Celia Pacquola

Um, and now I've brought it to Melbourne and, and it's still running in Auckland at the same time, and it's really fun.

We've had Celia Pacquola on the show.

We've had Anne Edmonds on the show, and amazing up-and-coming, um, Melbourne comics as well.

And your lineup has some TGIF favorites, including-

This was, I mean, there are so many incredible female comedians, uh, operating in the city at the moment, but back then as well, you know.

Celia Pacquola was gigging, Hannah Gadsby was gigging, uh, Felicity Ward was still in a- in, in Melbourne.

It was just like, Claire Hooper, boom, boom, just so many names.

It's like, how do I even begin to stand out? And back then, this may sound strange, but n- nobody was really, women weren't really talking about sport as much, certainly not with a comedic lens.

I reckon if I could, if I could, like, just give myself...

I know 'cause Hard Quiz is so specific, so I think, was it Celia Pacquola that went on Hard Quiz and she had Stephen King as her very specific horror?

Yeah.

So it would have to be, like, maybe it's horror films, but even that's so broad.

There is no sense of, oh, I have to tell this story about...

Celia Pacquola this year i- in essence told a story about her boyfriend getting her a kayak for her birthday.

That's, in essence, what the story was, right?

That was the show.

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Ray O'Leary, Celia Pacquola, David Quirk, Amy Ruffell-

Unbelievable

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