Happiness is... being effective on stage
Comedian David Correos talks to Mike Alexander about his life.
AFTER winning the 2016 Billy T Award, comedian David Correos has gone from strength to strength.
In 2017 he performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, alongside fellow New Zealand comic Matt Stellingwerf.
Correos is returning to Edinburgh, and by the time he does, he will already have performed at Fringe Festivals in Dunedin, Auckland and Adelaide. The Correos Effect, my New Zealand International Comedy Festival show. When I’m doing something really grim on stage but the whole audience is loving it. A comic called Edd Hedges. Check him out. I admire everything about him. I can’t even do it justice how much I love that guy. I have too many. One time I flew to Melbourne for a girl, realised it wasn’t a thing and then got drunk at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and embarrassed myself in front of everyone.
I wasn’t performing at the festival, so I also had no business being there. Still makes me cringe. My phone, I’m addicted to it. I’m addicted to social media.
Please follow me on Instagram, I need more followers – @debid.correos. In 2012 I went to a salsa night with my ex and I didn’t know how to dance. Everyone – including her – was so good. I felt very useless that night. Nice solid chairs. I’d go back to 2006 and tell my younger self to start learning how to salsa dance because it would be very important in the future. That would give me a good six years of prep. Wash your face first before everything else when you’re having a shower. I’d love to be part of an entourage for a DJ or rapper. Pay me to hype you all day long. I can do that.
‘ I’d go back to 2006 and tell my younger self to start learning how to salsa dance because it would be very important in the future. That would give me a good six years of prep. ’ COMEDIAN DAVID CORREOS
Know the outcome of every sports event in the future. Be friends with Diplo. Have 10 million followers on Instagram – @debid.correos. ● David Correos performs The Correos Effect at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in May.