Rose Matafeo is a famous New Zealand comedian, actress and television presenter. She was a writer and performer on the New Zealand late night comedy sketch Funny Girls. In 2018, she won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show Horndog.
As her star grew on both sides of the Atlantic, Matafeo was praised for her trademark riffs on unhappy relationships, sexual inexperience and obsessive interests. Her style is self-critical without cynicism, she is cunning, generous and passionately attractive, and also constantly uses that age-old premise: fear. In Horndog, Matafeo explored her insecurity about kissing “almost 10” men in her life, while her response to her 23-year fear of death was to hold her funeral at music festivals. comedy from around the world.
Who is Rosa Matafeo?
Matafeo grew up in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand and attended AUCKLAND Primary School for Girls, where she was headmistress. She has two older brothers.
His father is Samoan and his mother is of Scottish and Croatian descent. His Rastafarian parents and Matafeo described him as “a pretty laid-back upbringing.”
Who is James Acaster?
James is an English comedian.
Acaster has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for several years running and has been nominated for best show five times.
He won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Best Show in 2019 with Cold Lasagna, 1999’s Self Hate and won four Chortle Awards.
He has appeared on several shows including Mock the Week, Taskmaster, 8 Out of 10 Cats, and Would I Lie to You?
Relationship between Rose Matafeo and James Acaster
Matafeo lives part time in London. When she first moved to the UK in 2015, she briefly shared an apartment in Shepherd’s Bush with comedian Nish Kumar before moving in with his then-boyfriend, comedian James Custer. Comedian and future Taskmaster student Richard Herring lived in the house behind her at the time.
Matafeo was in a relationship with Acaster from 2014 to 2017, which he mentions on his HBO Max Horndog special.
He is a fan of Burt Bacharach and has named his cat “Burt Bachakat” after him.
