Tom Scott

Catapulted to fame after tousles with Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, Tom Scott originally planned to be a vet. In 1986 the celebrated cartoonist and humourist helped turn Footrot Flats into a hit movie. Since then he has chronicled legends Edmund Hillary and David Lange in documentaries and dramas, and co-written Springbok tour tale Rage, black comedy Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, and political satire Spin Doctors. 

Playwriting and screenwriting, there's no great secret to it. Cartooning is hard. But writing drama, at least in my case, anyway, I found it something that I really enjoy doing ... so I'm now thinking, late in life, in my autumn years, that maybe I should just really do what I enjoy most. And, that's be a dramatist. Tom Scott, in his extended interview for 2019 TV series Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy