Funny Business - Excerpts

A selection of sketches from this award-winning skit based comedy series featuring Willy de Wit, Ian Harcourt, Peter Murphy and Dean Butler (with occasional animation by Chris Knox). The Hoons display their all of their charm and tact at the beach — but cruising for action (in a car truly worthy of them) results in a heated confrontation with one of their rivals. The classic Norman the Mormon also features, alternative Dunedin bands of the 1980s are lampooned and Lucy Lawless makes her TV debut in an ad spoof that anticipates her future role in Spartacus.

There are elements of undergraduate humour in the sketches and musical send-ups, but they can also switch from outright puerility to witty sophistication in a single beat.

– Finlay MacDonald in a Listener review, 11 March 1991

Key Cast & Crew

Ian Harcourt

Writer, As: Various roles

Willy de Wit

Writer, As: Various roles

Dean Butler

Writer, As: Various roles

Tony Holden

Producer, Director

James Griffin

Writer

Lucy Lawless

As: Various roles