Away Laughing - Series Two, Episode One

Away Laughing was an early sketch comedy show for both TV3 and Wellington production company Gibson Group. In this first episode from the second series, spies, skateboarders, Kiwi mateship, and All Black Buck Shelford are the butt of jokes. Along the way, Murray Keane plays both an Australian mocking New Zealand place names, and a true blue Kiwi; a trio of firefighters make idiots of themselves in a classroom; kids argue about the best kind of lunch; and onetime Telecom promo man Gordon McLauchlan (David Downs) interviews two gorillas about Telecom's privatisation.

So kids — that's how you make an incendiary device.

– One of the Firemen (Jon Bridges) educates a class of high schoolers about firefighting

Key Cast & Crew

David Copeland

Director

Hori Ahipene

As: Bazza, Hori, various roles

Murray Keane

As: Blind Mate contestant, schoolboy, Australian, various roles

Dave Gibson

Producer

Glenn Wood

Writer

Brett Marquet

Writer