Rhys Mathewson - Rhyspect

Billy T Award nominee and New Zealand’s youngest professional comedian, Rhys Mathewson returns after last years award winning sell out show 'The Best $18 You’ll Ever Spend'.

You would think he would be feeling some pressure, but no, Rhys has it all sorted.

It’s a story of self-respect lost and then regained by way of a coke bottle, some furious list-making abilities and a trip to the other side of the world. It’s really funny too. Think of Top Gun mixed with Forrest Gump with the songs from Saturday Night Fever played over the top. That’s not what the show is about, but how cool would that be? Almost as cool as Rhys Mathewson, who thinks it makes him more of a man when he cries at Disney movies.

At only 19 Mathewson is one of the brightest up and coming comedians and being at the forefront of the newest generation of kiwi comics, he is ready to impress at this year’s Festival.

Rhys is truly a product of the New Zealand International Comedy Festival starting out as a member of the Festival’s “Class Comedians” programme in 2006, working up to the RAW comedy competitions, and having performed in two previous Festivals, Rhys has now been nominated for the prestigious Billy T Award.

With 4 years of comedy experience under his belt and many achievements to his name, such as appearing on both Campbell Live and Close Up, opening for kiwi comedy titans Brendhan Lovegrove and Dai Henwood in the thriving international metropolis of Hamilton, and In 2009 Rhys took off to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he was invited to share the stage with UK comedy great, and NZ Festival favourite, Phil Nichol.

Rhys is fondly known to his comedy elders as “King of the Chumps,” and is definitely the one to watch this year.

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