James Acaster and comedian Guy Williams.