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Chris Parker (comedian)
Christopher Parker (born September 25, 1990) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, writer, TV personality, and podcaster. Parker has written for and appeared in many local comedy shows such as '' Jono and Ben'', '' 7 Days'', ''Taskmaster NZ'', and '' Have You Been Paying Attention''. He has also acted in films like '' Baby Done'', ''The Breaker Uppers'', and '' Nude Tuesday''. Early life and education Parker grew up in Christchurch wanting to be a dancer while he was growing up. He spent ten years at the Christchurch-based Original Scripts Theatre School with teachers Wendy Steeds and Sonia Chappell. He studied at the New Zealand national drama school, Toi Whakaari in Wellington, graduating in 2011 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Acting. Career After moving to Auckland, he joined improv group Snort, which led to being cast as David Halls in the hit stage play '' Hudson and Halls Live''. In 2016, he won Actor of the Year at the Wellington Theatre Awards for this role. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Te Papa
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. ''Te Papa Tongarewa'' translates literally to "container of treasures" or in full "container of treasured things and people that spring from mother Earth here in New Zealand". Usually known as Te Papa ( Māori for " the treasure box"), it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery. An average of more than 1.5 million people visit every year, making it the 17th-most-visited art gallery in the world. Te Papa's philosophy emphasises the living face behind its cultural treasures, many of which retain deep ancestral links to the indigenous Māori people. History Colonial Museum The first predecessor to Te Papa was the ''Colonial Museum'', founded in 1865, with Sir James Hector as founding director. The Museum was built on Museum Street, roughly in the location of the present day Defence House Office Building. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Williams (comedian)
Paul Anthony Williams (born 7 August 1992) is a New Zealand comedian and musician. Williams plays the role of Taskmaster's assistant on the New Zealand version of the international television series ''Taskmaster'', and is one of the show's principal writers. He was nominated for the 2017 Billy T Award for up-and-coming New Zealand comedians for his stand-up comedy. Early life Williams grew up in Nelson, New Zealand, with his parents Gary and Roseanne, and his two siblings, including comedian brother Guy. He was educated at Nelson College. He performed leading roles in musical theatre with The Nelson Youth Theatre Company, and published comedy raps with music videos on YouTube. Williams studied musical theatre at Whitireia Performance Centre in Wellington, and at the end of 2013 moved to Auckland. Career Comedy Williams' comedy show “Summertime Love”, presented as a mock dating seminar, went on tour through New Zealand and to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Melbourn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Snedden
Alice Snedden is a New Zealand stand-up comedian, television writer and actress. First working as a writer on New Zealand comedy shows such as ''Funny Girls'', ''Jono and Ben'' and '' 7 Days'', Snedden created the serie''Alice Snedden's Bad News'' a documentary-comedy series written by and starring herself. In 2021, she co-wrote the BBC comedy series '' Starstruck'' alongside Rose Matafeo, who co-wrote and starred in the production. Early life Snedden grew up in Auckland, the youngest of five children in a Catholic family. Her father Patrick Snedden ran a publishing company, and since has had positions including the chairman of The Big Idea, Housing New Zealand Corporation, Auckland District Health Board and director of the Ports of Auckland. Snedden comes from an extended family of professional cricket players, including Warwick Snedden, Nessie Snedden, Colin Snedden, Martin Snedden and Michael Snedden. Snedden attended the University of Otago, first studying physical educ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three (TV Channel)
Three ( mi, Toru), stylized as +HR=E, is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013. Three is a general entertainment channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, with a significant news and current affairs element under the banner of Newshub. Three carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time. History Establishment Applications to apply for a warrant to operate New Zealand's third national television network opened in 1985. The Broadcasting Tribunal announced in 1987 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee
''Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee'' is a New Zealand television comedy panel show on Three created and presented by Guy Montgomery and co-hosted by Sanjay Patel. The show is loosely based on a spelling bee: each episode, four comedians participate in a series of rounds, where the goal is almost always to spell words or names in rounds that are "designed to be infuriating to take part in and entertaining to watch". The winner of each episode competes again the following week, and the loser of each episode must wear a dunce cap in the Dunce's Corner. The first series of ''Guy Mont-Spelling Bee'' aired in 2023, and a second series has been ordered. Background and production Guy Montgomery, inspired by the Scripps National Spelling Bee, began hosting spelling bees with other comedians over Zoom and broadcast live on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the success of those games, Montgomery developed the concept into a show at the Melbourne International Comedy Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornography
Pornography (often shortened to porn or porno) is the portrayal of sexual subject matter for the exclusive purpose of sexual arousal. Primarily intended for adults,"Kids Need Porn Literacy" – Marty Klein, ''Psychology Today'', 30 October 2016 pornography is presented in a variety of media, including magazines, art, , |
The Spinoff
''The Spinoff'' is a New Zealand online magazine and news website that was founded in 2014. It is known for current affairs coverage, political and social analysis, and cultural commentary. It earns money through commercial sponsorship and subscriptions. Journalist Duncan Greive is its founder, publisher and chief executive officer. The business is owned by Grieve and his wife Nicola, a lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office. Business model and content ''The Spinoff'' began as a TV blog sponsored by the streaming platform Lightbox: it has expanded to a multi-platform news site that also publishes current affairs newsletters, podcasts and online video series. 'Spinoff Members', offering a range of benefits to subscribers, was launched in 2019. ''The Spinoff'' and the ''New Zealand Herald'' started sharing journalism and content in July 2020. “Our business model is partnership and sponsorship and we make it clear when our content is funded in that way. When our journalists ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-sex Education
Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools. The practice of single-sex schooling was common before the 20th century, particularly in secondary and higher education. Single-sex education is practiced in many parts of the world based on tradition and religion; recently, there has been a surge of interest and the establishment of single-sex schools due to educational research. Single-sex education is most popular in English-speaking countries (regions) such as Singapore, Malaysia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa and Australia; also in Chile, Israel, South Korea and in many Muslim majority countries.C. Riordan (2011). The Value of Single Sex Education: Twenty Five Years of High Quality Research, Third International Congress of the European Association for Single Sex Education, Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception hat remainsa practice without clear boundaries". Early documentary films, originally called " actuality films", lasted one minute or less. Over time, documentaries have evolved to become longer in length, and to include more categories. Some examples are educational, observational and docufiction. Documentaries are very informative, and are often used within schools as a resource to teach various principles. Documentary filmmakers have a responsibility to be truthful to their vision of the world without intentionally misrepresenting a topic. Social-media platforms (such as YouTube) have provided an avenue for the growth of the documentary- film genre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intersex
Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". Sex assignment at birth usually aligns with a child's anatomical sex and phenotype. The number of births with ambiguous genitals is in the range of 1:2000–1:4500 (0.022%–0.05%). Other conditions involve atypical chromosomes, gonads, or hormones. Some persons may be assigned and raised as a girl or boy but then identify with another gender later in life, while most continue to identify with their assigned sex. The number of births where the baby is intersex has been reported differently depending on who reports and which definition of intersex is used. Anne Fausto-Sterling and her co-authors suggest that the prevalence of "nondimorphic sexual development" might be as high as 1.7%. A study publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takatāpui
''Takatāpui'' (also spelled ''takataapui'') is a Te Reo Māori (Māori language) term, which is used in a similar way to LGBTQI+. ''Takatāpui'' can also refer to an individual who is SOGIE diverse. When speaking te reo Māori, LGBTQI+ people of any culture are referred to as Takatāpui. In English, a takatāpui person is a Māori individual who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT).Hutchings, 7-13. Traditionally, ''Takatāpui'' referred to a devoted partner of the same sex.Sears, 592-3. In contemporary use'', Takatāpui'' is used in response to the Western construction of "sexuality, gender, and corresponding identity expressions" (gender identity and sexual identity). Māori gender identifiers (wāhine, tāne) and gender rolesmarae protocols, participation in warfare, delineated male and female modes of dress and placement of Tā mokoexisted prior to and outside of Western influence. The term ''Takatāpui'' encompasses not only aspects of sexuality but also cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
