Rose Matafeo (2018): ComCompendium
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re delving into the archives and going back to episode 259 in 2018 with that year's Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Rose Matafeo! We discuss:
- how she ensured her hilarious material about female sexuality in Horndog brought the whole room along with it
- how she's actively mining for hot takes
- and why she has a quintuple-threat approach to performance
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the show. This week we are delving back into the archives and going back to episode 259 in 2018. |
| 0:25.8 | Who can remember that long? With that year's Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Rose Matafayo, someone who went on to be that year's Edinburgh Comedy Award winner. |
| 0:34.3 | Rose and I will discuss how she in short this and this, remember, this is Rose |
| 0:38.3 | before she went absolutely gangbusters profile-wise. So really interesting to listen back and hear |
| 0:43.8 | where she was at the time. We'll talk about how she insured her material about female sexuality |
| 0:50.2 | in that year's show Horn Dog brought the whole room along with it. We talk about how she's actively mining for hot takes. God, this takes me back. |
| 0:58.4 | And why she has a quintuple threat approach to performance. |
| 1:01.5 | And let's not forget, that all worked out, didn't it? |
| 1:04.7 | So from all the way back in 2018, here is Rose Matafayo. |
| 1:12.7 | How's the show going? |
| 1:14.6 | The show is going fine, yeah. |
| 1:16.8 | It's really fun. |
| 1:19.6 | It's a show that like, obviously I did it in Melbourne and New Zealand, but I always go to |
| 1:25.7 | Melbourne with what is definitely a work in progress. |
| 1:29.9 | Like I do one preview of what it's going to be before I go to Melbourne. |
| 1:34.7 | And then Melbourne is sort of this hellish month of rewriting every day. |
| 1:39.5 | So you have no fun in Melbourne. |
| 1:41.0 | You just work. |
| 1:41.5 | I really, it's so hard because Melbourne is such an amazing place and all my friends |
| 1:46.1 | are there and I get to do improv at the same time, you know, now the show. |
| 1:49.6 | But that, no, it is hell. |
| 1:53.0 | It's so hard. |
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