Dai Henwood: Taking comedy to new heights...

Interview – 2012

Beloved comedian Dai Henwood began his TV career on stand-up show Pulp Comedy and followed it with a number of presenting roles. His acting roles include Secret Agent Men, The Tribe and movie Kiwi Flyer. Henwood is arguably best-known for his many appearances on comedy show 7 Days.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Henwood talks about:

Making his first joke at the tender age of five
Cutting his comic teeth on TV show Pulp Comedy
Repeatedly getting smashed against a bar on the set of Xena: Warrior Princess
Playing a molester on The Tribe
Being laughed at while in the Australian outback on his C4 show Roll the Dai
Why 7 Days has to be checked by a lawyer
How the kids’ pictures are his favourite part of the show
Learning to cope with jokes about his height
Being the son of veteran actor Ray Henwood

This video was first uploaded on 3 July 2012, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

I can remember vividly when I was five-years-old wanting to be a comedian. I can't remember what the joke was or what I'd said, but I made someone laugh. And I remember the feeling was so amazing. I always was drawn to comedy after that.

– Dai Henwood on his beginnings in comedy, at the start of this interview

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