The Other Day with Hoani Hotene

Another day with The Other Day! This week we chat to 2023 Billy T Nominee - Maria Williams whose joined by a new friend of the show Lesa MacLeod-Whiting! We chat fruit* and vegetables, what it means to be a friend of the podcast. The worst characters we've played on stage and a bunch of other stuff too. What a banger of an episode I think. Heaps of fun, lots of laughing. Hope you enjoy it too...

That's right, we got the most featured extra in Wellington Paranormal history, Jerome Chandrahasen! As well as welcoming back to the show famed anti-bowling champ Leki Lyons. Not only that we bring in an old flatmate Eli Payne for the episode to have it's very own theme song! Not gonna lie, this chat gets quite Wellington Comedy focused. A couple times there's references to people in t...

We doing it again it's The Other Day and this time we got two cool guys in David Correos and Keegan Thomas. This episode we spend a pretty decent amount of time talking about The Chase vs Tipping Point, are Adam Sandler movies still funny, creativity creatures, and even ending with a bit of legitimately nice advice for comedians. This episode cuts off at the end because I said good-bye too lat...

Whoa whoa wee wah! We got a Really Good, Normal Podcast on our hands this week. I'm joined this week by Booth the Clown and Danny Sewell. The three of us have a little reminisce session about our show the 'Really Good Normal Show' in the NZ Comedy Fest earlier this year. But then hit some of the hardest hypotheticals to come into the studio, ace some ethical test, and have a little sho...

They are wild, they are fun, there are two of them and they are in the studio. It is none other than Comedy Duo 'Ginge and Minge'. Individually they're known as Nina Hogg & Megan Connolly but they've been together for the last 3 years performing throughout New Zealand in a number of shows such as Jez and Jace in the most recent NZ Comedy Festival. Today they come into talk abou...

Hoani is joined this week by two of Wellington's favourite comics Zach Mandeville & Leki Lyons. We talk a little about Raw Quest before moving onto how Zach and Leki got started, life before the jokes, the bravery of hecklers in the crowd, and much more. This show was a lot of fun, and anyone whose seen these two on stage will enjoy this chat. Zach Mandeville started out as a comic in the...

This week we're joined by two of Wellingtons best stand-up comedians and improvisers Lesa Macleod-Whiting (On-Brand, NZ International Comedy Fest) and Gabby Anderson (2023 Billy T Nominee). We talk about their recent involvement in FIFA Women's World Cup, living it up in Spain, our most recent taste in music and Hoani's travel stories get well roasted. To see them live follow them on F...

Nau Mai and welcome to the very first episode of The Other Day with Hoani. Where each week we'll be talking to comedians/entertainers/performers of all kinds. This week we talk to one of the best crowd work comedians in the game Itay Dom. Itay is based in Auckland and started out in comedy over 12 years ago. We discuss how comedy has changed over that time, his short-lived run on NZ's The...