Well, Murray, have a gander at an appearance he made on Jim Mora’s show earlier this year…
“After a comedy show, one is often mobbed by the ladies” Angry boyfriends target Tall Poppy Andrew Clay The Panel, Radio NZ National, Thursday 28 April 2013 Jim Mora, Andrew Clay, Lisa Scott
Andrew Clay is a comedian, who a couple of years ago was paid to go to Afghanistan, ostensibly to entertain New Zealand’s occupation troops, but in fact to ensure he never again uttered a critical word about government policy. His comedic comrade MIKE KING was similarly co-opted, and even made a ridiculous television program about his trip. Clay likes to say he is a liberal, but every time he appears on The Panel he manages to froth and rave against such irritating trivialities as prisoners’ rights, or even human rights in general. Maybe he’s been out drinking with soldiers too often….
JIM MORA: We start with the very sad story of Jesse Ryder, who is in an induced coma after a very bad assault in Christchurch early this morning.
ANDREW CLAY: This is where I STOP being a liberal! I don’t CARE about the human rights of people who do this! Part of me just wants to HURT the people who did this to Jesse Ryder! Now I know I shouldn’t say that, but that’s the way I feel.
MORA: Mmmm, mmmm.
LISA SCOTT: Mmmmm.
ANDREW CLAY: We shouldn’t talk like that about people but….
LISA SCOTT: It’s okay for scum.
JIM MORA: Hmmmmmm…. We have this ugly thing in the New Zealand male psyche that makes us pick fights with sports stars, don’t we.
LISA SCOTT: It’s the Tall Poppy syndrome isn’t it.
ANDREW CLAY: It sure is. I’ve experienced it myself. After a comedy show, one is often mobbed by the ladies, and I have more than once felt the angry looks of male punters. Although I’ve never actually been assaulted, I’ve felt in imminent danger on several occasions and had to walk away. It’s the Tall Poppy syndrome.
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More mediocrities…. No. 8: Ed Sheeran “I See Dire” http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-071113/#comment-723312 No. 7: Paul Little: [Russell Brand] is “petulant, ungracious and unfunny” and a “cut-rate Chomsky”. No. 6: David Farrar: “Things were generally very relaxed in this area.” No. 5: Jordan Williams: ““Capping rents seems like a recipe for disaster.” No. 4: Prof. Robert Patman: “Hezbollah is totally a creature of the Iranian regime.” No. 3: Jeremy Wells: “What evidence is there that secondhand smoking does any harm? Where is the evidence? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?” No. 2: Gavin Gray: “…never been any problems associated with the name King George.” No. 1: Susie Ferguson: “If, as you say, this has all been done before, why do it all again?”
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I remember seeing Mike King in Timor Leste, teaching young kids to say “Aussie wanker”. It was cringeworthy stuff.
“After a comedy show, one is often mobbed by the ladies…”
Mediocrity Watch No. 9: ANDREW CLAY
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-03122013-2/#comment-738655
Angry boyfriends target Tall Poppy Andrew Clay
The Panel, Radio NZ National, Thursday 28 April 2013
Jim Mora, Andrew Clay, Lisa Scott
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-28032013/#comment-611053
No. 8: Ed Sheeran “I See Dire”
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-071113/#comment-723312
No. 7: Paul Little: [Russell Brand] is “petulant, ungracious and unfunny” and a “cut-rate Chomsky”.
No. 6: David Farrar: “Things were generally very relaxed in this area.”
No. 5: Jordan Williams: ““Capping rents seems like a recipe for disaster.”
No. 4: Prof. Robert Patman: “Hezbollah is totally a creature of the Iranian regime.”
No. 3: Jeremy Wells: “What evidence is there that secondhand smoking does any harm? Where is the evidence? WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?”
No. 2: Gavin Gray: “…never been any problems associated with the name King George.”
No. 1: Susie Ferguson: “If, as you say, this has all been done before, why do it all again?”