Silly studies fuel Carlson’s show

Some things just blow comedian Urzila Carlson’s mind and in her new comedy show Studies Have Shown she is putting them on the stage.

Carlson said for her latest tour she got to thinking about ‘‘just how ridiculous some of the research studies that are done are’’.

‘‘Millions of dollars and years of people’s lives are spent dedicated to questions that you could literally ask in a pub.

‘‘Did you know they did a study on the effects of cocaine on a bee? Hang on a minute, don’t we have a problem with bees dying out? And who has that amount of coke lying around that they can just go ‘I’ll just put another line here for a bee that’s trapped in the window?’’

The South-african comedian has been on the New Zealand comedy circuit since 2008 after she was cast in TV3’S panel show 7 Days. Her tour comes to Palmerston North’s Regent on Broadway on June 23.

‘‘People say, ‘so what’s your comedy persona?’ and I’m like ‘I don’t have one’. My wife says I’m the same. When I ask her if I am different on stage, she says I’m just louder. So now I’m trying to introduce that at home, like having a microphone all the time, but the family aren’t into it.’’

Carlson said she her comedy acts were driven by the things that popped into her head.

‘‘I say to my wife I could never cheat, because I am full disclosure about everything. As soon as I get home I tell her everything that has happened, so I’m like ‘you will not believe what happened today’, I just tell her everything. And I’m like that on stage, too.’’

Carlson has two children that come with her on tour. ‘‘I love touring. Me and my wife, we have a nice system. We have had some horror flights with the kids, but we just have each other’s backs.’’