Rose Matafeo
- 32 years old
- From New Zealand
- Actor, writer, stand-up comedian and director
Press clippings Page 15
London comedy shows: Best stand-up comedy of the year
It has been yet another stellar year of laughs and, oh boy, have we needed them.
Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard, 6th December 2018Rose Matafeo's Comedy Central roast labelled 'racist'
Celebrated New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo's appearance in a roast battle on Comedy Central UK this week has been marred by a racist controversy.
Daniel Rutledge, News Hub (New Zealand), 9th October 2018Rose Matafeo interview
"Being called the voice of millennials gave me massive imposter syndrome"
Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 26th September 2018Comedy Awards prove that proper humour is back
In recent years, the ECAs have prompted grumbling in some quarters for praising important but challenging work over shows with mainstream appeal.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 26th August 2018Why Rose Matafeo winning is such a huge deal
Last night Rose Matafeo won the Edinburgh Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, one of the most prestigious awards for comedians anywhere. Here's why that matters.
Sam Brooks, The Spin Off (New Zealand), 26th August 2018Edinburgh Comedy Award winners 2018
Rose Matafeo has won the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018. Ciarán Dowd was named Best Newcomer, and the Panel Prize went to Angela Barnes.
British Comedy Guide, 25th August 2018Award champ Rose Matafeo's Horndog is a comedy smash
The Kiwi standup thoroughly deserves her success with an uproarious, emotionally intimate and feminist show.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 25th August 2018There's comedy in everything
It's Thursday morning and seven comedians have walked into a bar. It should be the cue for a joke but over the next hour or so all of them seem lost in the excitement surrounding the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Mike Wade, The Times, 25th August 2018Funny women on the Fringe podcasts: Rose Matafeo
Funny Women were backstage at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards to chat to a very happy Rose Matafeo, the first person of colour and the first Kiwi to ever win the prestigious prize! Congratulations Rose! with Becky Sing.
Becky Singh, Funny Women, 25th August 2018Weekend: Edinburgh Award shortlister Rose Matafeo
Somewhere in the bowels of YouTube there's footage of a nerdy 16-year-old Rose Matafeo doing her first stand-up set.
Ashley Davies, Metro, 24th August 2018