Jon Gadsby

Writer and comedian Jon Gadsby, QSM, likely spent more time being funny on New Zealand television screens than almost anyone — aside perhaps from his longtime partner in crime, David McPhail. After appearing together on breakthrough comedy show A Week of It, the two helped form the comic backbone of the long-running McPhail & Gadsby, satirical show Issues, and the outdoor escapades of Letter to Blanchy. 

We spoke the same language. We shared the same nods and raised eyebrows. Jon Gadsby's comic partner David McPhail, in his 2010 autobiography The Years Before My Death